Master Class: Core Skills in DBT©

Course Description:

Part One focuses on teaching the skills. Annie McCall will provide helpful tips for using the two skills training manuals (DBT Skills Training Manual, 2nd Edition and DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets, 2nd Edition).  She will provide demonstrations, examples and practices for the skills as well as potential pitfalls in teaching the skills.  This first 12 hours is practical material for anyone who will be teaching, coaching or utilizing skills with clients (individual psychotherapists, skills trainers, case managers, coaches, prescribers). 

The first 2 hours of the Part Two will teach how to set up a group, getting clients oriented to skills training group, explaining the group guidelines/rules and how to assign homework.  Participants will be assigned homework between the first and second classes. The second 2 hours will demonstrate how to conduct homework review in skills training and how to treat behaviors that interfere with group as well as behaviors that threaten to destroy the group. 

Core Skills in DBT© will provide 16 hours that may be used toward the 40 hours of training required for DBT certification (www.dbt-lbc.org).  Clinicians who have attended or plan to attend our 28.75 hour 5 Day Jump Start in Dialectical Behavior Therapy© can use these 16 hours toward certification as well as a means to learn Skills Training that is not covered in detail in the Jump Start. 

Who Should Attend:

Both parts of this course would be beneficial for new skills trainers who will be leading or co-leading group as well as skills trainers who want to be oriented to the 2015 skills manuals. In addition, this course will be helpful for administrators/supervisors who are supporting DBT programs.  

Topics for the Course Include:

Part One: How to Teach Core Skills in DBT

Week 1: Intro to Core Mindfulness, States of Mind

Week 2: Core Mindfulness What and How Skills

Week 3: Intro to Two Types of Distress Tolerance (Crisis v. Reality Acceptance), Changing the Body

Week 4: Distress Tolerance - Changing Cognitions, Reorienting Attention

Week 5: Reality Acceptance

Week 6: Intro to Interpersonal Effectiveness, DEAR MAN

Week 7: GIVE FAST (includes Validation)

 Week 8: Walking the Middle Path:  Behavior Change, Dialectics

Week 9: Addictions Skills

Week 10: Model of Emotions/Check the Facts

Week 11: Problem Solving/ Opposite Action

Week 12: Mindfulness to Current Emotion/ Cope Ahead

Part Two: How to Structure and Run Skills Training Groups

Week 1: Overview of the Manual

Choosing a Schedule

                        Setting up Group (logistics)

                        Roles of Leaders/co-leaders

                        Group Guidelines

                        Assigning Homework

Week 2: Reviewing Homework, Including Practice During the Class

                        Dealing with Therapy Interfering Behaviors

                        Intervening with Therapy Destroying Behaviors

Course Objectives:

Following Part One: How to Teach Core Skills in DBT, participants will be able to:

• Describe the importance of mindfulness in regulating emotions

• Teach the Core Mindfulness What and How Skills

• Explain the difference between Crisis Survival Skills and Reality Acceptance Skills

• Describe the IMPROVE and ACCEPTS skills

• Teach reality acceptance skills

• List the skills in DEAR MAN GIVE and FAST

• List the levels of validation

• Describe the Middle Path Skills

• Explain the addictions skills in DBT

• Teach the model of emotion

• Describe the skills for changing emotional responses

• Create practices for DBT skills

• Provide examples of the DBT Skills

 Following Part Two: How to Structure and Run Skills Training Groups, participants will be able to:

• Determine the appropriate group schedule for their population(s)

• Create the environment for a skills group

• Explain the group guidelines

• Assign helpful homework assignments

• Review homework with clients

• Use the skills training targets to determine how to treat therapy interfering behavior

• Stop therapy destroying behaviors when they occur in group

Course Requirements:

Linehan, M.M. (2015).  DBT Skills Training Manual, 2nd Edition. New York: Guilford Press.

Linehan, M.M. (2015).  DBT skills training handouts and worksheets, 2nd Edition. New York: Guilford Press. 

Each participant is required to have reviewed both manuals and have them available for reference throughout the 16 hours of Core Skills in DBT©. Because of copyright rules, participants will not be given handouts from the manuals.  Both manuals are available through Guilford Press or Amazon. 

Registration & Tuition: 

• Individuals: $150 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.