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Key Strategies in Individual DBT Treatment

Have you picked up a few DBT skills over the years, but without fully understanding what makes this way of working so different and powerful? Research has shown DBT is highly effective with high-risk clients who present with a range of complex problems. Because it integrates techniques from other popular approaches, many DBT strategies can be woven into clinical frameworks and methods you're already comfortable using. In this workshop, you’ll learn the nuts and bolts of structuring an individual DBT session to help foster change for even the most complicated clients. You’ll explore:  

  • How DBT is distinguished from other approaches to therapy 
  • Twelve sets of DBT strategies used in individual therapy sessions with high-risk clients 
  • Twenty-six specific DBT interventions that can be integrated into your treatments for complex trauma, suicidality, personality disorders, and more 
  • How to reinforce your current go-to interventions with DBT-based skills 

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Articulate the specific treatment modes necessary for treatment to be DBT. 
  2. Describe specific interventions that are required in an individual DBT session. 
  3. List the interventions that are optional in DBT sessions. 
  4. Recognize behavioral interventions used in adherent DBT individual therapy. 
  5. Utilize communication strategies used in DBT individual therapy. 

Outline

  • What is DBT? 
  • The primary treatment modes of adherent DBT treatment and the critical role of individual therapy 
  • The importance of fidelity and adherence when using DBT  
  • The critical interventions that are required in an individual DBT session 
  • Optional interventions to use in DBT sessions 
  • The key behavioral interventions used in adherent DBT individual therapy 
  • The most effective communication strategies used in DBT individual therapy 
  • Risks and limitations to the research 

Target Audience

  • Psychologist
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Counselors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Social Workers

Copyright : 03/22/2024

DBT Interventions for High-Risk Clients: Ensuring Safety and Effectiveness in Trauma Treatment

Clinicians often shy away from targeting/treating trauma and PTSD when clients present with high risk behaviours including non-suicidal self-injury and suicidal behaviours. This is often true even for clinicians with significant expertise in treating trauma. Unfortunately, a majority of clients who engage in high risk behaviors have also experienced significant trauma or meet criteria for PTSD and their trauma related symptoms often prompt suicidal and self-injurious behaviours.

Many clients find themselves stuck in a catch-22; their trauma related symptoms cause severe emotional distress that makes NSSI and suicidal behaviours more likely to occur and these behaviours in turn render them ineligible for many treatments that would address their trauma.

On the other hand, clients without the ability to regulate and tolerate intense emotions and distress can be overwhelmed by trauma treatment and treatment can actually be harmful or dangerous to them.

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, a treatment approach that was initially developed to help people with frequent and intense suicidal behavior who often had histories of trauma, offers tools and structures that help to resolve these very conundrums.

In this talk, attendees can expect to get a brief overview of strategies, tools and lessons learned in the context of DBT that will help them support clients who engage in suicidal behaviours. Clinicians will leave this talk with a few helpful guidelines and tools from DBT that may change their approach and comfort level working with trauma in a safe and effective manner when high risk behaviours are a consideration.

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Objectives

  1. Understand the relationship between trauma and suicidal/high-risk behaviors.
  2. Be able to assess readiness for trauma treatment in clients who engage in suicidal behaviors or experience suicidal ideation.
  3. Understand ways to prepare high-risk clients for trauma treatment and ways to safely treat trauma in this population.

Outline

Research and Treatment Approaches

  • Overview of research on trauma, suicide risk and other high-risk behaviours
    • Current research findings
    • Limitations of current research
    • Approaches to treating trauma in high-risk client populations
      • Standard DBT
      • DBT-PE
      • DBT-PTSD
      • CPT
  • Assessing readiness for trauma processing in clients with high-risk behaviours
    • Stages of Treatment
    • Requirements for stability – lessons for DBT-PE
    • Tolerating difficult emotions – ways to assess and build
    • Risks of trauma treatment in high-risk clients
  • When clients are not ready for trauma processing
    • Options for stabilization
    • Trauma-informed treatment modifications
    • Residential and inpatient treatments

Target Audience

  • Addiction Professionals
  • Case Managers
  • Licensed Clinical/Mental Health Counselors
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Psychotherapists
  • Psychologists
  • Social Workers

Copyright : 06/12/2024

Dialectical Behavior Therapy for PTSD: Skills to Ground Clients, Decrease Triggers and Improve Emotion Regulation

DBT transforms the way you do therapy – moving you from a change-based model to one of skill-based learning. And applying a DBT approach to trauma treatment can help you get to the very core of how your clients think about life and emotions, so they can make tremendous strides in therapy. Katelyn Baxter-Musser has taught thousands of clinicians to use DBT in their practices for improved treatment outcomes. Join her in this session and discover evidence-based DBT tools you can use to keep clients grounded, help them become more tolerant of their triggers, and increase their emotion regulation. 

