Adapting your DBT Programme for Adolescents: Helping Emotionally Dysregulated & Suicidal Teens - October 2013

Auckland.

Training Description

Professionals working with suicidal adolescents with multiple problems are often challenged by complex clinical presentations and the many dilemmas that arise during treatment. Learn how to apply comprehensive DBT to an adolescent population to engage and retain clients. This two-day training covers how to convey the biosocial theory of DBT to adolescents and families, how to describe dialectical dilemmas relevant to adolescents and families, targets for adolescents in DBT, phone coaching with adolescents and families, principles of including families in treatment, and how to structure and run multi-family skills training groups.

This workshop is appropriate for experienced individual psychotherapists with a reasonable familiarity with DBT. Participants will advance their ability in specific principles and strategies relevant to skills training and coaching with adolescents and families, individual therapy, family sessions, and managing communication and coaching outside of session (e.g. phone calls, emails, texts, etc.). Specific attention will be paid to teaching adolescents and families the skills of dialectics, validation, and behaviour change (the "Middle Path").

Learning Objectives

1. Become familiar with existing treatment outcome research for suicidal multi-problem adults and adolescents
2. Identify how the theory, principles, functions, and modes of comprehensive DBT apply to working with adolescents and families
3. Convey the biosocial theory to adolescents and families
4. Employ DBT commitment strategies with adolescents
5. Target problematic behaviours
6. Discuss dialectical dilemmas relevant to adolescents and families
7. Structure and run a multi-family skills training group
8. Involve families in DBT.

Training Level

The training will be pitched at an intermediate level

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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
8. no liability will be accepted for travel, accommodation or other costs/expenses incurred to registrants.