DBT SKILLS TRAINING
DBT Skills are empirically supported strategies to help a variety of clients enhance their capabilities to build a life worth living. They are a core component of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), the evidence-based treatment for BPD, co-occurring disorders, as well as multi-problem and high risk clients. This training is geared towards teaching psychologists and mental health providers how to apply DBT Skills: Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Walking the Middle Path, a fifth component of DBT used with adolescents. In addition, you will learn how to use Validation Skills to help keep your clients committed to the therapeutic process along with how to do Chain Analysis of behaviors so that you and your client can identify behavioral patterns and identify the DBT skills that will help promote change. This training will be conducted in an interactive learning environment using lecture, video, examples and exercises to illustrate teaching points.
May 30 – 31, 2014
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (registration at 8:30 AM)
Registration Online
Fax to (800) 219-5205 (Print Brochure)
Who Should Attend
Psychologist and other mental health professionals in clinical, private practice, or school settings. This DBT Skills Training is appropriate for professionals working with clients who have Borderline Personality Disorder, have multi-problems, are high risk, who struggle with managing emotions.
Material Recommended (not included)
Linehan, M.M. (1993). Skills training manual for treating borderline personality disorder. New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Day 1
8:30 am Registration
9:00 am* Objectives 1 – 3
12:00 Lunch on your own
1:00 pm* Objectives 4 – 6
5:00 pm End of Day
* 15 minute break
Day 2
8:30 am Registration
9:00 am* Objectives 7– 9
12:00 Lunch on your own
1:00 pm* Objectives 10 – 12
5:00 pm End of Day
* 15 minute break
Course Objectives
Dialectical Behavior Therapy is one of the most recognized and sought after therapies in treatment for borderline personality disorder, multi-problem and high risk clients. DBT is an empirically based treatment and this training will prepare psychologists and other mental health providers to: (1) increase competency in treating clients, (2) describe and teach DBT Skills in their respective settings, and (3) discuss current research.
This training is designed to help you:
1. Apply a working knowledge of how skills training fits into the comprehensive treatment of DBT
2. Explain dialectic dilemmas and their application in therapy
3. Describe Core Mindfulness Skills
4. Use Mindfulness Skills in professional setting and daily life
5. Demonstrate and teach Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills to your clients
6. Utilize Distress Tolerance Skills and problem solve clients’ reluctance to use the skill
7. Use Emotion Regulation Skills to help your clients better regulate their emotions
8. Define and apply Validation Skills
9. Apply Walking the Middle Path Skills with adolescents and their parents
10. Prepare a Chain Analysis of behaviors using six steps
11. Use teaching strategies for skills training with children and adolescents
12. Summarize skills coaching and the rationale for implementing it into your practice
Registration Online
Fax to (800) 219-5205 (Print Brochure)
$85 – Friday, May 30, 2014 and *CE’s $25
$85 – Saturday, May 31, 2014 and *CE’s $25
$150 – Both Days and *CE’s $50
Snacks and beverages included. Lunch on your own.
*13 CE’s (6.5 per day)
The Association for Contextual Behavioral Science is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Association for Contextual Behavioral Science maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
APA CE rules require that we only issue credits to those who attend the entire workshop. Those arriving more than 15 minutes late or leaving before the entire workshop is completed will not receive CE credits.
LCSW Credits: ACBS is an approved provider of continuing education for MFCCs and/or LCSWs by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, provider #PCE 4653. ABCS understanding is that the licensing agency in the state of Michigan for LCSWs will accept LCSW credits from other states’ sponsored CE events. However, you will need to verify that their licensing agency will accept these types of credits (California BBS credits) if they are a LCSW.
