DBT Made Simple

by Sheri Van Dijk, MSW

12 CE credits available
Please read the complete course information below prior to registering.
Target Audience:

This course is designed for mental health professionals with no to little prior knowledge of DBT. Sheri Van Dijk breaks down DBT concepts and skills in an accessible way, making it suitable for beginners. However, even those with some DBT experience will benefit from learning how to integrate these skills flexibly into their existing practice.

Schedule: (12 hours total)

This is a non-live distance training that is fully online and available on-demand.

Module 1 – The Foundations of DBT (108 minutes)

  • The origins of DBT, and the difference between ACT, CBT, and DBT
  • The DBT Model of Treatment
  • The Biosocial Theory of emotion dysregulation
  • Using Behavior Tracking to develop an agenda and create structure for dysregulated clients
  • The basics of Dialectics and the ways this plays out in session

Module 2 – Dialectical Strategies (117 minutes)

  • Using validation to help de-escalate clients during session
  • How to use irreverence and other dialectical strategies to help clients get unstuck
  • How to use a Behavioral Analysis to help clients analyze problematic behaviors
  • Case study and exercise

Module 3 – DBT Mindfulness Skills (142 minutes)

  • How mindfulness is helpful for clients with emotion dysregulation
  • The DBT Core Mindfulness skills: States of Mind, the “What” Skills & “How” Skills
  • How the Core Mindfulness skills assist in emotion regulation
  • How to teach Core Mindfulness skills to clients

Module 4 – Distress Tolerance (126 minutes)

  • Crisis Survival Skills, including reality acceptance
  • F-TIPP Skills and how they help clients to quickly re-regulate emotions
  • Urge management with Distracting, Self-Soothing, and Improve the Moment skills
  • The concept of Radical Acceptance and steps to implement it
  • How to strengthen commitment to goals by using a DBT Pros and Cons

Module 5 – Emotion Regulation (139 minutes)

  • The role of mindfulness in emotion regulation
  • The importance of accurately naming and validating emotions
  • How to reduce vulnerability to emotions and manage extreme emotions
  • The concept of Opposite Action and how to apply it
  • How to use the skill of Cope Ahead

Module 6 – Interpersonal Effectiveness (88 minutes)

  • How to teach assertiveness skills to clients
  • Dialectical thinking and a balanced approach to relationships
  • The role of mindfulness and behavior theory in relationships
  • How to help clients make choices about relationships from their internal wisdom
Overall Objectives:

At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:

1. Explain the origins of DBT, and the difference between DBT, CBT, and ACT.
2. Describe the basics of Dialectics and some of the ways this plays out in session, including helping therapists balance acceptance and change.
3. Discuss how to teach your clients the four sets of DBT skills to help them get through crisis situations without making the situation worse; to manage their emotions more effectively; and to develop and maintain healthier relationships.
4. Discuss how to apply DBT skills to a range of psychiatric illnesses and other problems of daily living (such as low self-esteem, difficulties managing anger).
5. Describe the DBT Core Mindfulness skills: States of Mind, the “What” Skills & “How” Skills.
6. Describe willfulness and the strategies to use with your clients to help them get to a more willing place.
7. Describe dialectical strategies to assist clients who are “stuck” in therapy, resulting in inertia or unhealthy mechanisms of escape and avoidance, and how these strategies can lead to transformational healing.
8. Use tools such as the Tracking Sheet and the Behavioral Analysis to increase structure in sessions and to help clients move toward change.
9. Describe the role of mindfulness in emotion regulation.
10. Describe how to apply Behavior Theory techniques to help clients understand what might be maintaining their problem behaviors and to get unstuck from these ingrained patterns.
11. Define dialectical thinking and a balanced approach to relationships.

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CE Course Launch Date: 9/20/2024

Expiration Date/Next scheduled review date: 9/19/2027

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How to Obtain Your CE Certificate:

Once you begin the course, you will be provided with a unique link and instructions on how to access your post-test, evaluation, and course certificate through our online portal.

To receive CE credit, you must attend the course in full, pass the post-test with a score of 80% or higher, and complete the course evaluation. No partial credit will be awarded. You will be able to take your post-test as you progress through the course. You may save your work and return any time to continue working on the test before submitting it at the end of the course.

If you do not pass the test on your first attempt, you will have one chance to retake the test to earn a CE certificate.

Technical Requirements:

In order to complete this course, attendees will need:

  • A computer with a monitor, keyboard, and a mouse or a mobile device/tablet
  • Speakers/headphones: either built‐in to your computer/device or external (plugged into your computer)
  • An internet connection, either wired or wireless. A minimum connection speed of 3 megabits is required to stream clear, standard definition video.
  • The course is supported on most up-to-date internet browsers (Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Brave, etc.)
  • A PDF viewer such as Adobe Acrobat Reader
  • An email address
  • [Optional] A printer or access to a printer (to print any of the PDFs, if desired)
References:

1) Kells, M., Joyce, M., Flynn, D., Spillane, A., & Hayes, A. (2020). Dialectical behaviour therapy skills reconsidered: applying skills training to emotionally dysregulated individuals who do not engage in suicidal and self-harming behaviours. Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation, 7(3).

2) Carson-Wong, A., Hughes, C. D., & Rizvi, S. L. (2018). The effect of therapist use of validation strategies on change in client emotion in individual DBT treatment sessions.Personality disorders: theory, research, and treatment, 9(2), 165-171.

3)Linehan, M. M., Korslund, K. E., Harned, M. S., Gallop, R. J., Lungu, A., Neacsiu, A. D., McDavid, J., Comtois, K. A., & Murray-Gregory, A. M. (2015). Dialectical behavior therapy for high suicide risk in individuals with borderline personality disorder: a randomized clinical trial and component analysis. JAMA psychiatry, 72(5), 475–482.