Steven Girardeau – Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Certificate Course

Steven Girardeau – Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Certificate Course

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an empirically validated approach for working with mental health, chemical dependency, and complex co-morbidity. Designed to empower clients to establish mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness, DBT assists clinicians in treating clients with emotional problems, suicidal, self-harm, and self-sabotaging urges and behaviors, and challenging interpersonal styles.

In this recording, you’ll receive a detailed understanding and foundation of the skills of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) as applied to clients with mental health and chemical dependency issues. Going beyond symptom management, these skills are designed to improve functioning to build satisfying lives.

This course explores DBT’s theoretical basis, specific DBT interventions, and how to teach skills in individual and group settings. Familiarity with these skills and techniques along with experiential exercises will enhance your clinical skills and professional development.

Guided by the latest research and policy in evidence-based practices, this course teaches the clinical process and content of DBT from theory to practice. Going beyond prescriptive applications, this course shows you how to use essentials such as validation, dialectical strategies, communication styles, and the best ways of changing behaviors in order to effectively balance acceptance and change with your clients. Complete with education on user-friendly diary cards and chain analysis protocols, you will leave this recording with increased DBT competency as well as many new tools including client worksheets to bring to your clinical practice.

Steve Girardeau, Psy.D., is not affiliated or associated with Marsha M. Linehan, PhD, ABPP, or her organizations.

1. Explain the underlying theory of Dialectics and Dialectic Behavior Therapy. .
2. Integrate DBT skills for individual and group therapy treatment into practice.
3. Teach DBT skills in the areas of Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotional Regulation and Interpersonal Effectiveness to clients.
4. Utilize specific DBT skills for the treatment of a range of mental health symptoms, chemical dependency and complex co-morbidities.
5. Describe DBT tools and resources used to effectively change behavior.
6. Articulate a variety of strategies for teaching DBT skills to clients.
7. Demonstrate the use of crisis survival strategies to enhance distress tolerance
8. Discriminate the DBT model from cognitive-behavioral, client-centered, and other treatment modalities.
9. Practice a multi-layered approach to validation of clients’ thoughts and feelings.
10. Apply DBT diary cards and chain (change) analysis techniques to address specific clinical issues in practice.
11. Summarize how to effectively operate consultative groups and treatment teams
12. Assess and manage self-injurious and suicidal behaviors with clear protocols and safety plans.
13. Discuss the limitations and risks of DBT and areas of ongoing or future research regarding DBT effectiveness.

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