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Integrate distress tolerance skills from DBT into treatment to help clients identify and gain control of their responses to emotional triggers. 
  2. Practice paced breathing and progressive muscle relaxation techniques with clients to provide them self-administered interventions they can use to reduce physiological and psychological stress.   
  3. Develop treatment plans that incorporate dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) skills for clients with elevated emotion dysregulation.  

Outline

  • DBT an evidence-based approach  
  • Using DBT distress tolerance skills to decrease triggers 
  • Coming back to the here and now using paced breathing and progressive muscle relaxation 
  • Self-sooth using the five senses 
  • Regulating intense emotions by Riding the Wave 
  • Increasing emotion regulation using opposite action  
  • Research, risks and limitations 

Target Audience

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

Copyright : 12/14/2022

Integrate Motivational Interviewing with CBT & DBT: Blend Popular Approaches for Comprehensive Treatment

Dry therapy doesn’t engage clients.

Especially when you’re working with clients that present with multiple problems at once…

You need to meet them where they’re at and have training skills and techniques to move them forward.

Give your therapy the boost it needs – gain skills to integrate CBT and DBT into the powerful approach of Motivational Interviewing.

Join Kristin Dempsey and Ali Hall and learn concrete skills you can use tomorrow in session to get more client engagement, less resistance, greater therapy compliancy and enhanced outcomes. You’ll learn how to…

  • Know when to use CBT or MI or both
  • Use DBT as a guiding style for therapy
  • Apply 8 clinical skills for change across all modalities
  • Engage clients in conversation that instills hope for change

Plus, you’ll get real-world case studies to help you apply concepts and strategies!

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Implement MI techniques in such a way to support other treatment modalities, specifically DBT and CBT.
  2. Theorize common factors between Motivational Interviewing, DBT and CBT.
  3. Practice transdiagnostic skills of “exchanging information,” to enhance therapy across any modality used.

Outline

Clinical skills That Matter Across All Modalities

  • What skills are essential?
  • What we’ve learned across all modalities
  • 8 Must-do skills
  • Carl Rogers & MI
  • How effective implementation looks
  • More than just “exchanging information”
  • Instilling hope
Blending CBT & MI
  • How CBT supports MI
  • Identifying the common factors
  • Know when to use CBT vs MI, or both
  • Explore Stages of Change to activate behavior
  • 2 Case Examples
Blending DBT & MI
  • Identifying common factors
  • Incorporating metaphor
  • Using MI to get client homework done
  • “Guiding” style

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Therapists
  • Physicians
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Health Coaches
  • Probation/Parole Officers
  • Other behavioral health professionals
  • Other Healthcare Professionals
  • Other Rehab Professionals

Copyright : 09/22/2022

24 Must-Have Mindfulness Techniques for Clinicians: Skills and Tools from DBT, ACT and More for Enhanced Treatment of Trauma, Anxiety, and Grief

Unlock the transformative potential of mindfulness with this training designed to elevate your skills and allow you to quickly harness the proven benefits of mindfulness across a wide range of therapeutic applications.

You’ll get a carefully curated collection of 24 indispensable mindfulness techniques used in top treatments like DBT and ACT. And since these techniques have been meticulously selected by mindfulness expert and acclaimed trainer Katelyn Baxter-Musser, you can rest assured you’re getting the very best mindfulness has to offer the clinician.

Whether you work with clients struggling with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, or interpersonal conflicts, Katelyn will make mastering these techniques feel simple and have you fully prepared to use them the very next day.

When you watch Katelyn you’ll discover the keys to clinical mindfulness so you can:

  • Use proven tools to help clients manage their trauma triggers and interrupt anxiety
  • Skillfully utilize exercises that cultivate present moment awareness and reduce avoidance
  • Heighten clients’ consciousness of thoughts, emotions and physical sensations
  • Master techniques to regulate intense urges and impulses
  • Seamlessly integrate mindfulness into your therapeutic practice with Katelyn’s pro tips
  • Reinforce what you learn through real-life case examples and specific therapeutic scenarios

Bringing the very best mindfulness-based interventions into your practice has never been easier.

Take the guess work out of “what mindfulness intervention should I use in this situation” with Katelyn’s expert guidance and make your treatment more effective than ever before.

Purchase now!

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Utilize DBT mindfulness skills to promote emotional regulation, enhance distress tolerance, and foster interpersonal effectiveness.
  2. Apply mindfulness strategies from ACT to help clients enhance their ability to stay present in the moment and cultivate non-judgmental awareness.
  3. Analyze the impact of traumatic experiences on the development and maintenance of symptoms and avoidance and describe the role of mindfulness in mitigating these symptoms.
  4. Evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness exercises as interventions for reducing symptoms of anxiety and depression.
  5. Identify potential benefits and drawbacks of mindfulness-based interventions for individuals experiencing grief and connect to the implications for clinical practice in supporting individuals coping with loss.
  6. Gain insight into the various ways in which therapists incorporate mindfulness techniques into treatment, the challenges they encounter, and the strategies they employ to address these challenges.

