Intensive
Training for DBT Teams (10-Day Training |
The DBT Intensive Training
Course is designed for teams who have learned DBT
in one-day or two-day workshops and/or from self-guided
study of the treatment manuals and who are invested
in learning DBT to a high standard in order to better
implement the treatment in their usual settings.
As DBT is a treatment that requires an ongoing consultation
team, the intensive training is designed for treatment
teams, not individual practitioners intending to
practice DBT alone. A DBT team (minimum of
4, maximum of 10) is a group of mental health professionals
who meet regularly to assist each other in applying
DBT in the practice setting. Teams should discuss
their level of commitment prior to completing their
application. Course enrollment is limited, and there
is more demand for Intensive Training than can be
provided so please consider your application carefully.
(Full Training Description & Application) |
| Behavioral Tech usually sponsors 3-5
Intensive trainings each year. (Schedule
of Events) |
You can also bring a closed Intensive
training to your site, if you work in a larger mental
health system. For more information, please
contact Helen Best (info@behavioraltech.org).
Please provide information about what you are trying
to do and how many people you want to have trained. |
| Advanced Topics in Dialectical
Behavior Therapy (2-Day Training) |
After being Intensively trained,
your team or individual members become eligible to
attend advanced trainings designed for smaller groups
of mental health professionals who are experienced
DBT therapists working on a Consultation Team. These
2-day trainings are offered twice per 12 to 18 months.
Space is very limited so please register early. Announcement
of these trainings is made first to our email list,
so make sure you sign up to receive our email updates.
(Schedule of Events) |
Advanced Intensive Training
in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (5-Day Training) |
| This Advanced Intensive is for individuals
or teams 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 Advanced Intensive, 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. Enrollment is
limited and the course is offered once per 12 to 18
months. Announcement of these trainings is made first
to our email list, so make sure you sign up to receive
our email updates.
(Schedule of Events) |
| Consultation |
| 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 |
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. |
| 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. |
