Full Course Description

Session 1 | Develop the Foundations of Successful DBT Practice

Dialectical Behavior Therapy is so popular because it works not only with difficult clinical problems like suicidal and self-injurious behaviors but also with depression, anxiety, trauma, and substance use disorders. And the skills and techniques used by DBT therapists enhance their lives too!

In eight easy online sessions plus a live weekly check-in and Q&A with Dr. Pederson, you’ll learn DBT from A to Z and feel confident bringing this powerful approach to your practice. And if you choose to dive deeper, Dr. Pederson will provide you supplemental readings and exercises each step of the way.

Best yet, this course not only teaches you DBT inside-out, but you’ll also meet the educational requirements for Certification in Dialectical Behavior Therapy through Evergreen Certification Institute (visit evgci.com for details).

Program Information

Objectives

Catalogue the basic therapeutic "ingredients" of DBT treatment strategies.
Investigate how DBT theory drives the clinician's choice of treatment interventions.
Employ an effective therapy structure that includes identifying clear treatment targets.
Apply outcome-based DBT interventions in-session that are consistent with evidence-based practices.
Demonstrate how to orient clients to using the diary card and its treatment implications.
Use the diary card to guide therapy session agenda planning.
Perform the process of behavior and solution analysis in relation to assessment and treatment planning.
Integrate elements of validation and exposure into the behavioral analysis process.
Practice integrating skills training into therapy and put to practical use in-session.
Formulate teaching strategies for skills training sessions.
Categorize the essential elements of mindfulness and their treatment implications.
Analyze at least three mindfulness myths as it relates to treatment outcomes.
Develop effective strategies for teaching crisis management skills to clients.
Demonstrate how to teach clients skills to reduce emotional vulnerability and balance emotions.
Construct techniques for the use of interpersonal effective skills as it relates to treatment goals.
Differentiate between validation, normalization, and affirmation as related to clinical treatment.
Utilize basic behavioral principles to improve client level of functioning.
Use contingency procedures to improve client engagement and reinforce treatment goals.
Determine five of the most effective behavior change methods as it relates to treatment outcomes.
Differentiate between reciprocal and irreverent communication styles in relation to clinical practice.
Develop contingency management for effective coaching towards reduction of symptoms and behavior changes in clients.
Determine the three main purposes of consultation in session.
Distinguish the qualities of effective treatment teams and the impact on client's treatment.
Evaluate the benefits and limitations of treatment adherence as related to clinical treatment.
Analyze a DBT session in relation to adherence measure.
Develop a plan to conduct self-guided adherence assessments for clients.
Evaluate the five essential best practices of suicide assessment.
Differentiate between self-harm and suicidal behaviors and its treatment implications.
Propose the essential components of a safety assessment and use in-session.
Construct the key components of a comprehensive safety plan to improve treatment outcomes.

Outline

Module 1 – Develop the Foundations of Successful DBT Practice

Overview of DBT

The “ingredients” that comprise DBT
Explicit focus on validation
Cognitive-behavioral change strategies
Dialectical balance
Skills training
Mindfulness
Consultative Approach

Dialectics in Practice

Dialectics explained
Dialectic assumptions
Dialectics in action

Core Assumptions of DBT

Acceptance and nonjudgmental stance
View of clients, therapists, and therapy
What’s needed in a DBT clinical process

Biosocial Model

Biosocial theory of difficulties
How theory drives therapy

Structuring Therapy

Structure as a therapeutic factor
Structure the therapy environment
Understand DBT’s “stage-wise” approach to treatment
Identify treatment priorities using the Treatment Hierarchy: Suicidality, Self-injurious behavior (SIB), Therapy-interfering behavior (TIB), and other targets

Making DBT Evidence-based

Treatment Fidelity versus Evidence-based Practice
Using Data in Practice
Risks and Limitations

Module 2 – Learn the Diary Card and Behavior and Solution Analysis

Diary Cards

Standard
Adapted for special populations
Orienting the client to the diary card
Filling out the diary card
Use of the diary card to fashion therapy agendas

Behavior and Solution Analysis

Understanding the process of behavior analysis
Integrating validation and exposure into the process
Identify what is reinforcing the behavior
Problem-solve with skills

