Trainings
Open to ALL Mental Health Professionals (2-days): |
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Skills
Training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy: The Essentials
This two-day workshop covers the content from each of
the four skills training modules in DBT—Core Mindfulness,
Emotion Regulation, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and
Distress Tolerance. (Schedule
of Events) |
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How
to be a Skills Trainer in Dialectical Behavior
Therapy
This two-day workshop focuses on the behaviors necessary
for therapists to lead skills training or to provide
individual skills coaching in DBT. This workshop will
not teach the content of the DBT skills. (Schedule
of Events) |
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Individual
Psychotherapy in Dialectical Behavior Therapy
This
workshop is intended for experienced clinicians,
whether experienced with DBT or simply interested
in increasing one’s range of interventions
with difficult-to-treat patients. (Schedule
of Events) |
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Advanced
Topics in Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Special
Emphasis on Adolescents
This workshop will provide the opportunity to reflect
on and assess the participants’ own work and
to generate new ideas so that they can make needed
changes with particularly difficult clients, in DBT
consultation teams and programs, and in their work
lives in order to prevent and treat burnout. (Schedule
of Events) |
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Coping
with Chaos: Treating Multiple Severe Disorders
with Dialectical Behavior Therapy
This two-day workshop is a comprehensive introduction
to Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) intended for
professionals. Methods of instruction include lecture,
videotapes of treatment, and practice exercises to
teach the principles and strategies of DBT. (Schedule
of Events) |
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After
Prozac®: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
This
two-day workshop covers the core elements of Mindfulness-Based
Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) through lecture, experiential
and video presentations. (Schedule
of Events) |
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Disordered
Eating: Treatment Strategies That Work
This practical two-day workshop is designed
for mental health professionals of all disciplines. Using
lecture, case examples, role-playing and small group
exercises, the instructor will teach strategies and procedures
to treat anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge
eating disorder. (Schedule of
Events) |
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Effective
Treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Intended for mental health professionals of
all disciplines and covers the latest evidence and state-of-the-art
treatment strategies for successfully alleviating PTSD.
(Schedule of Events) |
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Pragmatic
Approaches to Helping Problem Drinkers: From Motivational
Interviewing to Harm
Reduction and Relapse Prevention
Most
clinicians need a range of strategies to effectively
help problem drinkers. Whether alcohol abuse or dependence
is your client’s primary problem or is one of
many serious problems, this workshop will provide you
with practical, state-of-the-art cognitive behavioral
strategies to resolve problem drinking. (Schedule
of Events) |
| Online
Training Open to ALL Mental Health Professionals: |
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Online
Learning: DBT Skills Training
You
can now log onto the Internet for this 20-hour training
in DBT Skills and Skills Coaching. This course is
an excellent means of training new team members,
milieu/line staff and strengthening existing team
members’ skills.
Online Learning: DBT Skills Training is a highly interactive,
self-paced course which teaches the four DBT Skills
modules: Core Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness,
Distress Tolerance, and Emotion Regulation; Plus an
extra module entitled Skills Coaching. You will engage
in actual Skills group examples with clients: including
teaching points, memorization exercises and possible
pitfalls in Skills Training with expert DBT therapist
feedback. Course Objectives: Understand how Skills
Training fits into the comprehensive treatment of DBT;
Lead behavioral rehearsal in group, including the rapid
rehearsal; Overcome client objections during DBT Skills
Training; and Problem solve clients’ reluctance
to use Skills. Participants are eligible to receive
Continuing Education Credits (CME/CEU) of 20 contact
hours. (more information) |
| Training
Open to TEAMS of Mental Health Professionals Experienced
in DBT: |
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Dialectical
Behavior Therapy Intensive Training (10 days)
The
DBT Intensive Training is exactly that…intensive!
It is divided into two parts both of which are five
full days of training. The course is designed to
model basic elements of the treatment experientially
while fostering team development. |
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During
the first week of training, participants will learn
how to structure psychotherapy for clients who are
severely mentally ill and who have multiple chronic
problematic behaviors (e.g. suicidality, substance
abuse, post traumatic stress disorder, major depression,
homelessness, unemployment, etc.). Next participants
will learn the basic principles of cognitive behavior
therapy (CBT), including the four main change strategies
utilized in treatment – skills training, contingency
management, exposure therapy, and cognitive modification.
