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Dialectical Behavior Therapy Certification Training

Dialectical Behavior Therapy is a powerful, evidence-based treatment that allows clinicians to provide positive outcomes for clients of all ages struggling with stress, depression, trauma, suicidal and self-destructive behaviors and a variety of other clinical presentations.

This 3-day Certification Training will build the core competencies you need to bring DBT into your clinical practice and effectively use it with a wide range of client types. In this 21-hour recording, you’ll be given a roadmap to treat individuals using the skills and techniques from DBT so you can help your most challenging clients reach new levels of healing.

Even if you’ve completed other Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) trainings, this program will increase your competency and clinical sophistication with DBT when working with adults, youth, substance users and trauma survivors in a wide variety of settings.

Best of all, this training meets the educational requirements when applying to become Certified in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (C-DBT) through Evergreen Certifications. Certification lets colleagues, employers, and clients know that you’ve invested the extra time and effort necessary to understand the complexities of using DBT in counselling. Professional and clinical experience standards apply. Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/cdbt to get started!

*We partner with Evergreen Certifications to include certification with some of our products. When you purchase such a product we may disclose your information to Evergreen Certifications for purposes of providing services directly to you or to contact you regarding relevant offers.

Purchase today and get the skills and confidence you need to successfully help your clients with the power of DBT!

PESI, Evergreen Certification Institute, and Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, are not affiliated or associated with Marsha M. Linehan, PhD, ABPP, or her organizations.

Program Information

Objectives

Appraise the origins of Biosocial Theory and communicate the clinical implications of the theory.
Specify how DBT skills can help clients identify unhealthy interaction styles.
Characterize how mindfulness skills can empower clients to interpret situations in new ways and react in healthier ways.
Communicate how clinicians can effectively teach DBT skills and encourage support and constructive feedback in a group setting.
Distinguish ways in which clinicians can maximize client buy-in for DBT homework assignments.
Determine how interpersonal skills training can be used with clients to improve relationships.
Specify how DBT skills can be used to decrease the likelihood of compassion fatigue in clinicians.
Characterize how DBT skills can be utilized to identify and overcome obstacles to changing emotions and reactive behaviours.
Theorize ways in which DBT can be adapted for working with children and adolescents.
Provide a brief explanation of how DBT can be used in working with trauma survivors.
Establish how diary cards can be used by clients to monitor their emotions and track how they are using DBT skills to deal with challenges.
Specify how a chain analysis can be effectively utilized with clients to help them gain insight into how they can change problem behaviours.
Determine how opposite action strategies can be used by clients to reduce self-destructive urges.
Support how interpersonal effectiveness exercises can be employed in therapy to help clients keep relationship without sacrificing their self-respect.
Assess how a pros and cons list can help clients see the consequences of their actions and make better choices when they are faced with a difficult decision.
Employ strategies to confront therapy interfering behaviours and help clients overcome avoidance.
Articulate how Dialectical Behaviour Therapy interventions can help clients foster radical acceptance of traumatic events and reduce feelings of shame, guilt and fear.
Specify how the STOP skills can help clients to manage crisis situations and prevent them from doing something impulsive they might regret later.
Determine how clinicians can use the levels of validation to enhance the therapeutic alliance and teach clients to validate themselves.
Demonstrate how DBT skills can be used with clients to reduce self-harm and suicidal behaviours.
Characterize how clinicians can help develop a client’s Wise Mind state so they can be more aware of less impulsive in their actions.

Outline

Foundations of DBT

Biosocial Theory
Characteristics of DBT
DBT as an evidence-based practice
Dialectics: the balance of acceptance and change

DBT in the Clinical Setting

Application of DBT in the individual and group therapy setting
Skills training methods
Validation strategies
Research and limitations

DBT Skills Training

Mindfulness: Cultivate the Skills at the Core of Successful DBT Therapy

Acceptance vs. judgement
Wise mind – achieve harmony between emotion and reason
Accessible exercises for building mindfulness skills
- Observation – keep clients calm, centred and aware
- Describe – overcome assumptions
- Participation – release judgement and fear
Strategies for teaching mindfully and exercises for therapy

Interpersonal Effectiveness: Skills to Build Better Relationships and Lives

Tools to identify strengths
Balancing relationships with self-respect
Exercises and role play guidance on how to:
- Develop healthy assertiveness skills
- Enhance conflict resolution skills
- Build empathy
- Keep problems from building up
- Resist pressure
Top strategies for changing behaviour