Module 3 - Mastering Skills Training Part One: Skills Training Techniques, Mindfulness, and Dialectics

Skills Training Demystified

Skills training methods
Individual versus group skills training
Skills training checklist

Mindfulness: The Path to Wise Mind

What Skills: Observe, Describe, Participate
How Skills: Nonjudgmental, One-mindful, Effectively
Mindfulness Practice and Application

Teaching Dialectics

Identify dialectical dilemmas
Recognize the dialectical balance in skill use
Use exercises to increase dialectical thought and action

Module 4 – Mastering Skills Training Part Two: Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness

Distress Tolerance

Wise Mind ACCEPTS
IMPROVE the Moment
Pros and Cons
Radical Acceptance/Turning the Mind

Emotion Regulation

Model of Emotions
PLEASED
Build Positive Experiences
Opposite Action

Interpersonal Effectiveness

FAST skills
GIVE skills
DEAR MAN skills

Module 5 – Effective Balance of Validation and Behavior Change Techniques

Validation

Multi-layered approach to validation
Validation as an exposure technique
Balance of validation and change

Change Interventions

Behavioral principals
Contingency procedures
Best behavior change methods
DBT-style cognitive interventions

Orienting and Commitment Strategies

Module 6 – Use of self and communication styles, telephone and other coaching, and consultation and treatment teams

Communication Styles

Reciprocal
Irreverent

Telephone and Other Coaching

Defining the Service
Maintaining Professional Limits
Contingency Management

Consultative Group and Treatment Teams

Increase your motivation
Develop effective responses
Qualities of effective treatment teams

Module 7 – DBT in Action

Adherence Measure

Adherence defined
Benefits and limitations of adherence
Measure Explanation

Watch the DBT Session and practice with the adherence measure

Module 8 – Suicide and Self-Injury Assessment and Intervention

Defining Self-Injurious and Suicidal Behavior

Assess and Manage Self-Injurious Behavior (SIB)

When is SIB life-threatening and other dilemmas
Creating alternatives

Assess and Manage Suicidal Ideation (SI)

Suicide assessment techniques
Establishing safety protocols
Safety plans and safety commitments

Hospitalization Issues

Effective use of the hospital
Transitions in and out

Target Audience

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

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Session 2 | Learn the Diary Card and Behavior and Solution Analysis

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Session 3 | Mastering Skills Training Part One: Skills Training Techniques, Mindfulness, and Dialectics

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Session 4 | Mastering Skills Training Part Two: Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness

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Session 5 | Effective Balance of Validation and Behavior Change Techniques

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Session 6 | Use of self and communication styles, telephone and other coaching, and consultation and treatment teams

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Session 7 | DBT in Action

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Session 8 | Suicide and Self-Injury Assessment and Intervention Defining Self-Injurious and Suicidal Behavior

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Q&A Call #1 with Lane Pederson

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Outline

Why we need a new treatment for overcontrolled disorders;
The development of RO DBT and key difference from other treatments;
Key studies supporting RO DBT’s feasibility, acceptability and efficacy;
Brief introduction to the RO DBT treatment structure;
In RO DBT, silliness is no laughing matter!
How did we survive without claws, horns or being too thick-skinned? Tribe matters!
Self-control as a precursor for community;
Bio-temperament as a unifying principle for understanding chronic conditions;
Introduction to the Bio-social theory of disorders of overcontrol.
RO DBT starts by observing what’s healthy about all of us;
The RO DBT Bio-Social Theory for Disorders of Overcontrol:
- The Nurture component;
- The Coping component;
Social signaling matters;
How to teach the bio-social module to your clients
Neuroception, or ‘scanning the world for cues’
The five classes of emotionally relevant stimuli: Safety, Novelty, Reward, Threat, and Overwhelming threat or reward.
Mr Bean’s adventure: applying the neuroregulatory theory
Using skills to activate the social safety system: The Big 3+1
Defining overcontrol
Assessing styles of coping: overcontrol and undercontrol
Social signaling differences between OC and UC
Common errors and problematic assumptions
Diagnosing overcontrol step by step
Two OC subtypes
RO DBT treatment structure: Orientation & Commitment
RO DBT treatment structure: Treatment Phase
Primary treatment targets
Treatment hierarchy
The key to effective treatment targeting
Tools for treatment targeting: Valued-goals, Diary Cards, Chain Analysis
Overview of the RO DBT skills
Case example

