Full Course Description

Session 1 - Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Certification Training

This workshop provides a historical look at the development in our understanding of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), which includes current epidemiological studies and clinical presenting features. The survey leads to a formal description of BPD through the lens of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). The description will be broadened to include a discussion of deficits in emotion regulation, a broad term reflecting the capacity to literally “increase the positive and decrease the negative”. We discuss the origins of this very necessary capacity through the early caregiving environment where key processes necessary for emotional development emerge. The ‘biopsychosocial model’ is described, with particular emphasis on the necessity of emotional validation, and the role modelling of adaptive emotion-management behaviours.

General principles of treatment are described together with the key balancing act present in the therapeutic exchange - the imperative to change with the necessity of acceptance.

Participants will develop an awareness of the organisation and particulars of the core skill modules and will be able to see how a typical skill building session looks and feels like.

Then, the workshop takes a more in-depth focus on the four modules, and the general therapeutic stance taken by a DBT practitioner. Participants will develop their understanding of how “Core Mindfulness” is understood and applied within the DBT framework. As part of this practical approach to learning the skills participants will have an opportunity to see several skills taught and develop an experiential awareness of several key skills.

Participants will return to the key dialectic inherent in DBT – ‘change versus acceptance’ and will deepen their understanding of emotional validation techniques. Distress Tolerance skills will also be introduced, with specific interest on the crisis survival skills - a key skill-set for individuals at risk of self harm and suicidal behaviours. Temperature, Intense exercise, Paced breathing, and Paired muscle relaxation (TIPP) skills will be introduced, which have particular utility for nursing staff and other frontline health practitioners who may work with individuals in emotional crisis

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Develop an understanding of the history and diagnosis of BPD.
  2. Understanding and relevance of terms ‘skills deficit’ and ‘biopsychosocial model’ to BPD.
  3. Determine the ways interpersonal skills training can support clients to improve relationships.
  4. Apply DBT skills to identify unhealthy interaction styles for the client.
  5. Develop an understanding of dialectics.
  6. Understand the organisation of skills modules and their relevance to symptoms seen in BPD.
  7. Develop understanding of Mindfulness and its practical application with client grouping.
  8. Understand the definition of ‘crisis’ and ‘crisis behaviours’.
  9. Develop Self-harm and Suicide assessment skills.
  10. Determine DBT strategies to reduce self-destructive urges.
  11. Explore DBT applications for working with clients with trauma history.
  12. Determine DBT interventions to help foster acceptance of traumatic events whilst addressing doubt, guilt and shame.
  13. Develop knowledge and practical application of validation techniques.
  14. Demonstrate effective teaching of DBT skills with constructive feedback and support.
  15. Support how interpersonal skills practice in therapy settings can help clients be in relationships without losing their sense of self.
  16. Develop a 'Wise Mind' together with the client state for increased awareness and self-regulation.
  17. Develop a skill kit for clients in emotional crisis using distress tolerance skills.
  18. Develop approaches to facilitate client engagement and commitment to DBT homework assignments.

“Develop a practical and systematic way of working that is both deeply respectful and playful."  John Butters

How will you benefit from attending this training?

  • Develop a specific understanding of BPD and how dialectical behaviour therapy speaks to the symptoms.
  • Take skills away that can be practiced immediately.
  • Provide a practical way of developing your skills as a counsellor or other helping professional.

Copyright : 10/10/2022

Session 2 - Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Certification Training

This workshop provides a historical look at the development in our understanding of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), which includes current epidemiological studies and clinical presenting features. The survey leads to a formal description of BPD through the lens of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). The description will be broadened to include a discussion of deficits in emotion regulation, a broad term reflecting the capacity to literally “increase the positive and decrease the negative”. We discuss the origins of this very necessary capacity through the early caregiving environment where key processes necessary for emotional development emerge. The ‘biopsychosocial model’ is described, with particular emphasis on the necessity of emotional validation, and the role modelling of adaptive emotion-management behaviours.

