Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Certificate Course: Intensive Training

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Jean Eich, PsyD, LP Related seminars and products

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Jean Eich, PsyD, LP, is a Licensed Psychologist and has experience working in hospital, school, private practice, and community mental health settings. She has provided DBT services for 8+ years at the largest DBT clinic in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. Dr. Eich has developed, facilitated, and coordinated DBT programming for adolescents and their parents. Additionally, she has written curriculum and facilitated programming for adults with mental illness and developmental delays and has helped to design and maintain studies examining clinical outcomes of DBT programs. Dr. Eich is an adjunct assistant professor in the Masters of Counseling and Psychological Services program at St. Mary’s University. She currently serves clients at her private practice, Maplewood Psychology, where she continues to assist adults and adolescents with a variety of mental health concerns. Dr. Eich is also the author of Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training with Adolescents: A Practical Workbook for Therapists, Teens & Parents (PESI, 2015).

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Jean Eich has employment relationship with Maplewood Psychology. She receives a speaking honorarium, book royalties, and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Jean Eich is a member of the Minnesota Psychological Association and the American Psychological Association.

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Outline

• Dialectics explained
• Core philosophies in practice
• Skills training techniques
• Limitations of the research and potential risks

• Grounded in the present while being connected to past & future
• Using core skills to achieve “Wise Mind”
• Learn classic and innovative mindfulness skills
• Mindfulness exercises

• Building frustration tolerance
• Utilizing crisis survival strategies and plans
• Learn classic and innovative Distress Tolerance skills
• Distress Tolerance exercises

• Understanding emotions and reducing vulnerability
• Incorporating self-care, opposite action and building positive experience
• Learn classic and innovative emotional regulation skills
• Emotional regulation exercises

• Balance in relationships
• Objective, relationship and self-respect effectiveness
• Learn classic and innovative interpersonal effectiveness skills
• Interpersonal effectiveness exercises

• Understanding how therapy works: The Contextual Model
• Evidence-based practice
• Maximizing therapeutic factors, DBT-style
• Essential elements and functions of DBT revisited

• Structure as a therapeutic factor
• Structuring the therapy environment
• Identifying treatment targets: suicidality, self-injurious behavior (SIB), therapy-interfering behavior (TIB), and other targets

• Levels of validation
• Validation as an informal exposure technique

• Self-monitoring with the diary card
• Behavioral contingencies
• DBT-style cognitive interventions
• Behavior Chain (Change) Analysis

• Increase your motivation
• Develop effective responses
• Qualities of effective treatment teams

Next Steps: Develop Your Proficiency in DBT

Please Note: PESI is not affiliated or associated with Marsha M. Linehan, PhD, ABPP, or her organizations.

Objectives

1. Explain the underlying theory of Dialectics and Dialectic Behavior Therapy. .
2. Integrate DBT skills for individual and group therapy treatment into practice.
3. Teach DBT skills in the areas of Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotional Regulation and Interpersonal Effectiveness to clients.
4. Utilize specific DBT skills for the treatment of a range of mental health symptoms, chemical dependency and complex co-morbidities.
5. Describe DBT tools and resources used to effectively change behavior. 
6. Articulate a variety of strategies for teaching DBT skills to clients.
7. Demonstrate the use of crisis survival strategies to enhance distress tolerance 
8. Discriminate the DBT model from cognitive-behavioral, client-centered, and other treatment modalities.
9. Practice a multi-layered approach to validation of clients’ thoughts and feelings.
10. Apply DBT diary cards and chain (change) analysis techniques to address specific clinical issues in practice.
11. Summarize how to effectively operate consultative groups and treatment teams 
12. Assess and manage self-injurious and suicidal behaviors with clear protocols and safety plans.
13. Discuss the limitations and risks of DBT and areas of ongoing or future research regarding DBT effectiveness. 

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Psychologists
• Psychotherapists
• Social Workers
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Case Managers
• Mental Health Professionals
• Nurses

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