Objectives

Recognize the importance of applying treatments that match individual clients’ styles of coping to improve clinical outcomes.
Appraise the need for new treatments for clients with an overcontrolled style of coping that has remained largely unrecognized to date.
Evaluate the efficacy of RO DBT for clients with an overcontrolled style of coping.
Recognize the importance of feeling part of a tribe for mental and physical well-being and apply this knowledge to understanding the impact of the lack of feelings of belonginess for overcontrolled individuals.
Compare and explain the differences between overcontrolled and undercontrolled bio-temperament and how these impact perception and emotion regulation strategies in social situations.
Integrate the three components of the bio-social theory for disorders of overcontrol into your case formulization of clients.
Utilize the bio-social theory for disorders of overcontrol with clients early on in treatment.
Understand how our neural substrates are linked to social signaling and apply this knowledge to reverse the process by using body postures and facial expressions to activate neural substrates linked to social safety and reward.
Integrate the neuroregulatory model with the bio-social theory for overcontrolled disorders to better understand why overcontrolled clients have trouble activating their social safety system.
Apply the Big Three +1 Skill to activate social safety within yourself and teach this skill to your clients whenever tension is present
Compare and assess the social signaling styles of overcontrolled and undercontrolled clients.
Understand the common errors and assumptions made when assessing overcontrol and apply this knowledge to your own assessment procedures.
Use the Assessing Styles of Coping Word-Pair List to assess your own coping style.
Use the OC Trait Rating scale to assess the degree of ‘OC caseness’ of overcontrolled clients.
Compare and understand the differences between the two subtypes of overcontrol.
Describe and apply the RO DBT treatment structure to your own practice.
Understand the importance of RO therapeutic sequencing strategies.
Describe the RO individual treatment target hierarchy including the five OC social signaling themes.
Apply the bio-social theory to a case example.
Use the five social signaling themes to organise a client’s maladaptive behavior in preparation of treatment targeting.
Understand how to use the skills manual to select appropriate treatment interventions.

Target Audience

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

The Missing Dialectic: How RO DBT differs from DBT

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Objectives

Explain why undercontrolled clients will likely benefit more from DBT and overcontrolled clients will likely benefit more from RO DBT based on the core problems of the clients and primary treatment targets of each treatment.
Apply your new knowledge of the differences between undercontrolled and overcontrolled clients and DBT and RO DBT to client assessment and treatment allocation within your clinical practice.

Outline

Why do we need a new treatment?
The self-control dialectic: undercontrol and overcontrol
Similarities and differences between Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO DBT)
Video demonstrations of an individual RO DBT session and RO DBT skills class

Target Audience

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

The Expanded Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training Manual, 2nd Edition

Congratulations to Lane Pederson, and his book, The Expanded Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training Manual, 2nd Edition: DBT for Self-Help and Individual & Group Treatment Settings, for winning a silver medal at the 2018 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards for editorial and design excellence in both Psychology and Self-Help categories.

This second edition is the most comprehensive and readable DBT manual available with more skills than any other DBT book on the market.

Beyond updates to the classic skills modules, clients and therapists will be enriched by added modules that include Dialectics, Cognitive Modification, Problem-Solving, and Building Routines as well as all-new, much-needed modules on addictions and social media.

Designed for DBT therapists, eclectic and integrative therapists, and as a self-help guide for people interested in learning DBT skills, the straightforward explanations and useful worksheets contained within make DBT skills learning and practice accessible and practical for both skills groups and individual users.

DBT Skills-Building Card Deck for Clients and Therapists

Jump-start, rev up, and renew your DBT skills!

Award-winning author of the popular DBT Deck for Clients and Therapists, Lane Pederson presents another 101 ideas, tips, and exercises to navigate the ups and downs of real-world life.

This deck can be used on its own or as an addition to the original deck that set the standard for defining and using DBT skills.

Learn DBT philosophies to guide life
Expand dialectic thinking and action
Enhance your ability to be mindfully present
Increase emotion regulation and distress tolerance
Implement powerful strategies to change behaviors