General principles of treatment are described together with the key balancing act present in the therapeutic exchange - the imperative to change with the necessity of acceptance.

Participants will develop an awareness of the organisation and particulars of the core skill modules and will be able to see how a typical skill building session looks and feels like.

Then, the workshop takes a more in-depth focus on the four modules, and the general therapeutic stance taken by a DBT practitioner. Participants will develop their understanding of how “Core Mindfulness” is understood and applied within the DBT framework. As part of this practical approach to learning the skills participants will have an opportunity to see several skills taught and develop an experiential awareness of several key skills.

Participants will return to the key dialectic inherent in DBT – ‘change versus acceptance’ and will deepen their understanding of emotional validation techniques. Distress Tolerance skills will also be introduced, with specific interest on the crisis survival skills - a key skill-set for individuals at risk of self harm and suicidal behaviours. Temperature, Intense exercise, Paced breathing, and Paired muscle relaxation (TIPP) skills will be introduced, which have particular utility for nursing staff and other frontline health practitioners who may work with individuals in emotional crisis

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Develop an understanding of the history and diagnosis of BPD.
  2. Understanding and relevance of terms ‘skills deficit’ and ‘biopsychosocial model’ to BPD.
  3. Determine the ways interpersonal skills training can support clients to improve relationships.
  4. Apply DBT skills to identify unhealthy interaction styles for the client.
  5. Develop an understanding of dialectics.
  6. Understand the organisation of skills modules and their relevance to symptoms seen in BPD.
  7. Develop understanding of Mindfulness and its practical application with client grouping.
  8. Understand the definition of ‘crisis’ and ‘crisis behaviours’.
  9. Develop Self-harm and Suicide assessment skills.
  10. Determine DBT strategies to reduce self-destructive urges.
  11. Explore DBT applications for working with clients with trauma history.
  12. Determine DBT interventions to help foster acceptance of traumatic events whilst addressing doubt, guilt and shame.
  13. Develop knowledge and practical application of validation techniques.
  14. Demonstrate effective teaching of DBT skills with constructive feedback and support.
  15. Support how interpersonal skills practice in therapy settings can help clients be in relationships without losing their sense of self.
  16. Develop a 'Wise Mind' together with the client state for increased awareness and self-regulation.
  17. Develop a skill kit for clients in emotional crisis using distress tolerance skills.
  18. Develop approaches to facilitate client engagement and commitment to DBT homework assignments.

“Develop a practical and systematic way of working that is both deeply respectful and playful."  John Butters

How will you benefit from attending this training?

  • Develop a specific understanding of BPD and how dialectical behaviour therapy speaks to the symptoms.
  • Take skills away that can be practiced immediately.
  • Provide a practical way of developing your skills as a counsellor or other helping professional.

Copyright : 10/10/2022

Session 3 - Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Certification Training

This workshop provides a historical look at the development in our understanding of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), which includes current epidemiological studies and clinical presenting features. The survey leads to a formal description of BPD through the lens of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). The description will be broadened to include a discussion of deficits in emotion regulation, a broad term reflecting the capacity to literally “increase the positive and decrease the negative”. We discuss the origins of this very necessary capacity through the early caregiving environment where key processes necessary for emotional development emerge. The ‘biopsychosocial model’ is described, with particular emphasis on the necessity of emotional validation, and the role modelling of adaptive emotion-management behaviours.

General principles of treatment are described together with the key balancing act present in the therapeutic exchange - the imperative to change with the necessity of acceptance.

Participants will develop an awareness of the organisation and particulars of the core skill modules and will be able to see how a typical skill building session looks and feels like.

Then, the workshop takes a more in-depth focus on the four modules, and the general therapeutic stance taken by a DBT practitioner. Participants will develop their understanding of how “Core Mindfulness” is understood and applied within the DBT framework. As part of this practical approach to learning the skills participants will have an opportunity to see several skills taught and develop an experiential awareness of several key skills.

