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Digital Seminar

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Conference: Improving Treatment Outcomes with DBT


Speaker:
Stephanie Vaughn, Psy.D.
Duration:
12 Hours 17 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Feb 05, 2015
Product Code:
POS047660
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

Designed in the early 1990s, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) gives hope and confidence to clinicians and clients alike. DBT was originally used to treat chronic suicidal individuals. However, clinicians across the country are using DBT to help treat individuals with a wide range of mental illnesses including Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), suicide and self-injuring, eating disorders and addictions.

This seminar is designed to help you understand why DBT is so effective with your clients. Leave with a solid foundation in DBT through training. Through the use of role-plays, clinical examples, and immediate responsiveness to questions, Stephanie Vaughn, Psy.D will provide you with an overall condensed version of DBT while incorporating fun, practical application examples and rehearsal. Stephanie, DBT expert, will help you demystify topics related to DBT and will cover the following:

Why DBT is effective with the most challenging clients including:

  • Borderline Personality Disorder
    • Suicide and self-injuring
    • Eating disorders
    • Addictions
  • Excel in the 4 Skills Modules: Core Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Interpersonal Effectiveness and Emotion Regulation
  • A major emphasis on specific individual DBT techniques
  • Hands-on practice using specific DBT strategies
  • How to become proficient in behavioral chain analysis

Take your current knowledge of DBT to the next level. Learn how to translate the often difficult-to-grasp DBT theories into practice. This seminar will help you add another tool to your DBT tool belt and increase your confidence while delivering this comprehensive model.

Come ready to engage in this highly interactive seminar. Learn how to respond to your client’s most challenging behaviors as Stephanie specializes in reducing DBT Therapy- Interfering Behaviors by using a combination of behaviorism and radical genuineness. Stephanie has the unique ability to translate the most challenging concepts from DBT to simple practical terms, so you are ready to use these skills the next day with your clients.

OUTLINE

DAY ONE:

Overview of Comprehensive DBT

  • 4 parts of DBT and therapists’ role(s)
  • Case conceptualize: Biosocial Model
  • 4 stages of DBT
  • Trends in DBT

Specific Tools Used in DBT

  • Informed consent & pre-treatment
  • Diary cards
  • Behavioral chain analysis forms & tools
  • When to terminate, hospitalize, or prescribe a “vacation from therapy”

The Individual Session

  • Demonstration of an individual session
  • DBT protocol: Prioritizing issues in the session
  • Radical genuineness: Being yourself: Therapist self-disclosure to enhance the relationship
  • Challenging behaviors: hostility, venting, blaming
  • Non-compliance with treatment recommendations
  • Suicide and Risk Assessment

Introduction to DBT Skills Group

  • Mindfulness vs Relaxation
  • DBT skills language
  • Teach skills as a non-DBT therapist
  • “Radical Acceptance,” “DEAR MAN,” “Wise Mind” and others

 

DAY TWO:

Moving Theory into Practice

  • The 3 Dialectical Dilemmas Case studies
  • The DBT Concept of “Attaining a Life Worth Living” as a therapeutic goal
  • Balance “acceptance versus change”

Changing Behavior

  • Use CBT in DBT
  • Classical conditioning and trauma
  • Identify life-threatening urges as being operant or respondent
  • Conduct a Behavioral Chain Analysis (BCA)

Validation

  • The role of invalidation in the development of BPD, self-injury, chronic suicidality, and disordered relational styles
  • The 6 Levels of Validation in DBT
  • “Radical Genuineness” and “Irreverence” to transform difficult moments
  • How to validate the most invalidating statements

Overcome the Fear of the Inevitable Telephone Contact

  • How to have a life and take phone calls
  • Apply the 24-hour-rule
  • Manage abuse of phone calls, texts, emails
  • Eliminate the dread, frustration, and fear of intersession contact
  • Role-plays of coaching calls

OBJECTIVES

  • Identify appropriate candidates for DBT using the Biosocial Model.
  • List the 4 essential ingredients of comprehensive DBT.
  • Utilize setting personal limits as a relationship enhancing tool.
  • Implement the DBT Diary Card in individual therapy and respond therapeutically to missing homework.
  • Identify and define life-threatening, therapy-interfering, & quality-of-life interfering behaviors according to DBT.
  • Determine what stage of treatment a client is in, and when to begin treating trauma.
  • Recognize which dialectical dilemma is represented in clinical case examples.
  • Explain how treatment responses to self-injury and other behaviors differ depending upon whether the behavior is defined as operant or respondent.
  • Respond effectively to invalidating statements and enhance the therapeutic relationship by utilizing the 6 levels of validation.
  • Explain the importance of the 24-hour-rule and improve your confidence taking patient crisis calls.
  • Perform a Behavioral Chain Analysis to increase or decrease a behavior of your choice.
  • Identify how to treat trauma according to DBT.