Participants will engage in group exercises and didactic
role-plays designed to strengthen their understanding
of CBT and the change strategies. Third, participants
will be taught the rationale for, and strategic levels
of validation; validation is used to balance the focus
on behavior change when working with clients. Finally,
participants will learn strategies for keeping treatment
moving forward as quickly as possible and the structure
for meeting together in a consultation team to improve
adherence to the treatment. The first week is both
didactic and experiential. |
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To guide
participants in mastering the material so they can
construct a program, we will give them a six-month
homework assignment to complete both as individuals
and as a team. If they follow the homework guidelines,
they will consolidate their knowledge of the elements
of the treatment and will think through their program
design. We want participants to over learn the material,
formulate and implement programs, and devise ways to
do outcome assessment. |
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When
the intensive reconvenes at Part II, each team will
present both a case from their setting and the program
they have designed to the entire group. They will
receive in-depth consultation from the DBT trainers
on both. Additionally, the trainers will review the
major strategies and techniques, and ask the participants
to demonstrate an increasing capacity to both define
these interventions and model them. |
| Advanced
Training Open to all INTENSIVELY Trained Teams and
Individuals: |
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Advanced
Intensive (5 days)
This Advanced Intensive
was created for clinicians and researchers who have
been intensively trained in DBT, are active members
of ongoing DBT consult teams, and have been actively
practicing DBT for at least one year. This training,
led either by Dr. Linehan or one of our most experienced
trainers, is designed to address frequent problem
areas in DBT individual therapy (e.g. handling in
session and severe emotional dysregulation; conducting
a truly competent behavioral analysis; how to talk
with clients about problematic phone calls; more
in depth teaching on mindfulness; review of how to
teach the most difficult-to-teach skills). There
is also considerable emphasis given to reviewing
the latest therapy tapes from Dr. Linehan’s
research clinic, with an aim towards helping therapists
and researchers become better at recognizing what
is and is not DBT. Participants are expected to volunteer
and be prepared to “jump into” practices
and role-plays, as well as opt to lead the group
in mindful practice or skills teaching. Again, enrollment
is limited and the course is offered once per 12
to 18 months. |
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For more
information, contact Helen Best (training@behavioraltech.org). |
| Consultation: |
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We offer
clinical case consultation and programmatic consultation.
Case consultation is offered to both teams and individuals
to assist in building clinical skills and/or resolution
of specific case difficulties. Program consultation
is designed to provide assistance in tailoring the
treatment to your setting and solving problems that
arise in implementation. Both case and program consultation
may be provided onsite and/or via telephone and may
be problem-specific or ongoing. |
| Individual
Adherence Case Consultation: |
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If
you would like to get trained in DBT to the level
of adherence to the treatment, you will want to obtain
supervision, by videotaping your sessions with one
of your clients, and having a series of tapes reviewed
and critiqued by an experienced adherence supervisor.
Adherence refers to the process of rating tapes systematically
for trueness to the treatment. It answers the question, “In
this session, am I doing DBT?” There is no
universal adherence rating, whereby one might say “I
am always doing DBT to adherence”; for example,
at Dr. Linehan’s research clinic at the University
of Washington, individual tapes are rated for adherence,
but not the overall work of individual therapists.
However, there is some evidence that greater adherence
to the treatment is positively correlated with better
outcome. |
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To obtain
adherence consultation, contact Helen Best at (206)
675-8588. She will work to refer you to an available
supervisor with whom you would set up the supervision
arrangement. All adherence supervisors have been trained
to adherence themselves, usually by working within
one of Dr. Linehan’s studies. Typically, the
supervisor would watch one tape per week and then give
you feedback via email and the phone on where you received
high ratings and where your ratings for a particular
set of strategies was low. He or she would then coach
you in how to adhere more closely to the model. |
| Training
Open to New Members of Intensively Trained Teams: |
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Five-Day
Foundational DBT Training Course
This five-day
training is designed specifically for individual
or group therapists who are members of an intensively
trained team, but who have not completed intensive
training themselves. It is not a substitute for
Intensive training, but is meant to assist teams
that have hired new staff or experienced turn over.
This training allows newer team members to get trained
up at a five-day training that will cover the standard
content of DBT. The training will assume that everyone
in attendance works in an active DBT program, participates
on a consultation team, and works with a comprehensively
trained team. This course is content heavy, and is
five full days of training. As would DBT clients,
participants agree to attend the entire training,
to do their best to learn the material, and participate
in a willing, committed manner. Lecture, video, role-play
and small group exercises will be used to teach
DBT theory and strategies in depth. (Schedule
of Events) |
| Onsite
Agency Formats: |
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One
and One
The “One and One” is a one-day introductory
workshop followed by one day of consultation. The one-day
workshop allows you to reach a broad audience, to generate
awareness, to initiate buy-in, and to spark interest
among your treatment providers. The follow up day of
consultation allows time to focus efforts and to develop
an action plan. This format is conducted onsite for
individual agencies and is not available for open enrollment. |
