Is DBT for You and Your Clients?

About the Course

This one day workshop introduces health-care professionals to Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and helps with decisions about whether DBT is the right fit. Clinicians working with patients who have multiple problems are often stymied by the complex clinical presentations and challenges that arise during treatment. This introductory day will describe the theoretical and empirical foundations for DBT. It covers the basic principles of balancing change and acceptance strategies in standard DBT and discusses ways of applying these strategies and principles to your clients. Participants can expect to learn useful DBT skills; however, this workshop is not sufficient for acquiring the competence necessary to conduct comprehensive DBT. Suggestions for additional training and self-study will be provided. Methods of instruction include lecture and demonstrations of treatment.

This workshop is appropriate for mental health providers who are exploring whether learning DBT to a standard of clinical proficiency would benefit their own clinical skills and their clients suffering from complex disorders. It can also be useful for health care providers, outside of mental health, who are interested in determining whether DBT is appropriate for their patients.

Teaching methods include lecture and demonstration to illustrate the treatment strategies used in DBT

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this training.