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DBT Crash Course for Clinicians: 15 Core Techniques to Improve Emotional Regulation, Manage Distress and More

DBT is one of today’s most in-demand treatments, trusted by countless clinicians to provide their clients with the skills they need to manage their emotions, overcome their distress, and create positive change.

Whether they’ve been diagnosed with trauma, anxiety, depression or any number of the conditions you see in your office each day, DBT empowers clients to navigate the challenges of everyday life and relationships so they can heal, grow, and achieve their goals.

And it’s all done from a skills-building perspective that moves you away from change-based models that can feel overwhelming or unattainable for clients.

Now you can take home over a dozen of the most powerful skill-building exercises from DBT in just one training.

Led by certified DBT therapist Lexi Mulee, LMHC, C-DBT, this training will equip you to start using the DBT techniques she’s found most effective in her own practice so you can:

Provide clients with the tools they need to better manage intense emotions
Show clients how they can accept distressing situations without judgment or resistance
Quickly build clients ability to cope in healthier ways
Give clients the skills they need to create positive emotional connections with others
Improve communication and boundary setting skills with clients
Rapidly interrupt clients’ self-defeating and self-sabotaging patterns
And much more!

Plus you’ll get printable worksheets that make it simple to start using these proven DBT exercises with clients right away.

Don’t wait to get the fundamental DBT skills you need to succeed.

Purchase now!

Program Information

Objectives

Gain a comprehensive understanding of the origins and foundational concepts of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT).
Develop an understanding of the neurobiology of emotional dysregulation and how DBT interventions can effectively address it.
Discuss the effectiveness of DBT in reducing self-directed violence, including suicide attempts, non-suicidal self injury (NSSI), and accessing psychiatric crisis services.
Apply validation strategies in DBT to enhance therapeutic rapport and promote positive change.
Utilize mindfulness exercises for emotional regulation and symptom management in DBT practice.
Evaluate the effectiveness of DBT with a diverse range of clients including individuals with substance use disorders, anxiety, and depression.

Outline

DBT Foundations and Fundamentals

Main goals and history as an evidencebased treatment
DBT practice components and the 4 modules of DBT
Balancing acceptance and change
Validation skills to build a therapeutic alliance
The effectiveness of DBT for clients with depression, anxiety, SUDs, and more
Realities of DBT for clinicians – potential benefits and drawbacks
DBT skills training for suicidal clients
Research, limitations, and treatment risks
Indications, contraindications, costs, and alternative treatments

DBT Mindfulness Techniques: Enhance Treatment through Client Awareness and Acceptance

“Wise mind” in decision making and problem solving
One Mindful: fully engage in the present moment without distraction
Pocket Mindfulness: brief exercises to manage stress and regulate emotions
Cultivating acceptance and letting go of self-judgment and criticism

5 DBT Techniques to Manage Distress and Shift Perspectives

Riding the Wave exercise to navigate emotional turbulence
Radical Acceptance of distressing situations without judgment or resistance
Using the STOP techniques to interrupt automatic patterns
How to teach clients to better manage intense emotions with the TIPP technique
Using ACCEPTS to help clients develop healthier coping skills

The DBT Toolkit for Emotional Regulation and Coping

The connection between emotions and physical sensations
Exercises to enhance emotional awareness and recognition
Opposite action skill to change emotional responses
Checking the facts skill to challenge emotional assumptions and biases

Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills for Better Communications and Boundary Setting

Emotional Bank Account - build and maintain positive emotional connections
Using the DEARMAN technique for effective communication
Assertive skills for saying “No” and setting boundaries
Using the Alternate Rebellion technique to help clients who struggle with oppositional behavior

Other Key Clinical Considerations: Skills Groups, Integration Strategies and Culturally Adapted Practices

Using DBT individually or with skills groups
Best practices in conducting culturally adapted DBT interventions
Integrating and prioritizing DBT skills into a provider’s treatment as usual

Case Studies and Demonstrations

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Art Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Case Managers
Physicians
Nurses
Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 11/30/2023

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Made Easy: ACT for PTSD, Anxiety, Depression & Personality Disorders

Are your current techniques just not working?

You’ve experienced the frustration; you have a client who seems to just not break through. You’ve tried your best, but the outcome is the same: he or she progresses for a while, then regresses again.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is the popular transdiagnostic approach that you can integrate into your practice to achieve positive therapeutic outcomes with difficult-to-treat clients.

Watch ACT expert and presenter Daniel J. Moran as he delivers an exercise and intervention-heavy course that will give you the tools you need to more effectively treat clients with PTSD, anxiety, depression or personality disorders.

You’ll learn how ACT weaves mindfulness strategies with cognitive behavioral change strategies to revolutionize client outcomes, as well as discover a variety of ACT techniques for helping clients who are struggling to make difficult behavior changes due to the presence of painful thoughts, feelings and memories.

By shifting client focus to their own values, ACT sets clients up to embrace behavior change that is meaningful to them while simultaneously fostering skills that allow clients to more effectively handle impulsive actions based on current thoughts or emotions.

Purchase today, and Dr. Moran will guide you step-by-step through highly practical, evidence-based ACT skills that you can apply in your practice immediately!

