Research on DBT shows that skills serve a critical function in the treatment. One of the most important skills related to happiness is the ability to competently navigate interpersonal relationships. While there are many factors that can prevent us from being more effective in our relationships, there are also specific strategies that can help us get what we want from others while maintaining relationships and our self-respect.

This course is designed for mental health professionals with an interest in DBT skills. In addition to helping providers refine their understanding of the content of DBT interpersonal effectiveness skills, it will provide guidance about teaching those skills to clients. An additional benefit of learning skills is enhancement of professional practice by teaching strategies that providers can use to improve one’s own interpersonal effectiveness skills.

The workshop will use lecture, extensive clinical examples, and demonstration to achieve its objectives. We recommend participants be familiar with the DBT Skills Training Manual (Second Edition), and bring a copy of the manual and the DBT Skills Training Manual Handouts and Worksheets (Second Edition) with them to the workshop.

Research on DBT shows that skills serve a critical function in the treatment. Difficulties regulating emotions are often at the heart of the problematic behaviors we engage in as humans. Often our most maladaptive behaviors arise out of attempts to regulate our emotions or as a result of being emotionally dysregulated. These skills teach us how to regulate difficult emotions, how to change emotions by problem-solving or acting opposite, and take steps to decrease our vulnerabilities for falling into "emotion mind".

This course is designed for mental health professionals with an interest in DBT skills. In addition to helping providers refine their understanding of the content of DBT emotion regulation skills, it will provide guidance about teaching those skills to clients. An additional benefit of learning skills is enhancement of professional practice by teaching strategies that providers can use to improve one’s own emotion regulation skills.

The workshop will use lecture, extensive clinical examples, and demonstration to achieve its objectives. We recommend participants be familiar with the DBT Skills Training Manual (Second Edition), and bring a copy of the manual and the DBT Skills Training Manual Handouts and Worksheets (Second Edition) with them to the workshop.

Research on DBT shows that skills serve a critical function in the treatment. It is not always possible to change a difficult situation. These circumstances call for the ability to tolerate the distress. Participants are taught strategies for how to “not make a bad situation worse” when changing the situation is not currently an option. These strategies are collectively known as Distress Tolerance skills.In order to tolerate distress, it is necessary to experience reality as it is using the skills of radical acceptance, turning the mind, willingness, half-smile and willing hands. It is also important to have a set of crisis survival strategies including distract, Self-Soothe, Improve the Moment, Pros and Cons, STOP, and TIP.

This course is designed for mental health professionals with an interest in DBT skills. In addition to helping providers refine their understanding of the content of DBT distress tolerance skills, it will provide guidance about teaching those skills to clients. An additional benefit of learning skills is enhancement of one’s own tolerance for distress.

The workshop will use lecture, extensive clinical examples, and demonstration to achieve its objectives. We recommend participants be familiar with the DBT Skills Training Manual (Second Edition), and bring a copy of the manual and the DBT Skills Training Manual Handouts and Worksheets (Second Edition) with them to the workshop.

Research on DBT shows that skills serve a critical function in the treatment. Studies on problems in human behavior are increasingly pointing toward the importance of mindfulness as a core component of effective problem-solving. The goals of mindfulness are to reduce suffering, increase happiness, increase control of one’s mind, and to experience reality as it is. The components of mindfulness are a necessary foundation on which other skills are built, and the principles are critical to cognitive behavior therapies in general. Participants are taught what mindfulness is, and how it is taught and practiced as part of DBT skills training.

This course is designed for mental health professionals with an interest in DBT skills. In addition to helping providers refine their understanding of the content of DBT mindfulness skills, it will provide guidance about teaching those skills to clients. An additional benefit of learning skills is enhancement of one’s own mindfulness practice.

The workshop will use lecture, extensive clinical examples, and demonstration to achieve its objectives. We recommend participants be familiar with the DBT Skills Training Manual (Second Edition), and bring a copy of the manual and the DBT Skills Training Manual Handouts and Worksheets (Second Edition) with them to the workshop.

This 4-day workshop is designed to provide intensive training in how to integrate PTSD treatment into standard DBT. Participants will learn the DBT Prolonged Exposure (DBT PE) protocol for treating PTSD, one of the newest developments in DBT research and practice.This protocol can be added to standard DBT to allow for integrated treatment of PTSD, suicidal and self-injurious behavior, and other co-occurring problems.Participants will learn how to use DBT strategies to prepare high-risk and multi-problem clients for the DBT PE protocol as well as how to determine when clients are ready to begin formal PTSD treatment.

The structure and procedures of the DBT PE protocol will be taught in a session-by-session format with extensive opportunities to watch video examples and practice delivering each of the primary treatment components.Particular attention will be paid to discussing strategies for overcoming common problems that arise during PTSD treatment with high-risk and multi-problem clients as well as how to tailor the treatment to address the complex characteristics of this client population.

This advanced workshop is intended for mental health professionals who have attended a DBT Intensive or Foundational training (or equivalent), are active members of DBT consultation teams, or currently provide DBT individual therapy.

