Full Course Description

3-Day: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Certification Training

Dialectical Behavior Therapy is a powerful, evidence-based treatment that allows clinicians to provide positive outcomes for clients of all ages struggling with stress, depression, trauma, suicidal and self-destructive behaviors and a variety of other clinical presentations.

This 3-day Certification Training will build the core competencies you need to bring DBT into your clinical practice and effectively use it with a wide range of client types. In just 3 days you’ll be given a roadmap to treat individuals using the skills and techniques from DBT so you can help your most challenging clients reach new levels of healing.

Even if you’ve attended other Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) trainings, this program will increase your competency and clinical sophistication with DBT when working with adults, youth, substance users and trauma survivors in a wide variety of settings.

Best of all, upon completion of this seminar, 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.

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

PESI, Evergreen Certification Institute, and Charles Jacob, Ph.D., are not affiliated or associated with Marsha M. Linehan, PhD, ABPP, or her organizations.

Program Information

Objectives

Analyze the origins of Biosocial Theory and communicate the clinical implications of the theory.
Determine how DBT skills can help clients identify unhealthy interaction styles.
Determine how mindfulness skills can empower clients to interpret situations in new ways and react in healthier ways.
Demonstrate how clinicians can effectively teach DBT skills and 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.
Demonstrate how DBT skills can be utilized to identify and overcome obstacles to changing emotions and reactive behaviors.
Devise ways in which DBT can be adapted for working with children and adolescents.
Appraise how DBT can be used in working with trauma survivors.
Demonstrate how diary cards can be used by clients to monitor their emotions and track how they are using DBT skills to deal with challenges.
Effectively 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.
Support how interpersonal effectiveness exercises can be employed in therapy to help clients keep relationship without sacrificing their self-respect.
Utilize a pros and cons list that can help clients see the consequences of their actions and make better choices when they are faced with a difficult decision.
Apply strategies to confront therapy interfering behaviors 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.
Demonstrate how the STOP skills can help clients to manage crisis situations and prevent them from doing something impulsive they might regret later.
Determine how clinicians can use the levels of validation to enhance the therapeutic alliance and teach clients to validate themselves.
Employ 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 acceptance
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
Social Workers
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
Nurses
Physicians
Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 08/18/2021

2-Day Intensive Training: Mindfulness Certification Course

This 2-day Certification training is your chance to become a Certified Mindfulness Informed Professional (CMIP) and get the skills and guidance you need to successfully incorporate mindfulness practices into your treatment plans!

And unlike other Mindfulness Certification programs that are too expensive, too time consuming, and require extensive travel, this training is completely within your reach!

Dr. Debra Alvis is a clinical psychologist and expert on mindfulness who developed the Mind/Body Program at the University of Georgia. Dr. Alvis lectures and leads retreats around the world and her trainings have helped thousands of clinicians to integrate the richness of Mindfulness into therapy for greater clinical effectiveness.

Watch her during this 2-day intensive training and get:

How-to instruction on using mindfulness-based exercises with clients working through stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, anger, and addiction
Specific guidance on using mindfulness with individuals and groups
Feedback and tips on how you can strengthen your personal mindfulness practice

Enhance your clinical practice, and fundamentally improve the lives of your clients as a Certified Mindfulness Informed Professional (CMIP)!

Program Information

Objectives

Review the empirical support concerning the clinical applications of mindfulness.
Utilize easy to understand language to describe how mindfulness affects the neurological processes underlying clinical disorders.
Assess for potential contraindications for the use of mindfulness with clients.
Apply mindfulness skills to strengthen the therapeutic alliance.
Employ mindfulness practices to impact the stress reaction and shift clients to a relaxation response.
Use the mindfulness skills of awareness and metacognition to counter automatic thought patterns related to anxiety and depression.
Apply loving-kindness meditations to increase client well-being and relationship quality.
Practice the use of R.A.I.N. (Recognize, Accept, Investigate, Non-Attachment) to identify triggers and work with cravings that could lead to addiction relapse.
Utilize present-moment awareness and deep breathing practices to manage physiological and emotional anger responses.
Employ grounding techniques and breathing exercises to increase feelings of safety in traumatized clients.
Integrate brief mindfulness practices into clinical treatment to improve client engagement.
Demonstrate the three steps of the Giving and Receiving Self-compassion practice to increase clinician presence and improve clinical outcomes.
Adapt mindfulness practices for diverse populations to improve clinical efficacy.

Outline

Mindfulness and the Clinician:
“Know What You Teach” and “Teach What You Know”

Empirical support for improved symptomology and well-being
The latest research on therapists who practice mindfulness
Your mindfulness practice and how you can embody mindfulness
Situations that may contraindicate applying mindfulness in session
Research limitations

Mindfulness Psychoeducation Approaches:
Easy to Use Strategies to Enhance Motivation in Therapy

Mindfulness vocabulary
Visuals and metaphors to explain mindfulness
Motivate clients with neuroplasticity

Deepen the Therapeutic Relationship:
Build Presence, Trust and Empathetic Connection with Clients

Overcoming barriers
Affect regulation techniques for therapist and client
Strategies to create empathetic connection
Exercises to build clients trust in themselves

Teach Mindfulness to Clients:
Formal and Informal Mindfulness Practices

Tips for teaching clients about the senses and awareness
Strategies to shift from “Automatic Pilot”
Skill building interventions to increase responsiveness & reduce reactivity
Strategies to cultivate attunement
Approaches for deepened experience of mindfulness
Brief and other informal practices
How to adapt practices to special populations

Group Therapy vs. Individual Sessions

Effectiveness of group vs. individual mindfulness
How to set up and conduct a mindfulness group
- Screening for individual goodness of fit
- Encouraging client buy-in and commitment to practice
Mindfulness interventions specifically designed for groups

Anxiety and Stress:
Mindfulness Interventions to Relax the Body and Mind

Breathing practices that break the rumination cycle
Guided visualizations to lower the stress response
Movement strategies
Multi-sensory regulation techniques
Mindfully reduce the intensity of panic attacks

Mindfulness for Trauma:
Disempower Intrusive Thoughts

Muscle tension releasing – exercises to counter fight or flight
Guided meditations to disempower intrusive thoughts
Grounding exercises and sample scripts

Using Mindfulness in Depression Treatment

Recognize self-criticism and respond with self-love
Manage negative self-talk with awareness of thoughts
Meditations to boost well-being

Mindfulness for Addictions: Break the Habit Loop

Awareness vs. autopilot -- relapse prevention
Mindfulness for triggers
Emotional regulation for cravings

Mindful Anger: Breathing and Self-Soothing Techniques

Breathe through anger
Distraction and grounding techniques
Self-soothe with calming words and imagery

Mindfulness, Diversity, & Cultural Humility

Adapt mindfulness experiences with cultural sensitivity
Assess appropriateness of mindfulness interventions for individuals
Negotiate the treatment plan

Mindfully Conquer Compassion Fatigue

Right here/right now – stay in the moment to reduce anxieties
Effective and healthy ways to manage your emotions
Change limiting stories about caring for yourself
Release the negative – 3 steps to countering negativity bias

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Marriage and Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
School Counselors
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals