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DBT Crash Course for Clinicians

DBT is one of today’s most in-demand treatments, trusted by countless clinicians to provide their clients with the skills they need to manage their emotions, overcome their distress, and create positive change.

Whether they’ve been diagnosed with trauma, anxiety, depression or any number of the conditions you see in your office each day, DBT empowers clients to navigate the challenges of everyday life and relationships so they can heal, grow, and achieve their goals.

And it’s all done from a skills-building perspective that moves you away from change-based models that can feel overwhelming or unattainable for clients.

Now you can take home over a dozen of the most powerful skill-building exercises from DBT in just one training.

Led by certified DBT therapist Lexi Mulee, LMHC, C-DBT, this training will equip you to start using the DBT techniques she’s found most effective in her own practice so you can:

  • Provide clients with the tools they need to better manage intense emotions
  • Show clients how they can accept distressing situations without judgment or resistance
  • Quickly build clients ability to cope in healthier ways
  • Give clients the skills they need to create positive emotional connections with others
  • Improve communication and boundary setting skills with clients
  • Rapidly interrupt clients’ self-defeating and self-sabotaging patterns
  • And much more!

Plus you’ll get printable worksheets that make it simple to start using these proven DBT exercises with clients right away.

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Program Information

Objectives

  1. Gain a comprehensive understanding of the origins and foundational concepts of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT).
  2. Develop an understanding of the neurobiology of emotional dysregulation and how DBT interventions can effectively address it.
  3. Discuss the effectiveness of DBT in reducing self-directed violence, including suicide attempts, non-suicidal self injury (NSSI), and accessing psychiatric crisis services.
  4. Apply validation strategies in DBT to enhance therapeutic rapport and promote positive change.
  5. Utilize mindfulness exercises for emotional regulation and symptom management in DBT practice.
  6. Evaluate the effectiveness of DBT with a diverse range of clients including individuals with substance use disorders, anxiety, and depression.

Outline

DBT Foundations and Fundamentals

  • Main goals and history as an evidencebased treatment
  • DBT practice components and the 4 modules of DBT
  • Balancing acceptance and change
  • Validation skills to build a therapeutic alliance
  • The effectiveness of DBT for clients with depression, anxiety, SUDs, and more
  • Realities of DBT for clinicians – potential benefits and drawbacks
  • DBT skills training for suicidal clients
  • Research, limitations, and treatment risks
  • Indications, contraindications, costs, and alternative treatments

DBT Mindfulness Techniques: Enhance Treatment through Client Awareness and Acceptance

  • “Wise mind” in decision making and problem solving
  • One Mindful: fully engage in the present moment without distraction
  • Pocket Mindfulness: brief exercises to manage stress and regulate emotions
  • Cultivating acceptance and letting go of self-judgment and criticism

5 DBT Techniques to Manage Distress and Shift Perspectives

  • Riding the Wave exercise to navigate emotional turbulence
  • Radical Acceptance of distressing situations without judgment or resistance
  • Using the STOP techniques to interrupt automatic patterns
  • How to teach clients to better manage intense emotions with the TIPP technique
  • Using ACCEPTS to help clients develop healthier coping skills

The DBT Toolkit for Emotional Regulation and Coping

  • The connection between emotions and physical sensations
  • Exercises to enhance emotional awareness and recognition
  • Opposite action skill to change emotional responses
  • Checking the facts skill to challenge emotional assumptions and biases

Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills for Better Communications and Boundary Setting

  • Emotional Bank Account - build and maintain positive emotional connections
  • Using the DEARMAN technique for effective communication
  • Assertive skills for saying “No” and setting boundaries
  • Using the Alternate Rebellion technique to help clients who struggle with oppositional behavior

Other Key Clinical Considerations: Skills Groups, Integration Strategies and Culturally Adapted Practices

  • Using DBT individually or with skills groups
  • Best practices in conducting culturally adapted DBT interventions
  • Integrating and prioritizing DBT skills into a provider’s treatment as usual

Case Studies and Demonstrations

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Art Therapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Psychologists
  • Psychotherapists
  • Case Managers
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 11/30/2023

Managing Suicidality with High-Crisis DBT Clients

This recording will provide practical techniques and skills to address suicidal urges and actions grounded in DBT principles. Come and learn how to manage emotional arousal with innately sensitive clients that frequently leverage their lives for relational attachment while often exhausting support networks, including their therapists. Deepen your DBT skills toolkit with vital interventions and scripts to deescalate life-threatening behaviors which is the primary target of individual DBT treatment.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Evaluate the biosocial model of DBT in the context of emotional dysregulation that increases suicidality urges and behaviors.  
  2. Analyze the DBT conceptualization of emotional dysregulation and its role in suicidal urges and behavior. 
  3. Evaluate how DBT coaching is utilized to shape effective communication strategies to reduce suicidal actions, gestures, communications, and hospitalizations. 

