Dialectical Behavior Therapy for the Real World: Apply DBT for Various Clients – Delicia Mclean

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Practical Approach to Application of DBT
People’s learning and change styles are influenced by multiple factors including genetic makeup, early learning experiences, previous teaching, culture, and motivation. Clients with various mental health conditions have learned harmful coping strategies that keep them stuck. These behaviors interfere with their abilities to develop a life worth living.

Clients learn better and recover more quickly when therapeutic teaching methods match their preferred learning styles. However, a gap exists between therapists’ knowledge and application that can often be the difference between lasting behavioral change and continued struggle for their clients. This recording teaches you how to use each of the DBT skill areas (mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness) to effectively promote change in both a group and individual setting. Gain an understanding of how to apply these skills to clients with multiple and complex mental health conditions. At the end of the recording, you can confidentially apply the step-by-step process for conducting DBT, troubleshoot common problems in group therapy, and enhance motivation and commitment to treatment.

1. escribe how to apply dialectical behavior therapy to a wide range of your clients’ situations and/or mental health disorders
2. Apply dialectical behavior therapy in session with clients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD)
3. Implement dialectical behavior therapy in a step-by-step method to enhance clinical outcomes in group and individual therapy sessions
4. Examine the research behind the application of dialectical behavior therapy in clinical treatment
5. Design clinical treatment plans that incorporate dialectical behavior therapy to increase positive emotions and decrease emotional suffering
6. Describe how a clinician can manage client behaviors that interfere with dialectical behavior therapy treatment

DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOR THERAPY: OVERVIEW

• Dialectics
• Model of DBT
• DBT effectiveness research
• DBT skills training in a group format
• DBT skills training in an individual format
• Teaching dialectics
• Homework assignments and noncompliance
• Managing treatment interfering behaviors

CORE MINDFULNESS SKILLS

• States of mind
• What skills
• Activities for what skills
• How skills
• Activities for how skills
• Hands-on training

DISTRESS TOLERANCE SKILLS

• Crisis survival strategies
• Wise mind ACCEPTS
• Self-soothing skills
• IMPROVE the moment
• Pros and cons sheet
• Radical acceptance
• Half-smiling

EMOTION REGULATION SKILLS

• Framework for understanding emotions
• Biopsychosocial model of emotions
• Increase positive emotions
• Decrease emotional suffering
• Opposite action

INTERPERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS SKILLS

• Prioritization for effective interpersonal strategy
• Attending to relationships
• Getting and keeping relationships
• Self-respect
• Factors interfering with interpersonal effectiveness
• Make requests
• Saying “no”