Simple DBT Skills Diary Card

Its really dope that people are creating more accessible therapy techniques! This app is great.

These are the closest to accessible DBT apps I have found as a totally blind person who is also hearing impaired and uses braille, and Voiceover. (Despite the accessibility issues which make some features pretty much unusable, I went ahead and purchased the bundle to support the developer and their work, and hopefully be able to help myself further in future.) I would love to work with the developer to make them more accessible if they are willing, but I tried to reach out, and the email was returned as undeliverable. I hope I can come back and rate this five stars once the accessibility issues are addressed, and these already wonderful DBT apps are made easily usable by all. Thank you so much for your work, your apps, and your understanding. You have made a lot of progress where other app developers have not, and it is greatly appreciated as a blind person needing DBT. Thank you!

Is the developer no longer updating and keeping up with this app? Seems like things are 3+ years old

Thank you. This helps me a lot.

The app is great. You might want to run these cards and examples through a spell checker. There are a lot of errors. I would like to use this professionally for my clients and have a hard time referring them to something simple when simple spelling cannot be addressed.

TL/DR: I cannot recommend this app for anyone who is in therapy and/or at-risk of harm to themselves or others. Users are unable to self-report self-harm, SI, substance use, unhealthy eating, or otherwise acting out. All entries are only Yes/No with no options for 0-5 or 0-7 interval ratings of skills, emotions, or distress tolerance. I really liked this app when I first began looking for a DBT diary card. The free version was fairly intuitive and use immediately. It has some nice mindfulness pieces incorporated, and there would be no more paperwork for myself or my Care Team. I could complete my entries and simply email them before my sessions. However, my Therapist suggested at my first session that I may want to consider migrating away from this app. Which I did. It does not capture any self-reporting of Target Behaviors for self-harm, SI, substance use, gambling, unhealthy eating, etc. And it doesn’t have the ability to add them, even if you purchase the additional modules. It actually made me feel unsafe that such a crucial part of my recovery—one that’s on every DBT diary card I’ve ever seen—was missing. It would seem like those risks would be the part to structure an app around, so I’m disappointed the developers didn’t include it. It’s as if there were no involvement or oversight from mental health professionals, or the developers were worried about safeguarding themselves. Either way, this is not an appropriate app for people who are at-risk. Ironically, the other missing piece is that all of the self-reporting that is available has a simple Yes/No response. This is an appropriate input for those missing Target Behaviors that were just mentioned, but the more accepted approach is a 0-7 and 0-5 ranking. My Therapist and I have no way of seeing whether I am unwilling, unable, or moving towards mastery of skills, or the strength of any emotions or distress I am experiencing. This is another significant gap for successful recovery. There are some useful parts to app and why I have kept it. The first is the 28 Skills Overview. Each has a definition that differs from Linehan, so I had an increased understanding of them. They also have a short scenario of what they might look like in actual practice, which I also found valuable. Finally, there is a Chain Analysis portion which I haven’t seen on other apps. I also haven’t had the opportunity to use it, so I can’t rate its suitability or if it’s flexible enough. This seems like an activity th

Works well. Stick with it! Reinforces the concepts well by usjj in bc the app you commit more to memory

I love the app

I keep coming back to this app and remarking how wonderful it is. My daughter asks me why I ever quit using it. I have to wonder why? Here I go again! And I am back! For many years I have used this app. Today I was able to recommend it in a group! Love this bundle☮️❤️🙂

I keep coming back to this app and remarking how wonderful it is. My daughter asks me why I ever quit using it. I have to wonder why? Here I go again!