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Dialectical Behavior Therapy Certification Training

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is so popular because it works!

It even works with your most difficult clinical cases from suicidal and self-injurious behaviors to depression, anxiety, trauma, and substance use disorders.

Watch internationally recognized DBT expert, speaker and author Dr. Lane Pederson in this Certification Training and learn the DBT skills, tools, and techniques to transform your practice and finally see results with clients who have been chronically stuck.

Whether you’re interested in putting together a DBT Program, or simply want to add DBT to your eclectic or integrative style, Dr. Lane Pederson makes DBT accessible, practical, and gives you the confidence to bring this approach straight to your clients.

Best of all, upon completion of this training, you’ll be eligible to become Certified in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (C-DBT) through Evergreen Certifications. Certification lets colleagues, employers, and clients know that you’ve invested the extra time and effort necessary to understand the complexities of using DBT in counselling. Professional standards apply. Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/CDBT for details.

Purchase today and get the skills and confidence you need to successfully help your clients with the power of DBT!

CERTIFICATION MADE SIMPLE!

No hidden fees – PESI pays for your application fee (a $249.99 USD value)!
Simply complete this seminar and the included post-event evaluation, and your application to be Certified in Dialectical Behavior Therapy through Evergreen Certifications is complete.*

Attendees will receive documentation of C-DBT designation from Evergreen Certifications 4 to 6 weeks following completion.

*Professional standards apply. Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/CDBT for professional requirements.

Program Information

Objectives

Analyze the origins and clinical implications of Biosocial Theory.
Choose DBT skills to help clients identify unhealthy interaction styles.
Use mindfulness skills to empower clients in interpreting and reacting situations in healthier ways.
Utilize DBT skills to encourage support and constructive feedback in a group setting.
Develop ways in which clinicians can maximize client buy-in for DBT homework assignments.
Determine how interpersonal skills training can be used with clients to improve relationships.
Determine how DBT skills can be used to decrease the likelihood of compassion fatigue in clinicians.
Utilize DBT skills to identify and overcome obstacles to changing emotions and reactive behaviors.
Modify DBT for working with children and adolescents.
Appraise how DBT can be used in working with trauma survivors.
Use diary cards to monitor emotions and track use of DBT skills to deal with challenges.
Utilize a chain analysis with clients to help them gain insight into how they can change problem behaviors.
Determine how opposite action strategies can be used by clients to reduce self-destructive urges.
Choose interpersonal effectiveness exercises to help clients keep relationship without sacrificing their self-respect.
Utilize a pros and cons list to help clients see the consequences of their actions and make better choices when they are faced with a difficult decision.
Choose strategies to confront therapy interfering behavior and help clients overcome avoidance.
Determine how Dialectical Behavior Therapy interventions can help clients foster radical acceptance of traumatic events and reduce feelings of shame, guilt and fear.
Choose STOP skills to help clients manage crisis situations and decrease impulsive behaviors.
Use the levels of validation to enhance the therapeutic alliance and teach clients to validate themselves.
Identify DBT skills that can be used with clients to reduce self-harm and suicidal behaviors.
Develop a client’s Wise Mind state so they can be more aware and less impulsive in their actions.

Outline

Foundations of DBT

Biosocial Theory
Characteristics of DBT
DBT as an evidence-based practice
Dialectics: the balance of acceptance and change

DBT in the Clinical Setting

Application of DBT in the individual and group therapy setting
Skills training methods
Validation strategies
Research and limitations

DBT SKILLS TRAINING

Mindfulness: Cultivate the Skills at the Core of Successful DBT Therapy

Acceptance vs. judgement
Wise mind – achieve harmony between emotion and reason
Accessible exercises for building mindfulness skills
- Observation – keep clients calm, centered and aware
- Describe – overcome assumptions
- Participation – release judgement and fear
Strategies for teaching mindfully and exercises for therapy

Interpersonal Effectiveness: Skills to Build Better Relationships and Lives

Tools to identify strengths
Balancing relationships with self-respect
Exercises and role play guidance on how to:
- Develop healthy assertiveness skills
- Enhance conflict resolution skills
- Build empathy
- Keep problems from building up
- Resist pressure
Top strategies for changing behavior

Emotion Regulation: Practical Skills for Healthier Emotions and Greater Resilience

Strong emotions and poor coping skills
How to change unwanted emotions
Reduce emotional vulnerability while practicing self-care
Opposite action skills to reduce maladaptive behavior
Emotion Regulation exercises
Self-soothing strategies that work
Learn the sleep hygiene protocol

Distress Tolerance: Skills to Cope with Painful Moments and Survive Crisis

Developing crisis survival and reality acceptance skills
4 options to solving problems
Problem solving case studies
Using pros and cons to make decisions
STOP skills to manage crisis situations
The steps to practicing radical experience
Tools to accept change

DBT in Clinical Practice

Analyzing behaviors: chain analysis & missing links analysis
Diary cards and homework with clients
Identify therapy interfering behaviors
Develop skills to identify and manage self-harming & suicidal behaviors

Self-Harm and Suicidal Crises: A Roadmap for Assessment and Intervention

Screening and assessment tools for self-harming behaviors
Interventions and treatment considerations for the self-harming population
Suicide risk as a skills deficit problem
Tools and techniques to assess for level of risk
Firearms, medications, and lethal-means restriction plans that work
Safety plans and crisis intervention

Adapt DBT with Different Populations

Children and adolescents
Trauma survivors
Substance abusers

DBT: The Therapist and Consultation Group

3 ways to decrease therapist burnout
The characteristics of an effective DBT team
Integrating DBT into your practice

Target Audience

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

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DBT Strategies for Trauma Treatment

Looking for a research-supported, skills-based approach to trauma that’s both accessible and effective? Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) has become one of the most recognized and sought-after therapies for a variety of difficult to treat client problems, designed to empower clients to establish mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. And in the realm of trauma treatment, it’s among our most effective interventions. In this workshop, we’ll explore how DBT’s structured, skills-based approach can help stabilize clients before deeper trauma work, or work as a standalone intervention. Guided by the latest research and policy in evidence-based practices, you’ll learn the clinical process and content of DBT that will help you apply the essentials of DBT to trauma treatment. You’ll also learn:

How to help trauma survivors “extinguish the fire” of symptoms, not just continuously walk through it
Skills for combating loneliness, emotional dysregulation, and common other challenges in this time of unique uncertainty
Skills from the Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness modules
How validation, dialectical strategies, and communication styles can help clients effectively balance acceptance and change

Program Information

Objectives

Characterize how DBT techniques can be used as a symptom-targeted, skills-based framework for trauma recovery.
Contrast DBT based approaches with exposure and other processing-based trauma treatments.
Identify the advantages of using DBT strategies for people who may not be candidates for traditional trauma treatments.
Apply a DBT based treatment approach to specific cases.

Outline

Introduction

Real-world challenges and opportunities: Expanding the applications of DBT for trauma treatment
Addressing the gaps: Using symptom-targeted DBT skills when traditional trauma treatments don’t apply
Risks and Limitations

DBT Strategies for Trauma Treatment

Core principles of DBT in trauma-focused work
How DBT skills can be structured to effectively target symptoms and triggers

Practical Application of DBT for Trauma

Step-by-step implementation of DBT strategies for managing trauma-related distress
Interactive practice: Matching DBT skills to specific clients, symptoms, and triggers

Closing and Q&A

Best practices for integrating DBT into trauma treatment across various settings
Participant reflections: Key insights and questions

Target Audience

Counselors
Marriage and Family Therapists
Social Workers
Physicians
Psychologists
Addiction Counselors