Intro to Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Dates: 7/30/24 & 8/6/24           Time: 9-10:30am

Contact hrs: 5           CEU’s: 5       Enrollment Limit: 20

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based treatment originally designed for individuals with suicidal or self-harm behaviors. It has come to be an evidence-based treatment for borderline personality (BPD). However, many other clients and disorders have been shown to benefit from DBT, such as depression, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, or alcohol and drug use disorders. It can be applied as a behavioral therapy to any target behavior that the client would want to change. DBT is built on balancing acceptance and change. Its use of dialectics like this one, the teaching of mindfulness as a core skill, and its group curriculum of mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal
effectiveness skills that have distinguished DBT as a skills-based therapy.
Method: Lecture, discussion, and role-play.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the theory and concepts of dialectics.
• Be familiar with the purpose and structure of a DBT Consultation Team.
• Understand how DBT assesses, monitors, and provides treatment through a behavioral treatment lens.
• Be familiar with the structure of a DBT skills group session.
• Understand the DBT skills in their modules of Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness (and Walking the Middle Path for adolescents).
• Understand and be able to use a diary card with your client.
• Become familiar with behavioral chain analysis and solution analysis.

Cost: $250
Instructor: Christopher Libby, PhD
Location: LIVE – IN PERSON at 141 North Central Avenue, Hartsdale

Westchester Jewish Community Services is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0101, and by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW0067.

Please note: To receive CE credits, one must attend the entirety of the class. Partial credit will not be awarded to those who attend only a portion of the class. Therefore, late arrival or an early departure of greater than 10 minutes constitutes not attending a class in its entirety. To document attendance, participants must sign in and out of the class and complete an evaluation at the end of each class.

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