Advanced Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills Training Course – Stephanie Vaughn

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You desperately want to help your clients struggling with severe issues like personality disorders, suicidal thoughts, and addictions. But when they keep falling back into destructive — and possibly life threatening — behavior patterns, it can make you and your client want to give up.

For clients like these, the evidence-based Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) approach can be an extremely powerful tool to create long-lasting behavioral change and improve your treatment outcomes.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) combines empirically validated techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with core mindfulness concepts in order to help change tough, maladaptive behavioral patterns — perfect for those clients who seem resistant to your current therapeutic techniques.

Here’s your opportunity to join Stephanie Vaughn, Psy.D., Clinical Psychologist-HSP, for an advanced skills training course on the powerful Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) approach.

Foundations of DBT

In this module you will learn the history and background of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Treatment as well as how to:

• Identify the core philosophies, modalities and assumptions of DBT treatment
• Assess whether original formula or adaptive/modified DBT would work most effectively with your client population
• Avoid stereotyping or stigmatizing your clients during treatment
• Determine which clients are best suited for DBT therapy

Core DBT Modalities

Module 2 expands on the basics of DBT and takes a closer look at some of its core modalities. You will learn how to:

• Recognize core and common dialectics found in DBT
• Identify DBT’s 4 modalities — individual sessions, skills group, phone coaching and peer consultation
• Prioritize life-threatening, self-harming, and treatment interfering behaviors
• Integrate the use of diary cards into your client’s treatment plans
• Conduct peer consultation and individual sessions

Skills Group and Core Mindfulness Principles

This module outlines how to lead a successful skills group and goes into detail on the first core skills group module — mindfulness. You’ll learn how to:

• Organize your skills group sessions efficiently
• Integrate the core principles of mindfulness into your treatment strategies
• Teach your clients about “wise mind” and how to use this tool to aid in mindfulness practice
• Resolve issues that arise in group effectively

Skills Training Continued

Building on the last module, module 4 details skills from the remaining three DBT skills group modules including how to:

• Help your clients improve the quality of their relationships by increasing interpersonal effectiveness skills
• Teach emotional regulation skills utilizing strategies such as fact checking, coping ahead and core mindfulness principles
• Improve distress tolerance skills in your clients by teaching radical acceptance

Dialectics in DBT

In this module we’ll explore dialectics in DBT. You will learn how to:

• Identify the 3 core treatment strategies in DBT – change, validation and dialectical strategies
• Help your clients find the middle path between two contradictory ideas
• Help your clients to see both black and white at the same time (the goal of dialectics)
• Recognize the 3 dialectical dilemmas and how to spot these thought patterns in your clients

Behavioral Change Strategies

In this module you’ll learn the behavioral interventions and methods that are most effective in changing behaviors. You’ll learn how to:

• Develop and manage behavioral contingencies
• Determine the best strategies for changing your client’s behavior
• Apply classical conditioning techniques to improve therapeutic outcomes
• Recognize therapy interfering behavior and reduce its influence in your sessions

Telephone Coaching and Behavioral Chain Analysis

This module covers phone coaching and shows you how to conduct a behavior chain analysis. Topics include:

• Determine best practices and guidelines for incorporating phone coaching into your client’s treatment plan
• Neutralize issues that arise with phone coaching including therapy interfering behaviors
• Identify precipitating events and vulnerability factors associated with undesirable behaviors and events
• Teach your clients how to conduct a behavioral chain analysis

Validation Strategies

Module 8 covers the use of validation strategies in DBT treatment. You’ll learn how to:

• Identify the different types of validation and how to determine which one to use with your client during a session
• Use the concept of radical genuineness to validate even your most difficult clients
• Establish boundaries in the application of validation
• Teach clients how to use DBT skills for ethical decision making