Outline

DBT Mindfulness Skills for Almost Any Client: Reduce Clients’ Stress, Increase Their Self-Awareness, and Help Them Regulate Emotions

  • Mindful Breathing techniques to reduce stress and anxiety in your clients
  • Present Moment exercises for awareness of thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations
  • Urge Surfing techniques to help clients regulate intense urges and reduce impulsivity
  • Non-judgmental Stance exercises to improve self-esteem and reduce interpersonal conflict

The Clinician’s Guide to ACT Mindfulness Interventions: 4 Top Tools for Clients to Manage Negative Thoughts and Build Resilience

  • Mindful Acceptance for non-judgmental attitude towards thoughts and emotions
  • Diffusion techniques to help clients distance themselves from negative thoughts
  • Values Identification and Commitment for motivation and greater sense of purpose
  • Self-compassion practices for improved self-esteem and resilience

Revitalize Trauma and Anxiety Treatment with Mindfulness: Complementary Techniques for Managing Triggers, Interrupting Anxiety and Reducing Avoidance

  • Grounding exercises to manage triggers following traumatic experiences
  • Body Scanning techniques for greater awareness of bodily sensations
  • Mindful Breathing techniques to reduce physical tension and promote relaxation
  • Power of the Pause exercise to slow automatic anxiety responses and increase sense of control
  • Thought-Stopping techniques to interrupt and redirect anxiety-provoking thoughts
  • Mindful Exposure and Response Prevention techniques to help clients reduce avoidance behaviors

Mindfulness for Grief and Loss: Help Clients Reflect, Accept and Cultivate Gratitude for Healthier Grieving

  • Mindful Reflection exercises for greater insight and acceptance following loss
  • Techniques to develop non-judgmental attitudes towards grief-related thoughts
  • Cultivating Gratitude to increase resilience and improve mood
  • Compassionate Presence for improved emotional regulation and reduced distress

Strategies for Integrating Mindfulness Techniques into Clinical Practice

  • Practical tips and strategies for integrating mindfulness techniques into your clinical work
  • Case examples of mindfulness used in specific therapeutic scenarios
  • Avoiding misapplication
  • Addressing the needs of diverse populations and cultures
  • Research, risks and limitations of mindfulness-based interventions

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Case Managers
  • School Counselors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Therapists
  • Art Therapists
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 10/19/2023

Healing Trauma from Narcissistic Abuse Using a DBT Approach

Narcissistic abuse leaves no aspect of one's life untouched. From fractured self-esteem to shattered trust, the impact is profound and far-reaching. The therapeutic process is often long and at times clinicians may find themselves navigating complex emotional landscapes, confronting unforeseen challenges, or feeling emotionally drained by the intensity of the work. Despite your dedication, traditional therapeutic methods may feel insufficient in addressing the depth of your client’s wounds. This is where Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) shines as an innovative approach. DBT offers a unique blend of validation and skill-building making it particularly adept at addressing the intricate layers of trauma resulting from narcissistic abuse.

DBT's emphasis on emotional regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness equips therapists with a toolkit tailored to the unique challenges posed by narcissistic abuse. This innovative approach provides concrete strategies for clients to manage overwhelming emotions and triggers, learn to trust oneself in relationships, set healthy boundaries and cultivate a deeper sense of self-compassion. By integrating these skills into therapy, clinicians can empower clients not just to cope, but to actively reclaim their lives and build resilience in the face of narcissistic abuse.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Integrate DBT principles into therapy sessions for clients to rebuild their lives post-narcissistic abuse.
  2. Choose mindfulness-based interventions to enhance clients' self-awareness and self-compassion as part of their recovery from narcissistic abuse.
  3. Utilize DBT skills for distress tolerance to help clients navigate challenging situations and triggers associated with narcissistic abuse.

Outline

Understanding Narcissistic Abuse Trauma

  • The impact of narcissistic abuse on survivors
  • Common manifestations of trauma in clients affected by narcissistic abuse
  • Unique challenges faced by survivors in rebuilding their lives

Essentials of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for Trauma

  • Overview principles and techniques relevant to trauma recovery
  • Role in addressing emotional dysregulation and distress tolerance
  • Combine with traditional therapeutic approaches in healing trauma from narcissistic abuse
  • Research and limitations

DBT Skills for Emotional Regulation, Resilience, and Self-Compassion

  • Skills for emotional regulation, including mindfulness and distress tolerance
  • Techniques for managing overwhelming emotions triggered by narcissistic abuse
  • Importance of self-compassion as a cornerstone of healing and resilience

Rebuilding Lives: Implement DBT in Clinical Practice

  • DBT techniques into trauma-informed therapy for survivors of narcissistic abuse
  • Tailor interventions to meet the unique needs of individual clients
  • Actionable strategies to support clients in their journey of healing
  • Self-compassion as a central element in the recovery process

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Social Workers
  • Physicians
  • Psychologists
  • Addiction Counselors

Copyright : 10/06/2024