SKILLS TRAINING IN DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOUR THERAPY: THE ESSENTIALS, September 2012

This two-day course offers a comprehensive introduction to DBT skills training. It is designed for all mental health professionals who want to learn to teach or to improve their teaching of DBT skills to clients. This training covers the fundamentals of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Skills: Core Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness. Participants learn how to set up a group, the group goals and guidelines, begin to teach skills, be a co-leader, identify and solve common problems in skills groups, make skills lectures come alive, give meaningful homework assignments, and review homework assignments in a way that promotes active engagement with different client populations and settings. Instructors will use lecture, practice assignments, role-play, homework review, and question and answer to provide participants with a practical, experiential learning environment. Participants will get substantially more benefit from the training if they have read Linehan’s (1993) Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder prior to attending.

Methods of instruction include lecture, demonstration, and practice exercises to teach the principles and strategies of DBT. Handouts are provided.
 

Learning Objectives

•    Participants will learn the content of four skills training modules of DBT: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness.
•    Participants will learn to apply relevant DBT strategies within psycho-educational skills training.
•    Participants will learn how to organize and to structure skills training classes for clients.
•    Participants will learn how to treat therapy-interfering behaviours of clients and therapists

The presenters will be two trainers (to be confirmed) from our DBTNZ team. This training has previously been offered in New Zealand.

1. Registrations are confirmed only when payment is received by credit card (with Paypal), electronically or by cheque.
2. Payment must be made before the training. By registering you accept liability for the costs of the training.
3. Cancellations must be notified to us by email (or the website contact form) with full identifying information.
4. Cancellations received more than seven days before the event will receive a refund of the fees paid less an administration charge of $50 (for each event).
5. Refunds cannot be given after that date. Refunds will not be available until after the event.
6. A colleague may be substituted for no extra charge if we are notified at least two business days before the training event.
7. In the unlikely event the training is cancelled by the organisers, registration will be fully refunded but no liability will be accepted for travel, accommodation or other costs/expenses incurred to registrants.