Participants will return to the key dialectic inherent in DBT – ‘change versus acceptance’ and will deepen their understanding of emotional validation techniques. Distress Tolerance skills will also be introduced, with specific interest on the crisis survival skills - a key skill-set for individuals at risk of self harm and suicidal behaviours. Temperature, Intense exercise, Paced breathing, and Paired muscle relaxation (TIPP) skills will be introduced, which have particular utility for nursing staff and other frontline health practitioners who may work with individuals in emotional crisis

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Develop an understanding of the history and diagnosis of BPD.
  2. Understanding and relevance of terms ‘skills deficit’ and ‘biopsychosocial model’ to BPD.
  3. Determine the ways interpersonal skills training can support clients to improve relationships.
  4. Apply DBT skills to identify unhealthy interaction styles for the client.
  5. Develop an understanding of dialectics.
  6. Understand the organisation of skills modules and their relevance to symptoms seen in BPD.
  7. Develop understanding of Mindfulness and its practical application with client grouping.
  8. Understand the definition of ‘crisis’ and ‘crisis behaviours’.
  9. Develop Self-harm and Suicide assessment skills.
  10. Determine DBT strategies to reduce self-destructive urges.
  11. Explore DBT applications for working with clients with trauma history.
  12. Determine DBT interventions to help foster acceptance of traumatic events whilst addressing doubt, guilt and shame.
  13. Develop knowledge and practical application of validation techniques.
  14. Demonstrate effective teaching of DBT skills with constructive feedback and support.
  15. Support how interpersonal skills practice in therapy settings can help clients be in relationships without losing their sense of self.
  16. Develop a 'Wise Mind' together with the client state for increased awareness and self-regulation.
  17. Develop a skill kit for clients in emotional crisis using distress tolerance skills.
  18. Develop approaches to facilitate client engagement and commitment to DBT homework assignments.

“Develop a practical and systematic way of working that is both deeply respectful and playful."  John Butters

How will you benefit from attending this training?

  • Develop a specific understanding of BPD and how dialectical behaviour therapy speaks to the symptoms.
  • Take skills away that can be practiced immediately.
  • Provide a practical way of developing your skills as a counsellor or other helping professional.

Copyright : 10/10/2022

MENTALISING BASED TREATMENT (MBT) - Helping your stuck clients with insight and self regulation.

Mentalising is one of the most taken-for-granted, least distinctive phenomena that might occur in our day-to-day lives, and more relevantly, in our therapeutic conversations.When it’s happening well, we relate to ourselves and others flexibly and creatively, human behaviours appear predictable, and making meaning in our lives is possible…and when it is absent, well…you get the picture.

In personality disorders, the capacity to mentalise has been shown through numerous studies to be compromised. Mentalising Based Treatment (MBT) was developed by Peter Fonagy and Anthony Bateman, to treat this deficit in some of the most vulnerable individuals. We will be exploring this necessary capacity and MBT, and you’ll get a chance to understand / build and encourage interventions that aim to strengthen this capacity in your clinical work.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Participants will learn about the origins of mentalising in human development.
  2. Participants will learn the links between the capacity to mentalise and attachment security.
  3. Participants will learn about Borderline Personality Disorder as an example of significant mentalising deficit.
  4. How to spot breakdown in mentalising in clinical conversations.
  5. How to encourage mentalising using heirarchy approach.
  6. Roleplay Basic stance or watch mentalising in practice discussing case presentation.

"Strengthen a skill that you already apply every day, to broaden and deepen your clinical work" John Butters

How Will you Benefit From This Training?

  • Participants will develop a skill they already have - and supercharge it.
  • Participants will deepen their understanding of attachment and its importance to clinical work.
  • Participants will be encouraged to apply this approach to their own models and ways of working… to build on strength.

 

Copyright : 12/05/2021

C-DBT Consultation Recording with John Butters

Copyright : 27/07/2023