Description
Put at its simplest, DBT hinges on teaching important life and psychological skills to those who need them, and then supporting them in applying those skills in real life. Such an approach often has clear relevance for adolescents, because they are going through a period of change, where it is important to acquire new skills.
DBT-A covers the delivery of effective DBT at its most relevant for adolescents, including: confusion about self, impulsivity, lack of emotional control, interpersonal problems, family problems and dilemmas, high risk behaviors, including suicidal behavior and non-suicidal self-injury.
The APT has mastered the delivery of DBT training 'online anytime'; providing top class training you can access right now or any time that suits you. No longer do you have to wait for 'the start date' of the course.
"I learned so much in the course. Though I had some previous knowledge of DBT, it truly clarified so much of the skills and theory of DBT"
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) training from the Association for Psychological Therapies (APT), includes APT accreditation, certification, and resources. And the APT has perfected the art of delivering it in a way that makes it appear simple and easy to apply.
"Very helpful, insightful, organized and easy to follow. Will definitely be using this knowledge and these resources with my clients. Highly recommend!"
With a wealth of clinical experience, the course has been written by Dr William Davies and presented by Dr Liz Andrew, who presents the course with relevant stories and examples of using DBT and an engaging lightness which perfectly complements the power of the subject.
"I enjoyed the presenter and overall format of the class. It was easy to follow and gave good examples of practising the components of DBT."
This course gives you a thorough introduction to DBT-A, it is APT-accredited, and gives you access to important resources for you to use post-course. Whether you simply want to broaden your knowledge or take your first step to establishing a full DBT service this course is for you. The course can be studied by teams or individuals and can also be completed as part of APT's Extended Training in DBT course and The APT Diploma for working in Child & Adolescent Mental Health.
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Objectives
The DBT-A course covers a great deal:
OVERARCHING THEORY AND KNOWLEDGE.
The 4 'modes' (key components) of DBT.
- Skills development groups, where patients learn important life skills.
- 1:1 sessions where patients meet with their individual therapist to problem solve, maintain motivation, and more.
- Telephone support, where therapist and patient have telephone communication to help them apply the new skills they learn even in crisis situations.
- Consultation Meetings. Where all the professionals involved in providing DBT get together to discuss any current issues, to support each other and ensure quality control.
- What to do if you are providing DBT single handed and cannot provide all the components as listed above.
Linehan's Biosocial model.
- What it is.
- Why it is important.
- How we operationalize it in therapy.
Higher order skills of DBT.
- How to order competing priorities: deciding which of several problems to tackle first.
- Life-threatening behaviors, therapy-threatening behaviors, and behaviors that interfere with the quality of life.
- The patient-therapist agreement - our role in it.
- Assumptions we can make about the patient - and those we can't.
THERAPIST KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS MAINLY USED IN 1:1 SESSIONS:
Validation.
- Definition of validation, and why it is important.
- The importance of validation in discussing adolescents' confusion about their own identity.
- The implication of invalidating environments for a child, and later for the adult.
- Different ways of validating.
Metaphors.
- How metaphors work and why we should use them.
- 6 Examples of metaphors.
- 4 Metaphors you can use repeatedly, for common problem situations.
- General principles of metaphors, including visual metaphors.
Relentless problem solving.
- Problem solving attitude and problem solving strategy, the usefulness of both.
- The five stage problem solving strategy.
- Forms for clients (and you) to use with problem solving.
- Problem solving exercise.
Contingency management.
- Differential reinforcement in a clinical setting.
- The nature of contingency management and how it interacts with the conscious or unconscious motivations of the client.
- Behavioral analysis, especially as a response to severe behavior such as parasuicidal behavior.
- Chain analysis and solution analysis.
AN EXTENDED OVERVIEW OF THE SKILLS TAUGHT TO CLIENTS IN GROUPS
Emotion-regulation.
- The skills necessary to effectively regulate your emotions.
- Biological elements such as: sleep, exercise, illnesses, circadian rhythm.
- Specific multi-point strategies and the acronyms to remember them.
Interpersonal effectiveness.
- Frequent interpersonal issues, and strategies to respond to them.
- Family problems and dilemmas.
- Appropriate assertiveness and strategies for expressing it.
Core Mindfulness skills.
- A definition and description of mindfulness and the best purposes it can fulfil, especially during adolescence.
- Mindfulness and its role in balancing 'the emotional mind' with 'the reasonable mind' to achieve 'the wise mind'.
- The skills of mindfulness.
Distress tolerance.
- 'Distraction behaviors' that may be used to counteract and neutralize distress.
- 'Beyond distraction': steering the thought processes.
- 'Radical' distress tolerance: doing nothing. How to do nothing: the fact of this turning out to be an effective approach for many adolescents, and the theory behind it.
Walking the Middle Path
- What this means, why it is important.
- Why it has a special place in DBT-A (as opposed to DBT with adults).
- An overview of some of the exercises involved.
What the DBT-A course will do for you:
- You will have the feeling of knowing what DBT and DBT-A are all about, understanding it, and how it applies to helping adolescents.
- Given that this is a post-qualification course so you already have the standard clinical skills, you will know enough about DBT-A from this course to start applying it in your practice.
- You will be able to work to develop your own skill in DBT-A and towards establishing a full DBT service if you wish, working with suitable colleagues.
- You will be able to create validating environments - environments that make people feel good.
- You will be able to quickly have people 'see things differently'.
- You will be able to (help people to) solve problems.
- You will be able to respond to people who have just done severe behaviors in a way which is caring yet does not reinforce the severe behavior.
- You will be able to (help adolescents to) bring some sense of order and predictability to their emotions.
- You will have the chance to begin practising mindfulness.
- You will be able to (help others to) tolerate distress much better. Not to allow distress to get into a 'vicious spiral'.
- You will be able to order competing priorities amongst several 'top priorities'.
Bookings:
Click ‘add to cart’ to purchase by card or PayPal. (If you are ordering for somebody else - or a group - create an account and select ‘Bulk Purchase’ once you have proceeded to cart.)
If you would like to be invoiced please click here (once the invoice has been paid or upon receipt of an official Purchase Order, we can then grant access to the course).
Certificate
By completing/passing this course, you will attain the certificate APT Accreditation, Level 2 (18 hours CPD)
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