Averting the Crisis: Coaching in DBT©

Course Description:

Everyone in a client’s life has potential to be a coach for new behavior.  When in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), clients attend skills training group that teaches them new behaviors designed to help them regulate their emotions, their relationships and tolerate crises and stress.  When emotions go up, often those new skills are hard for clients to access.  Coaches help to remind DBT participants of the new behaviors in the heat of the moment.  Whether you are a parent, loved one, line staff in a residential facility, nurse in an inpatient unit, case manager, correctional or parole officer, or a psychiatrist, your role in helping transfer what is learned in a DBT skills group into day to day life is critical.  Effective coaching helps everyone because it decreases crises and stress on the client and his or her environment. 

This course is designed to help line staff, family members, educators, anyone in DBT clients’ lives, to quickly and effectively coach them in the moment. 

 The course will include:

1. specific teaching on DBT skills that can be used efficiently;

2. principles that increase the chance that your DBT client will respond to the coaching; and

3. a clear, concise method of coaching new behavior. 

Online access allows participants to be flexible in when they attend the class.  Each lesson will have materials and practices between classes. 

Topics for the Course Include:

Week 1 - Skills: Why Skills? Core Mindfulness

Week 2 - Skills: Distress Tolerance

Week 3 - Skills: Emotion Regulation

Week 4 - Skills: Interpersonal Effectiveness

Week 5 - Middle Path: Behavioral Principles

Week 6 - Middle Path: Behavioral Principles, cont.

Week 7 - Middle Path: Validation

Week 8 - Middle Path: Dialectics

Week 9 - Coaching: How to Coach Using FAVOR

Week 10 - Coaching: How to Coach Using FAVOR, cont.

Week 11 - Coaching: Practice / When to Coach What

Week 12 - Coaching: What to do When it Falls Apart

Course Objectives:

Following this course, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the behavioral skills that would be helpful to DBT clients in the moment. 

2. Explain at least one skill each from the Core Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation and Interpersonal Effectiveness modules.

3. Use positive and negative consequences to respond and change others’ behaviors.

4. Decrease emotions in yourself and others with validation.

5. Avoid conflict with dialectics.

6. Effectively coach your DBT client (and others).

Registration & Tuition: 

• Individuals: $50 per person (USD)

• Online we accept credit cards and PayPal. If you need to pay by check, please complete our INVOICE REQUEST.

**IMPORTANT**

• After your payment is received, we will send you an email with instructions on how to access the course. Depending on the day and time of your order, this can take up to 24 hours. Orders received Friday evening through Monday morning will be processed on Monday.