Improving Skills in Conducting Chain Analysis in DBT:: There’s No Such Thing as Too Much Detail© - ONLINE [December 2025]

Course Information:

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) was created to treat people with multiple, severe problems in multiple areas of functioning.  Prior to DBT, evidence-based treatments focused primarily on a single problem or diagnosis.  DBT clients often present in treatment and in individual psychotherapy sessions with multiple problems behaviors that occurred during the week as well as behaviors occurring in session.  Marsha Linehan, the developer of DBT, often said that 80% of treatment errors in DBT began with assessment errors.  When a therapist moves into problem solving prior to having a clear picture of the problem, the client experiences interventions as invalidating and collaboration often ceases. 

This training focuses on chain analysis.  Each section of the chain will be reviewed.  Assessment questions for gathering data for each position of the chain will be discussed and practiced.  After chains are completed, therapists work with clients to generate a hypothesis of the function of the problem behavior as well as controlling variables that maintain the problem behavior.  In this training, there will be discussion and practices on generating effective hypotheses after conducting chains.  The training will focus on problem solving issues that occur during chain, e.g. the client stops collaborating and/or dissociates and conclude with how to watch others’ chains and give effective feedback to team members and supervisees/trainees.

Improving Skills in Conducting Chain Analysis in DBT:: There’s No Such Thing as Too Much Detail© is designed for DBT individual psychotherapists and is highly interactive with more practice and feedback than teaching.  It will assume a strong baseline knowledge of the structure and components of treatment.  The trainer will not take time to orient to basic content of DBT.

Course Prerequisites:

This course is designed for clinicians who have been trained and are actively practicing DBT.  This course will not teach the basics of DBT. 

Continuing Education:

This course is 12 hours. 100% participation is required to receive any credit. No partial credit will be given for any reason.  In order to document participation in this live online course, each participant will be provided their own invitation to attend each session.  At the conclusion of the course, each participant will be required to complete an Attestation that they attended 100% of each training session. 

Addiction Professionals

National Association of Addiction Professionals (NAADAC) approved education provider, #289850.

Social Workers

Application in process.

Counselors

Application in process.

Psychologists

Treatment Implementation Collaborative, LLC (TIC) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. TIC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

APA credit will be provided upon completion of the course. 100% participation is required in order to receive any credit. No partial credit will be given. 12 APA hours.

Tuition and Registration:

Regular Rate: $300 (USD) per person.

Early Rate: $3275 (USD) per person. To qualify for the early payment rate, tuition must be received in full by October 6, 2025

Group Rate: $275 (USD) per person. To qualify for the group payment rate, 2+ individuals must register and pay in a single transaction. Use code “GroupChain25” at checkout after March 6, 2025

Registration:

Register online at www.ticllc.org and click on Trainings Registration. Pay by credit card, PayPal or check. Checks payable to: Treatment Implementation Collaborative and mailed to: 6327 46th Avenue SW, Seattle, WA 98136. Registration is not guaranteed until full payment is received. Once payment is received, participants will receive access to the bonus on demand courses.

Refunds & Substitutions:

If you need to substitute a colleague to take your place or cancel a registration, please contact TIC at cbest@ticllc.org no later than June 14, 2024. We will refund your registration fees, minus $50 (USD) – we understand that life happens when you are making other plans and we want to be accommodating. No substitutions or refunds after November 28, 2025.

For a complete description of this training, please view the Printable Course Brochure