Full Course Description
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training for Children and Adolescents: Rescuing the Dysregulated Child
Program Information
Outline
Developmental Theory and Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Adapt DBT to Key Childhood and Adolescent Disorders
Skills Training with Experiential Activities
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Mindfulness (reducing vulnerability to self-medicating behaviors common in ADHD & Depression)
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Emotion Regulation (attachment disorders, anxiety)
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Distress Tolerance (ODD /AD HD/eating disorders)
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Interpersonal effectiveness
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Validation
Behavior Modification and DBT
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DBT relationship and change strategies
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Validation and change
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Practicing dialectical thinking
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Creating opportunities to practice skills to avoid ineffective coping behaviors
Group Skills Format
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Concurrent skills training
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Multifamily skills training
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Tracking outcomes to ensure effectiveness of approach
Target Audience
Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers and other Mental Health Professionals
Objectives
- Determine the critical “ingredients” for effective DBT therapy.
- Articulate the biosocial model of pervasive emotional dysregulation disorders found in innately sensitive children.
- Utilize behavior modification strategies at the earliest stage of dysregulation.
- Determine the importance of structure in both skills training and home environments and how to teach parents or care providers to implement these strategies.
- Determine how to adapt each skills module to reflect the language of the child.
- Determine the role of parents/therapists/care providers and how to reestablish a safe and loving structure that enables the child to learn and generalize skills.
Copyright :
06/30/2015
Program Information
Objectives
- Determine the critical “ingredients” for effective DBT therapy.
- Articulate the biosocial model of pervasive emotional dysregulation disorders found in innately sensitive children.
- Utilize behavior modification strategies at the earliest stage of dysregulation.
- Determine the importance of structure in both skills training and home environments and how to teach parents or care providers to implement these strategies.
- Determine how to adapt each skills module to reflect the language of the child.
- Determine the role of parents/therapists/care providers and how to reestablish a safe and loving structure that enables the child to learn and generalize skills.
Program Information
Objectives
- Determine the critical “ingredients” for effective DBT therapy.
- Articulate the biosocial model of pervasive emotional dysregulation disorders found in innately sensitive children.
- Utilize behavior modification strategies at the earliest stage of dysregulation.
- Determine the importance of structure in both skills training and home environments and how to teach parents or care providers to implement these strategies.
- Determine how to adapt each skills module to reflect the language of the child.
- Determine the role of parents/therapists/care providers and how to reestablish a safe and loving structure that enables the child to learn and generalize skills.
Program Information
Objectives
- Determine the critical “ingredients” for effective DBT therapy.
- Articulate the biosocial model of pervasive emotional dysregulation disorders found in innately sensitive children.
- Utilize behavior modification strategies at the earliest stage of dysregulation.
- Determine the importance of structure in both skills training and home environments and how to teach parents or care providers to implement these strategies.
- Determine how to adapt each skills module to reflect the language of the child.
- Determine the role of parents/therapists/care providers and how to reestablish a safe and loving structure that enables the child to learn and generalize skills.
Program Information
Objectives
- Determine the critical “ingredients” for effective DBT therapy.
- Articulate the biosocial model of pervasive emotional dysregulation disorders found in innately sensitive children.
- Utilize behavior modification strategies at the earliest stage of dysregulation.
- Determine the importance of structure in both skills training and home environments and how to teach parents or care providers to implement these strategies.
- Determine how to adapt each skills module to reflect the language of the child.
- Determine the role of parents/therapists/care providers and how to reestablish a safe and loving structure that enables the child to learn and generalize skills.