Outline

  • Learn DBT-based strategies to reduce frequency of suicidal behaviors and gestures. 
  • Learn how to provide comprehensive and quick orientation to clients of the biosocial model with key interventions to reduce a heightened stress response that increases vulnerability to life-threatening coping behaviors.
  • Develop a quick and effective coaching structure to reduce collusion with unskillful behaviors. 
  • Learn how to establish an effective safety plan for clients new to DBT.

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychotherapists
  • Therapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Case Managers
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 09/09/2021

Finding the Wounded Child Inside the Monster

Studies indicate that approximately 2/3 of all people with substance use disorders report experiencing some form of physical or sexual trauma during childhood. These studies suggest the primacy of utilizing a trauma-focused lens in addressing both addiction and the inherent attachment disturbances and trauma in the treatment space. We’ll cover the key features for successful work with dually-diagnosed client diagnosed with PTSD with Borderline Personality Disorder features and substance abuse disorders. These clients are impacted by early and ongoing developmental trauma. Dr. Webb integrates top-down and bottom-up strategies for addressing the traumatized minds and bodies of clients who have been failed so many times that they have sought “externalized caregivers” in the form of drugs and alcohol. This approach promotes adherence to treatment and strengthens the therapeutic alliance through “authoritative therapy” which promotes a new lens to understand the attachment trauma inherent in PTSD and BPD and to validate the need for a means to regulate an overreactive body and invalidating environment.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Apply authoritative DBT-based therapy techniques to promote felt safety for clients with complex trauma and addiction.
  2. Demonstrate 4 regulating strategies to client with addiction to manage their overtaxed systems.
  3. Utilize DBT-grounded and embodied skills to help clients reclaim a sense of their worthiness to live after trauma and addiction.

Outline

  • Trauma and the developing mind
  • Typical patterns of trauma-related addiction
  • Unique factors in creating a felt sense of safety with clients experiencing addiction
  • DBT-based strategies specifically for trauma-based addiction recovery
  • DBT-based embodied skill building
  • Meaning making in addiction recovery

Target Audience

  • Addiction Counselors
  • Counselors
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Physicians
  • Psychologists
  • Social Workers
  • Other Mental Health Professions

Copyright : 10/07/2022

The DBT Advantage: An Integrative Skill-Building Approach

Why do so many clients get stuck—unwilling or unable to move forward with their lives? Often it’s because therapists haven’t learned the necessary skills to help them function and behave more effectively. Dialectical behavior therapy offers a solution, with hundreds of skills that can enhance awareness, improve relationships, regulate emotions, and tolerate distress effectively. These skills help clients get better while enhancing therapist effectiveness and well-being. In this session, you’ll learn some of the most powerful DBT skills for change that you can start using immediately—and seamlessly integrating into your current approach. You’ll discover how to:

  • Bring clients back to the present moment when they dissociate or become flooded with emotion or fused with thoughts
  • Help clients tolerate painful emotions so that they don’t make difficult situations worse
  • Teach clients to determine whether emotions fit the facts, and how to reduce emotions when they’re getting in the way
  • Provide clients with simple tools to communicate more effectively to get their needs met while also maintaining relationships
  • Effectively engage clients in the process of learning and strengthening psychological skills

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Apply the four subsets of DBT skills: mindfulness, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, distress tolerance.
  2. Demonstrate the “why” and “how” of teaching at least one skill from each DBT subset.
  3. Apply at least 3 techniques for engaging clients in DBT-based skills training.
  4. Practice how to assign and review DBT homework to enhance clients’ skill-building capabilities.

Outline

  • Orientation to skills training: What it is and why we do it
  • Mindfulness skills: What are they and why we do it
  • Distress tolerance skills: TIPP
  • Emotion regulation skills
  • Interpersonal effectiveness skills
  • Increasing client skills acquisition: role play, practice, and homework
  • Demonstrations

Target Audience

  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Other Behavioral Health Professionals

Copyright : 01/27/2022