This workshop introduces health-care professionals to Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and helps with decisions about whether DBT is the right fit. Clinicians working with patients who have multiple problems are often stymied by the complex clinical presentations and challenges that arise during treatment. These introductory two days will describe the theoretical and empirical foundations for DBT. It covers the basic principles of balancing change and acceptance strategies in standard DBT and discusses ways of applying these strategies and principles to your clients. Participants can expect to learn useful DBT skills; however, this workshop is not sufficient for acquiring the competence necessary to conduct comprehensive DBT. Suggestions for additional training and self-study will be provided. Methods of instruction include lecture and demonstrations of treatment.

This workshop is appropriate for mental health providers who are exploring whether learning DBT to a standard of clinical proficiency would benefit their own clinical skills and their clients suffering from complex disorders. It can also be useful for health care providers, outside of mental health, who are interested in determining whether DBT is appropriate for their patients.

Teaching methods include lecture and demonstration to illustrate the treatment strategies used in DBT.

This workshop is an introduction to Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) intended for mental health professionals who wish to acquaint themselves with the treatment. The dialectical nature of DBT is explained via the balance between change-based technology (behavior therapy) with acceptance-based principles (validation). It highlights the structure of DBT and defines the modes and functions of comprehensive DBT.

This workshop is appropriate for mental health professionals interested in learning about DBT at an introductory level. Methods of instruction include lecture, treatment demonstrations, and practice exercises to illustrate the principles and strategies of DBT.

Research on DBT shows that skills serve a critical function in the treatment. Difficulties regulating emotions are often at the heart of the problematic behaviors we engage in as humans. These difficulties are often made worse by an inability to navigate our interpersonal relationships. These three days focus on the change-oriented skills designed to teach us and those with whom we work how to regulate difficult emotions, and to take steps to decrease our vulnerabilities for falling into “emotion mind’. Strategies for more effectively getting what we want from others while maintaining relationships and our self-respect are also taught. This workshop will cover the content of the DBT emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness skills.

This course is designed for mental health professionals with an interest in DBT skills. In addition to helping providers refine their understanding of the content of DBT emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness skills, it will provide guidance about teaching those skills to clients. An additional benefit of learning skills is enhancement of professional practice by teaching strategies that providers can use to improve one’s own emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness skills.

The workshop will use lecture, extensive clinical examples, and demonstration to achieve its objectives. We recommend participants be familiar with the DBT Skills Training Manual (Second Edition), and bring a copy of the manual and the DBT Skills Training Manual Handouts and Worksheets (Second Edition) with them to the workshop.

Research on DBT shows that skills serve a critical function in the treatment. These three days address the acceptance-based skills of mindfulness and distress tolerance. The ability to “experience reality as it is” is necessary to be able to determine a course of action. If it is determined that changing a difficult situation is not currently possible, this calls for the ability to tolerate the distress caused by that situation. Participants are taught what mindfulness is, and how it is practiced. This is followed by teaching strategies for how to “not make a bad situation worse” when changing the situation is not currently an option.

This course is designed for mental health professionals with an interest in DBT skills. In addition to helping providers refine their understanding of the content of DBT mindfulness and distress tolerance skills, it will provide guidance about teaching those skills to clients. An additional benefit of learning skills is enhancement of one’s own mindfulness practice and tolerance of distress.

The workshop will use lecture, extensive clinical examples, and demonstration to achieve its objectives. We recommend participants be familiar with the DBT Skills Training Manual (Second Edition), and bring a copy of the manual and the DBT Skills Training Manual Handouts and Worksheets (Second Edition) with them to the workshop.

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Intensive Training™ is a comprehensive ten-day course designed for those who have begun learning DBT methods from self-guided study of the treatment manuals and introductory workshops. This training is intended for teams that are invested in learning DBT to a high standard in order to better implement the treatment in their settings. It includes 4 hours of content specific to risk assessment, management, and treatment of suicidal behaviors.

As DBT is a treatment that requires an ongoing consultation team, the Intensive Training is designed for treatment teams, not individual practitioners intending to practice alone.

A DBT team (minimum of 3*, maximum of 8) is a group of mental health professionals who meets at least weekly to assist each other in applying DBT in their practice setting. With the intent to provide the highest quality training experience, it is our goal to have a maximum of eight teams for each Dialectical Behavior Therapy Intensive Training™. Teams should discuss and clarify their level of commitment prior to completing their application as course enrollment is limited, and there is a competitive demand for Intensive Training.

Training is conducted in two five-day sessions of instruction divided by six to nine months of home study. In Part 1, lectures, videotapes, and small group exercises are used to teach DBT theory and strategies in-depth. Between the first and second sessions, participants consolidate and apply what they have learned with the help of practice assignments. Between sessions, teams design and begin to implement their own DBT programs or to integrate DBT into an ongoing treatment setting. In Part 2, each team presents their work and receives expert consultation on specific cases and on their program, including protocols for specific treatment problems and adaptations of DBT.

The DBT Intensive Training involves rigorous preparation, training, and homework. Part 1 and Part 2 are both five full days of training. The course is designed to model basic elements of the treatment in an experiential way and to foster team development. Just as DBT requires clients to make a full commitment to treatment and to attend all sessions, DBT training requires Intensive participants to attend the entire training, do their best to learn the material, and participate in a willing, committed manner.