DBT Part One: Becoming a Competent DBT Individual Therapist - July 2023
Date: July 27, 2023 & July 28, 2023 (Thursday/ Friday)
Time: 10:00a- 5:15pm EST
CEUs offered: 12
Presented by: Charity Chaney MA LPCC-S & the DBT Team
Modality: Live, Interactive Session with Activities & Discussion
Attendance: This training is offered 100% Virtually using Zoom Healthcare
NOTE: This is a live, interactive, training presented through Zoom as an online Webinar. Zoom recommends having a broadband wired/wireless connection, speakers, and a microphone to effectively participate via this platform. (Requirements listed on zoom’s website here: LINK).
Recording Date: NA
Cost: $360
Links to Access Material:
To access training: Links will be sent after registration, 2-3 days before training.
To complete training evaluation (to be submitted once training is completed): The link will be shared 2-3 days before the training, as well as during the training.
Program Summary:
This training reviews concepts and techniques central to the DBT® treatment modality. You will learn applications for behavioral principles to motivate change with the client. We teach the basic strategies used during individual therapy. Clinicians will learn the treatment hierarchy, secondary dialectics, and DBT treatment strategies to use with clients.
Learning Objectives:
• Review foundational concepts and therapeutic techniques central to the DBT® treatment modality.
• Discuss behaviorism and methods for implementation within therapy • During this training we review:
- The DBT stages of treatment,
- How to identify where your client is and what
- methods to use for meeting and treating them
- where they are.
- Practical applications for behavioral principles in
- an effort to motivate change with the client.
- Different behavioral approaches and terms so
- that they might understand and teach their cli- ents about how their problems may be behavior- ally reinforced.
- Basic strategies used during individual therapy within the framework of the DBT® treatment modality.
- The treatment hierarchy and secondary dialectics to target.
- Specific DBT treatment strategies to work toward acceptance, change, and helping the client find the middle path dialectically.
- We would like therapists leaving this training to feel confident in be- ing the individual therapist for a client who is learning the DBT® skills in a skills class.
Audience & Skill Level:
This is a beginner-level course (Provides an introduction to DBT con- tent and treatment methods) intended for licensed mental health professionals working with clients enrolled in a DBT skills group, or otherwise interested in supporting clients with symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder or other high acuity behaviors (such as self-harm or suicidal ideation)
Course Outline/Agenda:
Day One Schedule:
10:00-10:30 Introduction to Dialectical Behavioral Therapy® and Borderline Personality Disorder
• A look at this history of DBT®, reasons for its creation
and how it has evolved
• Use DSM-V-TR criteria to understand diagnostic criteria
for borderline personality disorder
• Align the overarching goals of DBT® treatment with the
symptoms of BPD
10:30-11:00 Dialectics
• Look at dialectics and how we can aid clients in growth
more efficiently with this model
• An introduction to primary and secondary dialectics
• Why to be transparent with clients about dialectics and
dialectical dilemmas
11:00-11:15 Biosocial Theory
• Utilization of this theory as a blame-free understanding
of the causes of emotional dysregulation
• Discussion of case examples related to biosocial theory • Exploring how to begin to teach this to clients and their
families
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-12:00 Assumptions
• Comprehension of the assumptions
• Case examples to explain how to shape your practice by
these assumptions
• Why the assumptions will help clinicians treating this
populations
12:00-12:30 Validation
• Understanding, utilizing and teaching clients to validate,
at all levels
• Using metaphors to validate
12:30-1:00 Stages of treatment
• An introduction to the stages of treatment
• Meet your client where they are
• Learning not to push too fast and how to recognize
when you have
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:30 Behaviorism concepts
• Understanding the differences between classical conditioning and operant reinforcement
• Acknowledging the differences between behavioral and
psychodynamic therapies
2:30-3:15 Behavioral terms
• Understanding reinforcers
• Utilization of case examples, videos and role play to solidify comprehension of behavioral reinforcement
3:15-3:45 Behaviorism and DBT ®
• A look at learned helplessness and habitual passive
problem solving
• Exploring how to teach clients to shape their environ-
ments
• Contingency management
• Ethical considerations for utilizing behavioral concepts
3:45-4:00 Break
4:00-5:00 Chain Analysis
• Understanding the treatment hierarchy
• Format your session by using chain analyses • Logistics of a chain and solution analysis
• DBT® Adherence
5:00-5:15 Q& A, Evaluations •
Day Two Schedule:
10:00-10:30 Attachment
• A look at why DBT® differs on it’s view of attachment • Healthy disclosure vs unhealthy disclosure
10:30-11:00 Dialectics and the therapist’s strategies
• Balancing acceptance vs change with your client
• Knowing when to push for change and when to use acceptance strategies
• Using case examples to teach therapist strategies
11:00-11:15 Treatment Planning
• Understanding the 5 types of dysregulation
• An in depth look at the stages of treatment
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-12:00 Treatment Planning Continued
Stages of treatment
12:00-1:00 Hierarchy of Targets
• How to prioritize the clients’ behavior along the hierarchy
• Using the diary card
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:30 Phone Coaching
• Phone coaching agreements
• Allowing for therapist limits
• Format of phone coaching
2:30-3:15 Documentation
• A look at a DBT® Progress note
• How and why to document contingency management
• Adherent use of the treatment hierarchy, diary card and
chain analyses
3:15-3:45 Exposure
• Prolonged Exposure as a stage two change based treat-
ment technique
• Rationale for “skills first” mentality
3:45-4:00 Break
4:00-5:00 Therapy Interfering Behaviors
• Identifying and treating TIBs
• What to do for willfulness
• Viewing TIBs through the lens of secondary dialectics
5:00-5:15 Adherence, Q& A, Evaluations
• A look at common therapist pitfalls that decrease adherence ratings
To Receive Course Credit Participants Must:
• Attend and engage with the entire training.
• Complete the post-training evaluation.
• Certificates will be sent within seven business days of confirming attendance and receiving the evaluation.
Instructor Bio’s:
Charity Chaney MA LPCC-S is a professional counselor in the state of Ohio and the lead therapist of Mindfully’s DBT team. In addition to applying DBT principles in his care for her clients, she also has experience leading and co-leading DBT skills classes where he helps groups apply DBT principles and learn new skills.
Program Approvals:
Ohio CSWMFT Approval
This training is approved for counselor, social work, and marriage and family therapy continuing education. In addition, it is approved by the Ohio Chemical Dependency Board for chemical de- pendency continuing education. Check CE Broker for detailed breakdown of CE types (provider number 50-24074).
For questions, comments or concerns:
Please contact TrainingCenter@Mindfully.com or via telephone: 513-939-0300
• Grievance policy: If you are dissatisfied with your experience, please feel free to share
this with us via email: TrainingCenter@mindfully.com or via telephone: 513-939- 0300, or via your program evaluation. All complaints will receive a response
within seven business days outlining actions taken and proposed responses which may include issuing a refund, credits for future trainings, updating course content or taking appropriate action with presenters, among others.
• Request for Accommodations: Should any accommodations enhance your program experience, please contact us via email: TrainingCenter@mindfully.com or via tele- phone: 513-939-0300, to explore what options you may have.
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