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This workshop covers the content from each of the four skills training modules in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy [DBT]—Core Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and Distress Tolerance.
Core Mindfulness and Distress Tolerance are acceptance-based modules; they teach clients how to live with reality "as it is". Emotion Regulation and Interpersonal Effectiveness are change-oriented modules, teaching clients how to alter themselves or their environments.
During the workshop, participants also learn about a wide variety of topics related to skills groups. These include how to start a group so that it has a friendly and welcoming atmosphere, identifying common problems in skills groups and solving them early, making skills lectures come alive, giving meaningful homework assignments, and reviewing homework assignments in a way that promotes active engagement and problem solving.
Participants will be asked to practice skills at the workshop and will be given very brief (5-10 minute) homework assignments to complete at lunch, at breaks, or during the evening. The instructors will use lecture, videotapes, role-play, homework review, and open question and answer periods to provide participants with a practical and highly experiential learning environment. They also will cover how DBT skills groups can be developed in a wide variety of settings and with different client populations.
Topics:
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Dialectical Behavioural Therapy
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Treating clients with suicidal behaviour
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Substance abuse
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Anger
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Eating disorders
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Interpersonal difficulties
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Personality disorders and impulsivity
Objectives - learn:
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Four skills training modules of DBT: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness
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Apply relevant DBT strategies within psycho-educational skills training
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Organize and structure skills training classes for clients
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Treat therapy-interfering behaviours of clients and therapists
Entry requirements
This course is open to health professionals who have an understanding of DBT and wish to further their knowledge through formalised study in the area. Completion of this course or one of the Centre for evidence based Mental Health's other DBT programs is a pre-requisite for the Intensive DBT Course.
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