Whether you're new to Dialectical Behavior Therapy or looking for new ways to expand your current DBT skills, this training will give you advanced interventions and practical clinical tools to use with adults, youth, substance users, and trauma survivors in a wide variety of settings.

Designed for counselors, social workers, psychologists, addiction counselors, marriage and family therapists, and other mental health professionals…

…you'll get access to 3 full days of training on the core aspects of DBT and how to use them in your practice ABSOLUTELY FREE.

And on September 18^th–20^th, you can join your colleagues and Lane Pederson, PsyD, LP, C-DBT, LIVE where you'll receive:

• 3 days of LIVE expert-led training
• The complete set of course materials
• On-demand access to the recording for 14 days
• And the opportunity to get your questions answered live during the training

This unique opportunity for free DBT training may not come again…

And at no cost, you've got nothing to lose!

More than just the basics, you'll get the ins and outs of the foundational approach of DBT so you can easily customize your DBT approach client-by-client. You'll learn how to:

• Adapt DBT with different populations to maximize flexibility and positive outcomes
• Overcome common stumbling blocks to implementing DBT
• Employ exercises to help clients keep relationships without sacrificing self-respect
• Successfully confront therapy-interfering behaviors
• Use interventions to reduce feelings of shame, guilt, and fear
• Reduce self-harm and suicidal behaviors
• Teach clients how to use diary cards to monitor emotions... and MORE!

Click here for the 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 experience
• 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

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