To order the book, The Mindfulness Toolbox: 50 Practical Tips, Tools & Handouts for Anxiety, Depression, Stress & Pain, please visit our product store.

To order the book, The Expanded Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training Manual, please visit our product store.


 

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Credit


* Credit Note - **

NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after completing the on-line post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). 

Continuing Education Information:  Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this non-interactive self-study package. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self-study is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.  

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Social Workers - Canadian Social Workers

PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the course. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2017 - January 27, 2020. Social Workers completing this course receive 12.5 (Clinical) continuing education credits for completing this intermediate level self-study course. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to social workers who complete the program evaluation. Full attendance is required. No partial credit will be offered for partial attendance. Canadian provinces may accept activities approved by the ASWB for ongoing professional development.


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PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number #50-399. This self-study course qualifies for 12.5 continuing education credits.


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PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Illinois, Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Division of Professional Regulation. License #: 159-000154. Successful completion of this self-study activity qualifies for 12.5 contact hours.


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PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Minnesota, Board of Social Work. Provider #: CEP-140. This self-study package has been approved for 12.5 continuing education hours. This certificate has been issued upon successful completion of a post-test.


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PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage & Family Therapist Board. Provider approval #: RCST071001. Successful completion of this self-study course meets the qualifications for 12.5 clock hours of continuing education credit.


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PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This program is approved for 12.5 self-study continuing education hours. Full credit statement at: www.pesi.com/cpa-statement


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Addiction Counselors - NAADAC

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Connecticut Addiction Counselors

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PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Florida Board of  Nursing. Provider #: FBN2858. These materials qualify for 12.5 self-study contact hours.

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Iowa Nurses

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Iowa Board of Nursing. Provider #: 346. Nurses successfully completing these self-study materials will earn 15.2 self-study contact hours. Please email cepesi@pesi.com with your license number, include the title, speaker name and date. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid.


Pennsylvania Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists

This intermediate activity is approved for 12.5 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation.


California Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Licensed Educational Psychologists

The State of California, Board of Behavioral Sciences will recognize and accept continuing education programs that are sponsored by providers approved by the APA and the ASWB. Full participation in this self-study course will qualify for 12.0 hours of continuing education credit.


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Speaker

Stephanie Vaughn, Psy.D.'s Profile

Stephanie Vaughn, Psy.D. Related seminars and products

Owner/ Clinical Psychologist

Psyche


Stephanie Vaughn, Psy.D., Clinical Psychologist-HSP is the founder of Psyche, PLLC, a boutique outpatient therapy practice located in the Nashville, TN and Boston, MA. She is an associate faculty member at Vanderbilt University in both the psychology and psychiatry departments. Dr. Vaughn conducts Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) with both adolescents and adults as a Board Certified DBT Clinician™. She is an expert on therapy-interfering behaviors and contingency management for oppositional behaviors in adolescents.

Dr. Vaughn has worked in the intensive PTSD program at the Department of Veteran Affairs with soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq and female soldiers suffering from Military Sexual Trauma where she implemented formal Prolonged Exposure (PE). She is active in the teaching and supervision of DBT for Vanderbilt’s psychology & counseling students and doctoral interns, as well as psychiatry residents. Dr. Vaughn has presented DBT workshops around the country for the last seven years and is a highly rated speaker. She founded and currently runs Vanderbilt’s DBT Peer Consultation Group. She has served as an expert consultant for a variety of hospitals, schools, and clinics around the country.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Stephanie Vaughn maintains a private practice.  She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.  She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Non-financial:  Stephanie Vaughn is a member of the American Psychological Association.
 


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.


Target Audience

Addiction Counselors, Case Managers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers, and other Mental Health Professionals

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