Dialectical Behavior Therapy Certification Training

Whether you're new to Dialectical Behavior Therapy or looking for new ways to expand your current DBT skills, this training will give you advanced interventions and practical clinical tools to use with adults, youth, substance users and trauma survivors in a wide variety of settings.

Designed for counselors, social workers, psychologists, addiction counselors, marriage and family therapists, and other mental health professionals…

…you'll get access to 3 full days of training on the core aspects of DBT and how to use them in your practice ABSOLUTELY FREE.

• 3-days of LIVE expert-led training
• The complete set of course materials
• On-demand access to the recording for 3 days
• And the opportunity to get your questions answered live during the training

This is a rare opportunity for free DBT training from a true expert, don't miss this…

And at no cost, you've got nothing to lose!

Objectives

1. Analyze the origins and clinical implications of Biosocial Theory.
2. Choose DBT skills to help clients identify unhealthy interaction styles.
3. Use mindfulness skills to empower clients in interpreting and reacting situations in healthier ways.
4. Utilize DBT skills to encourage support and constructive feedback in a group setting.
5. Develop ways in which clinicians can maximize client buy-in for DBT homework assignments.
6. Determine how interpersonal skills training can be used with clients to improve relationships.
7. Determine how DBT skills can be used to decrease the likelihood of compassion fatigue in clinicians.
8. Utilize DBT skills to identify and overcome obstacles to changing emotions and reactive behaviors.
9. Modify DBT for working with children and adolescents.
10. Appraise how DBT can be used in working with trauma survivors.
11. Use diary cards to monitor emotions and track use of DBT skills to deal with challenges.
12. Utilize a chain analysis with clients to help them gain insight into how they can change problem behaviors.
13. Determine how opposite action strategies can be used by clients to reduce self-destructive urges.
14. Choose interpersonal effectiveness exercises to help clients keep relationship without sacrificing their self-respect.
15. Utilize a pros and cons list to help clients see the consequences of their actions and make better choices when they are faced with a difficult decision.
16. Choose strategies to confront therapy interfering behavior and help clients overcome avoidance.
17. Determine how Dialectical Behavior Therapy interventions can help clients foster radical acceptance of traumatic events and reduce feelings of shame, guilt and fear.
18. Choose STOP skills to help clients manage crisis situations and decrease impulsive behaviors. 
19. Use the levels of validation to enhance the therapeutic alliance and teach clients to validate themselves.
20. Identify DBT skills that can be used with clients to reduce self-harm and suicidal behaviors.
21. Develop a client’s Wise Mind state so they can be more aware and less impulsive in their actions.

Outline

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

• 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, centered 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 behavior

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 practicing self-care
• Opposite action skills to reduce maladaptive behavior
• 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 practicing radical acceptance
• Tools to accept change

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

• Screening and assessment tools for self-harming behaviors
• 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

• Children and adolescents
• Trauma survivors
• Substance abusers

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