Overview

This sixteen session Intensive “Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Training” has been designed for self-paced learning and it is hoped that it will assist clinicians gain knowledge of how to work with DBT and how to work as individual therapists and as Group Facilitators using DBT. Information on how to set up a DBT program including Therapists Consult groups is also detailed in the online training. Optional creative exercises are added to the Skills section of the program as a variation to the structured cognitive learning of the skills. Many clients over the years have enjoyed this aspect of the learning and appreciate having a concrete original object that replicates the skill they have learnt to view at any time reminding them of the techniques that assist them.

Face to Face Training is still an option for specific organizations.

 Course Outline

Session 1: Introduction – Biosocial Theory of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), DSM IV, V. Description of DBT, Australian and USA Statistics.

Session 2: Five functions of Treatment, 2015 New DBT Training Manual, Standards and Modes of Treatment, Researched Model of DBT description – Adults and Adolescents. The Four Modules of DBT, Assumptions in DBT

Session 3: The Styles of DBT, Validation, Dialectics, Encouragement, Genuineness, Irreverent Communication

Session 4: Pre-Treatment Stage, Client/Therapist agreements, Hierarchy of Targets, Hitting and Impass. Primary and Secondary Targets of DBT

Session 5:  Individual DBT Therapy, session structure and timing, crisis intervention, risk factors for suicide, phone coaching, how to handle calls when your client is lonely, treating wilfulness when it shows up, Diary Card, Chain Analysis, Environmental intervention. Discussion of Adult and Adolescent Training Manuals

SKILLS

Session 6: Wise Mind Skill of DBT, The Brain and Emotions

Session 7: Mindfulness

Session 8: TIPP, Wise Mind Accepts – Distraction, Self-soothe

Session 9: STOP, Improve the Moment

Session 10: Checking the Facts, Reality/Radical Acceptance

Session 11: Emotional Regulation – Model of Emotions, Opposite Action,

Session 12: Validate your Vulnerabilities, Know your Triggers, Primary and Secondary Emotions, Mindfulness to current emotions, Managing extreme emotions.

Session 13: Chemistry, Labelling emotions, Reducing Vulnerability, Building relationships and ending destructive relationships, Increase positive emotions, Coping Ahead, Decrease emotional suffering

Session 14: Interpersonal Effectiveness – Goals, DEAR MAN GIVE FAST, Factors reducing Interpersonal Effectiveness

Session 15: Skills Training Group

Session 16: Walking the Middle Path, exclusion criteria, Implementing DBT into a System, DBT Consultation Team Agreements, Structure of a Consult Team

Resources & an evaluation.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:

• gain knowledge of the philosophy of DBT, the structure of the therapy and statistical information on the researched model.
• gain knowledge of how to teach ‘crisis survival’ techniques and address suicide ideation, self-harm and impulsive destructive behaviours of clients
• gain knowledge in how to work dialectically using validation and acceptance strategies with clients
• gain knowledge in how to look after oneself as a clinician and gain supportive supervision within the DBT frame to help assist in working with clients who present with high levels of emotional dysfunction
• gain knowledge of all four skills of DBT, Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotional Regulation and Interpersonal Effectives, including the addition of new skills added in 2nd Edition DBT Training Manual 2015 (Prof Marsha Linehan). The Adolescent Manual created by Jill Rathus and Alec Miller (2014) will also be discussed
• gain knowledge in how to teach a skills training group.
• gain knowledge in working with many client groups that experience emotional dysregulation and working with DBT with adolescents.

Presenter(s)

Megan Shiell

About the presenter(s)

Megan Shiell is passionate about the way Dialectical Behaviour Therapy can assist sufferers of emotional dysregulation. Over the past 9 year she has trained over 1,500 clinicians in the use of DBT and also in the use of DBT alongside an experiential therapy Art Therapy. Megan has presented both in Australia, and Internationally on the subject of DBT and its uses in mental health arenas and has published her work in DBT and Art Therapy in the ANZATA Journal 2008. Megan has recently written a chapter in a book titled “DBT-Informed Art Therapy in Practice” edited by Susan M. Clark to be published later in 2020. Megan conducts some Face to Face intensive DBT training programs for organizations in other regions of Australia. This online training replicates the 2 day Live Webinar DBT Intensive Training. Her passion is to train as many Clinicians as possible in how to assist their clients using DBT.
This is why she has developed this 16 Session online course for clinicians to do at the own pace and to be able to refer back to this material whenever they wish.

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Website/s

http://www.expressivetherapyclinic.com.au