Emotion Regulation: Practical Skills for Healthier Emotions and Greater Resilience

Strong emotions and poor coping skills
How to change unwanted emotions
Reduce emotional vulnerability while practising self-care
Opposite action skills to reduce maladaptive behaviour
Emotion Regulation exercises
Self-soothing strategies that work
Learn the sleep hygiene protocol

Distress Tolerance: Skills to Cope with Painful Moments and Survive Crisis

Developing crisis survival and reality acceptance skills
4 options to solving problems
Problem solving case studies
Using pros and cons to make decisions
STOP skills to manage crisis situations
The steps to practising radical acceptance
Tools to accept change

DBT in Clinical Practice

Analyzing behaviours; chain analysis & missing links analysis
Diary cards and homework with clients
Identify therapy interfering behaviours
Develop skills to identify and manage self-harming & suicidal behaviours

Self-Harm and Suicidal Crises: A Roadmap for Assessment and Intervention

Screening and assessment tools for self-harming behaviours
Interventions and treatment considerations for the self-harming population
Suicide risk as a skills deficit problem
Tools and techniques to assess for level of risk
Firearms, medications, and lethal-means restriction plans that work
Safety plans and crisis intervention

Adapt DBT with Different Populations

Children and adolescents
Trauma survivors
Substance abusers

DBT: The Therapist and Consultation Group

3 ways to decrease therapist burnout
The characteristics of an effective DBT team
Integrating DBT into your practice

Copyright : 19/04/2021

Adapting Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Everyday Clinical Needs

The Game-Changing Guide to Integrating DBT in Your Practice

For clients who struggle to regulate and cope with their emotions, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) can bring about lasting behavioral change – even if they aren’t diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. Learn to adapt DBT to meet the needs of your practice and advance your clients’ treatment goals across a wide spectrum of behavioral health conditions. This recording will teach you to direct growth in each of the DBT skill areas (emotion regulation, mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, and distress tolerance) and guide efforts in moment-to-moment resilience and non-reactivity.

Led by Dr. Andrew Bein, a seasoned instructor with an energetic, hands-on approach to education, you will quickly master strategies for enhancing motivation and strengthening client engagement, as well as explaining the theory and science of DBT accessibly to clients. By the end of the recording, you will have the tools necessary to integrate DBT immediately into your practice and help your clients finally take control of their emotions and their lives.

Program Information

Objectives

Utilize the four skill modules and skill-based strategies for regulating emotions and maintaining safety in a clinical setting.
Adapt DBT for a range of patient and clinical needs in any setting as it relates to clinical Treatment.
Apply clinical interventions that reinforce DBT skills to improve client level of functioning.
Design successful logging methods and “homework” for purposes of client psychoeducation.
Demonstrate use-of-self competence to enhance DBT effectiveness and put to practical use in-session.
Integrate DBT principles into clinical practice in conjunction with other interventions.

Outline

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Dialectics
DBT vs. CBT
DBT in individual therapy
DBT in group therapy
Hierarchical skill instruction
Supporting research
Limitations of practice and risk

The Four Modules Of DBT Skills

Mindfulness
Distress tolerance
Emotion regulation
Interpersonal effectiveness

Foundations For Powerful Client Interventions

Describe DBT principles and neuroscience accessibly to clients
Unify concepts
Build upon and refine concepts and skills session-to-session
Flatten the clinician-client hierarchy
Connect with client trauma
Enhance internal motivation
Strengthen skilful response and personal resilience

The Client’s Wise Mind Process

Intention
Acceptance and culturally competent equivalents
Improve the moment for emotion regulation and safety
Expand the moment to strengthen connection
Cultivate self-compassion, an emotion regulation oasis
Use Wise Mind diagrams for clients

Key Client Exercises

Effectively teaching mindfulness exercises
Face emotions and thoughts, improving the moment
Deal with judgments
Deal with difficult times: distress tolerance plan
Expand the moment (inclusive “bigger picture” or spiritual strategies)
Work with client logs and assignments

Moving Beyond Theory: How To Integrate Principles In Your Practice

Applications for diverse clientele
Adapt DBT to your practice setting
Strategies for effectively incorporating DBT
DBT work side-by-side with other interventions
Maintain practitioner radical acceptance and mindfulness in the midst of emotional intensity
Discuss case scenarios

Please Note: PESI is not affiliated or associated with Marsha M. Linehan, PhD, ABPP, or her organizations.