3-Day: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Certification Training

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Lane Pederson, PsyD, LP, C-DBT Related seminars and products

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Lane Pederson, PsyD, LP, C-DBT, has provided Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) training and consultation to over 30,000 professionals in the United States, Australia, South Africa, England, Canada, Mexico, and the Middle East through his training and consultation company, Lane Pederson and Associates, LLC (www.DrLanePederson.com).  A real world practitioner, Dr. Pederson co-owns Mental Health Systems, PC (MHS), one of the largest DBT-specialized practices in the United States with four clinic locations in Minnesota (www.mhs-dbt.com).  At MHS, Dr. Pederson has developed DBT programs for adolescents, adults, people with dual disorders, and people with developmental disabilities.  He has served as clinical and training directors, has directed practice-based clinical outcome studies, and has overseen the care of thousands of clients in need of intensive outpatient services.

Dr. Pederson’s DBT publications include The Expanded Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training Manual, 2nd Edition: DBT for Self-Help and Individual & Group Treatment Settings  (PESI, 2017); Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A Contemporary Guide for Practitioners (Wiley, 2015); Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training for Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment Settings (PESI, 2013) and The DBT Deck for Clients and Therapists: 101 Mindful Practices to Manage Distress, Regulate Emotions & Build Better Relationships (PESI, 2019).

Notable organizations he has trained for include Walter Reed National Military Hospital, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the Ontario Psychological Association, the Omid Foundation, and Psychotherapy Networker.  He has provided DBT training for community mental health agencies, chemical dependency treatment centers, hospital and residential care settings, and to therapists in forensic settings.  Dr. Pederson also co-owns Acacia Therapy and Health Training (www.AcaciaTraining.co.za) in South Africa. Dr. Pederson currently serves on the advisory board for the doctorial counseling program at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota and is a peer reviewer for Forensic Scholars Today.

Lane Pederson is not affiliated or associated with Marsha M. Linehan, PhD, ABPP, or her organization.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Lane Pederson maintains private practice and is the founder and CEO of Dialectical Behavior Therapy National Certification and Accreditation Association. He receives compensation as a national speaker and receives royalties as a published author. Lane Pederson receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Lane Pederson has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Objectives

1. Analyze the origins of Biosocial Theory and communicate the clinical implications of the theory.
2. Determine how DBT skills can help clients identify unhealthy interaction styles.
3. Determine how mindfulness skills can empower clients to interpret situations in new ways and react in healthier ways.
4. Demonstrate how clinicians can effectively teach DBT skills and encourage support and constructive feedback in a group setting.
5. Develop ways in which clinicians can maximize client buy-in for DBT homework assignments.
6. Determine how interpersonal skills training can be used with clients to improve relationships.
7. Determine how DBT skills can be used to decrease the likelihood of compassion fatigue in clinicians.
8. Demonstrate how DBT skills can be utilized to identify and overcome obstacles to changing emotions and reactive behaviours.
9. Devise ways in which DBT can be adapted for working with children and adolescents.
10. Appraise how DBT can be used in working with trauma survivors.
11. Demonstrate how diary cards can be used by clients to monitor their emotions and track how they are using DBT skills to deal with challenges.
12. Effectively utilize a chain analysis with clients to help them gain insight into how they can change problem behaviours.
13. Determine how opposite action strategies can be used by clients to reduce self destructive urges.
14. Support how interpersonal effectiveness exercises can be employed in therapy to help clients keep relationship without sacrificing their self-respect.
15. Utilize a pros and cons list that can help clients see the consequences of their actions and make better choices when they are faced with a difficult decision.
16. Apply strategies to confront therapy interfering behaviours and help clients overcome avoidance.
17. Determine how Dialectical Behavior Therapy interventions can help clients foster radical acceptance of traumatic events and reduce feelings of shame, guilt and fear.
18. Specify how the STOP skills can help clients to manage crisis situations and prevent them from doing something impulsive they might regret later.
19. Determine how clinicians can use the levels of validation to enhance the therapeutic alliance and teach clients to validate themselves.
20. Employ DBT skills that can be used with clients to reduce self-harm and suicidal behaviours.
21. Develop a client’s Wise Mind state so they can be more aware and less impulsive in their actions.

Outline

Foundations of DBT

• Biosocial Theory
• Characteristics of DBT
• DBT as an evidence-based practice
• Dialectics: the balance of acceptance and change

DBT in the Clinical Setting

• Application of DBT in the individual and group therapy setting
• Skills training methods
• Validation strategies
• Research and limitations

DBT SKILLS TRAINING

Mindfulness: Cultivate the Skills at the Core of Successful DBT Therapy

• Acceptance vs. judgement
• Wise mind – achieve harmony between emotion and reason
• Accessible exercises for building mindfulness skills
  • Observation – keep clients calm, centred and aware
  • Describe – overcome assumptions
  • Participation – release judgement and fear
• Strategies for teaching mindfully and exercises for therapy

Interpersonal Effectiveness: Skills to Build Better Relationships and Lives

• Tools to identify strengths
• Balancing relationships with self-respect
• Exercises and role play guidance on how to:
  • Develop healthy assertiveness skills
  • Enhance conflict resolution skills
  • Build empathy
  • Keep problems from building up
  • Resist pressure
• Top strategies for changing behaviour

Emotion Regulation: Practical Skills for Healthier Emotions and Greater Resilience

• Strong emotions and poor coping skills
• How to change unwanted emotions
• Reduce emotional vulnerability while practising self-care
• Opposite action skills to reduce maladaptive behaviour
• Emotion Regulation exercises
• Self-soothing strategies that work
• Learn the sleep hygiene protocol

Distress Tolerance: Skills to Cope with Painful Moments and Survive Crisis

• Developing crisis survival and reality acceptance skills
• 4 options to solving problems
• Problem solving case studies
• Using pros and cons to make decisions
• STOP skills to manage crisis situations
• The steps to practising radical experience
• Tools to accept change

DBT in Clinical Practice

• Analyzing behaviours: chain analysis & missing links analysis
• Diary cards and homework with clients
• Identify therapy interfering behaviours
• Develop skills to identify and manage self-harming & suicidal behaviours

Self-Harm and Suicidal Crises: A Roadmap for Assessment and Intervention

• Screening and assessment tools for self-harming behaviours
• Interventions and treatment considerations for the self-harming population
• Suicide risk as a skills deficit problem
• Tools and techniques to assess for level of risk
• Firearms, medications, and lethal-means restriction plans that work
• Safety plans and crisis intervention

Adapt DBT with Different Populations

• Children and adolescents
• Trauma survivors
• Substance abusers

DBT: The Therapist and Consultation Group

• 3 ways to decrease therapist burnout
• The characteristics of an effective DBT team
• Integrating DBT into your practice

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Psychologists
• Psychotherapists
• Psychiatrists
• Social Workers
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Case Managers
• Nurses
• Mental Health Professionals