Program Information

Objectives

Appraise ACT concepts such as experiential avoidance and cognitive fusion in session.
Assess client’s fusion with thoughts about the past or future and illustrate mindfulness exercises to clients in a clinical setting.
Evaluate the role of psychological flexibility in ACT and devise interventions for increasing it to improve treatment outcomes.
Construct emotional and behavioral willingness exercises to address experiential avoidance.
Analyze the efficacy of exercises in values clarification as it relates to treatment outcomes.
Integrate the ACT approach into treatment to address clinically-relevant issues for specific disorders including depression, anxiety, trauma and personality disorders.

Outline

The ACT Model

Pain vs. suffering
Language as a double-edged sword
Goal: Psychological flexibility
Limitations of the research & potential risks

Components of the ACT Model

Acceptance: Foster Client Acceptance of Emotions to Increase Values-Based Action

What should be accepted?
The problem with controlling thoughts
How to sidestep the happiness trap
Spot common phrases of non-acceptance
Experiential avoidance
How to help clients understand acceptance
Experiential Exercise: The finger trap

Defusion: Change the Way Clients Interact with Their Thoughts

Relational frame theory & mental health
Undermine unhelpful language processes
Give clients skills to notice their thoughts
How to decrease believability of unhelpful thoughts
Aid clients in changing the functions of their thoughts
Experiential Exercise: Notice the meaning of language

Self-As-Context: Aid Clients in Establishing Their Identities

The three different versions of the self
How to describe the “observer self” to clients
How to distance the self from thoughts & emotions
The chess board metaphor
Experiential Exercise: ”I am” exercise

Contact with the Present Moment: Strategies to Build Attention to the Here & Now

How language affects mindfulness
Goals of mindfulness
ThoughtFit exercises
How do we teach clients to be mindful?
How to build focus on values
Obstacles in teaching mindfulness
Experiential Exercise:Mindfulness meditation

Values: Aid Clients in Deciding What Gives Live Meaning

What are values?
How to help clients author their values
Values vs. goals
When clients are “stuck”
Values assessment
- Batteries exercise
- Epitaph exercise

Committed Action: Assist Clients in Behaving in the Service of Chosen Values

Persistent inaction, impulsivity or avoidance
Address rule-governed behavior
Exposure & ritual prevention strategies
The Mindful Action Plan

ACT in Action

PTSD

Function of trauma symptoms
Experiential avoidance in PTSD
Increase psychological safety
Dominating concepts of the past & future
Trauma-informed mindfulness exercises

Anxiety

Client avoidance & escape strategies
Assessment tools
Address reason-giving as a barrier
Strategies to increase willingness
Anxiety Detector exercise

Depression

Values contradiction
How experiential avoidance impacts depression
Fusion to the damaged conceptualized self
Behavioral activation strategies

Personality Disorders

Coping strategies
Increase emotional tolerance
Target the client’s story
Experiential avoidance from the therapist

Target Audience

Social Workers
Counselors
Psychologists
Physicians
Marriage and Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Psychotherapists
Case Managers
Nurses
Mental Health Professionals
Therapists

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Training: Master the Core Skills and Competencies of CBT

You probably have a few “go to” CBT interventions that work really well.

After all, it’s one of the most effective, evidence-based treatments for chronic, recurring, and challenging mental health issues.

But lately, you’ve noticed that CBT is feeling repetitive for clients… and yourself. Sessions just aren’t going anywhere, far too often stalling before meaningful progress is made.

Now, you can reinvigorate your use of CBT with new and easy ways to turn the corner on some of your toughest clinical impasses.

Led by Dr. Charles Jacob, an expert who’s helped thousands of clinicians get the most out of CBT, you’ll not only be getting the perfect refresher course so you can bolster your grasp on CBT essentials…

…you’ll also discover how you can make this proven clinical tool feel innovative and exciting to use in your treatment plans for trauma, anxiety, depression anger and more.

Program Information

Objectives

Apply evidence-based CBT techniques to multiple symptom sets to improve treatment outcomes.
Choose methods for conducting CBT psychoeducation to elicit “buy in” from difficult clients.
Utilize CBT techniques to identify and challenge clients’ dysfunctional self-talk, thoughts and behaviors to improve client level of functioning.
Develop CBT informed case conceptualizations for a range of DSM-5® diagnoses.
Implement rapport-building tools to improve the therapeutic alliance and client engagement.
Evaluate behavioral activation strategies useful for improving treatment resistant depression, anxiety, or other presenting concerns.

Outline

CBT Essentials

Evolution of Cognitive Behavioral Therapies
Latest CBT Outcome Research
Basics of Schemas

Key Components of CBT Practice

Structuring Session for Progress
Feedback-informed Treatment
Guided Discovery for Effective Solutions
Collaborative Empiricism
Homework

Treatment Concepts

Introduce and Motivate Clients with CBT
Building Strong Rapport with Directive Models
Levels of Cognition
Eliciting & Labeling Distortions
Identify & Evaluate Automatic Thoughts
Thoughts and Beliefs Differentiation
Technology and Mood Monitoring

Application to Clinical Practice

CBT Case Conceptualization
Case Studies
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Anger
- Trauma
- OCD

Offshoot Models

Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
Narrative Therapy

Target Audience

Psychologists
Psychiatrists
Counselors
Social Workers
Psychotherapists
Marriage and Family Therapists
Case Managers
Addiction Counselors
Other Mental Health Professionals