Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Children

About the Course

In partnership with The Comprehensive Training Center, biDBT are pleased to offer the DBT-C workshop. Designed and delivered by Dr Francheska Perepletchikova, an internationally recognized creator and researcher of DBT-C, this training provides clinicians with tailored, clinically validated tools for working with the child’s caregivers, the child, and the adults in the child’s extended environment.

This training is delivered in an on-demand asynchronous format, including a two-month time limit (60 days) to complete each Part, six months of live consultation between Parts 1 and 2 (one session per month), role play and Q&A resource libraries, handouts, full technical support.

You’ll learn to address key clinical targets such as severe emotion dysregulation, dysphoric mood, impulsivity, self-harm risk, and behavioural dyscontrol, while empowering caregivers to cultivate validating, change-ready environments. The curriculum is anchored in empirical research and real-world clinical application, ensuring you can immediately integrate DBT-C into your professional practice.

This course is ideal for clinicians who have foundational DBT training and who aim to deliver DBT-C interventions at a high standard. By program completion, you’ll gain both a robust clinical framework and the ongoing support network needed to implement DBT-C effectively.

For more information on DBT-C, please visit ChildDBT.com.

Complimentary Access to DBT-C Resource Library 

As a supporting resource upon completing the DBT-C workshop, CTC is pleased to offer a one-month free trial to their DBT-C Resource Library subscription, consisting of an ever-growing library of clinician and parent questions, and recorded role plays with debriefs on all aspects of the model.

For more information please visit:  https://comprehensivetraining.org/training/dbt-c-resource-library-subscription/

Learning Objectives

Part 1 — Foundations of DBT-C

By the end of Part 1, participants will be able to:

• Identify appropriate candidates for DBT-C and explain its research base and development from standard DBT.
• Understand the biosocial model of emotional dysregulation in children and apply the DBT-C treatment hierarchy.
• Structure DBT-C to meet treatment functions and teach DBT-C skills effectively.
• Coach parents in behaviour modification, problem-solving, and cognitive restructuring, while helping them create validating, change-ready home environments.
• Conduct behavioural analyses with children and apply the DBT-C Emotion Change Model.
• Adapt the DBT-C program to fit diverse clinical settings.

Part 2 — Core Problem Analysis (CPA) & Advanced Applications

Upon completing Part 2, participants will be able to:

• Develop DBT-C case conceptualizations and define secondary treatment targets.
• Understand and work with the three core senses: self-love, safety, and belonging.
• Conduct Core Problem Analysis (CPA), explain its functions, and apply its emotion model and guiding principles.
• Identify and implement interventions to reduce vulnerabilities in children and parents.
• Differentiate adaptive vs. maladaptive CPA profiles and integrate findings into treatment planning.

Prerequisites

All participants must have completed standard DBT Intensive or Foundational training.

OR

Commit to completing The Comprehensive Training Center’s DBT Basics course. Please click here to see more about DBT Basics.

Supporting Resources/ Materials

To supplement individual treatment, DBT-C clinicians can refer their parent/caregiver clients to Dr. Perepletchiokova’s parent training component called Superparenting.

Superparenting is a two-part informational course intended to provide knowledge, resources, and strategies to parents and caregivers of children and adolescents experiencing emotional dysregulation and corresponding behavioral dyscontrol.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy for children emphasizes the caregivers’ role in improving a child’s level of functioning and views caregivers’ adaptive responding as one of the main mechanisms of change; this course is intended to strengthen and equip caregivers with the skills they may need to help their sensitive children improve their level of functioning.