Level 3
Seattle, WA
December 9-13, 2019
Trainer: Tony DuBose, PsyD and Presenters: Vibh Forsythe Cox, PhD & Debbie Leung, PhD, RPsych
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Foundational Training™ (SOLD OUT)
Tag: BPD
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Intensive Training™ (SOLD OUT)
Level 3
Seattle, WA
Part 1: December 9-13, 2019
Part 2: June 22-26, 2020
Trainer: Tony DuBose, PsyD and Presenters: Vibh Forsythe Cox, PhD & Debbie Leung, Ph.D., R.Psych
*Individual therapists who are members of an intensively trained DBT team, but have not completed Intensive training themselves, may attend Part 1 as a Foundational participant.
DBT Skills Training: The Essentials
Level 2 – Therapy Essentials
Fort Lauderdale, FL
October 17-18, 2019
Trainer: Haleh Ghanizadeh, MD, MPH
Co-Sponsor: Nova Southeastern University
Intensive Training in the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Prolonged Exposure Protocol for PTSD (SOLD OUT)
Level 4 – Advanced DBT Training & Applications
Arden Hills, MN (Minneapolis-St.Paul area)
October 7-10, 2019
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Intensive Training™
Level 3
Sydney, Australia
Part 1: August 19-23, 2019
Part 2: March 2-6, 2020
DBT Skills Training: The Essentials
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Please note: This is a training series for staff and guests of CHI Nebraska.
If you are not a part of this group, please visit us at https://behavioraltech.org/events/ to see a list of upcoming events available to the general public.
Introduction to DBT: Skillful Living
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Please note: This is a training series for staff and guests of CHI Nebraska.
If you are not a part of this group, please visit us at https://behavioraltech.org/events/ to see a list of upcoming events available to the general public.
Reflecting on DBT Assumptions about Patients and Therapy (Part 4)
“The most important thing to remember about assumptions is that they are just that—assumptions, not facts.”
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder; Marsha M. Linehan, Ph.D, 1993
This feature by Vibh Forsythe Cox, PhD is our fourth and final part in this series of blogs about DBT assumptions. In DBT, in order to organize our behavior towards our clients, we adhere to certain assumptions. Through the first three parts of this blog series, we examined the assumptions that “Patients are doing the best they can,” that “Patients want to improve,” that “Patients need to do better, try harder, and be more motivated to change,” that “Patients may not have caused all of their own problems, but they have to solve them anyway,” that “the lives of suicidal, borderline individuals are unbearable as they are currently being lived,” and that “patients must learn new behaviors in all relevant contexts.”
In this fourth part, we will shine a light on the last two assumptions: that “Patients cannot fail in therapy” and that “Therapists treating borderline patients need support.”
Continue reading Reflecting on DBT Assumptions about Patients and Therapy (Part 4)Reflecting on DBT Assumptions about Patients and Therapy (Part 3)
“The most important thing to remember about assumptions is that they are just that—assumptions, not facts.”
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder; Marsha M. Linehan, Ph.D, 1993
This feature by Vibh Forsythe Cox, PhD is Part 3 in a series of four blogs about DBT assumptions. In DBT, we adhere to several assumptions that help us organize our behavior towards our clients. In our first two parts we examined the assumptions that “Patients are doing the best they can,” that “Patients want to improve,” and that “Patients need to do better, try harder, and be more motivated to change.” In this third part, we take a closer look at three more assumptions about patients with Borderline Personality Disorder and therapy described in the treatment manual. First, that patients may not have caused all of their own problems, but they have to solve them anyway. Second, that the lives of suicidal, borderline individuals are unbearable as they are currently being lived. And finally, that patients must learn new behaviors in all relevant contexts.
Continue reading Reflecting on DBT Assumptions about Patients and Therapy (Part 3)Reflecting on DBT Assumptions about Patients and Therapy (Part 2)
“The most important thing to remember about assumptions is that they are just that—assumptions, not facts.”
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder; Marsha M. Linehan, Ph.D, 1993
This feature by Vibh Forsythe Cox, PhD is Part 2 in a series of four blogs about DBT assumptions. In DBT, we adhere to several assumptions that help us organize our behavior towards our clients. In this second part, we take a closer look at two of the assumptions about patients with Borderline Personality Disorder and therapy described in the treatment manual: that patients want to improve and that patients need to do better, try harder, and be more motivated to change.
Continue reading Reflecting on DBT Assumptions about Patients and Therapy (Part 2)