3-Day: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Certification Training

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Charles Jacob, PhD Related seminars and products

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Charles Jacob, PhD, is a faculty member at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. He received his PhD from The Pennsylvania State University and completed a year of additional training at the Center for Cognitive Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania. He has over 15 years of clinical experience conducting and overseeing the delivery of mental health services to individuals with severe mood and personality disorders as well as their families.

Dr. Jacob is an expert in cognitive therapy, as well as a highly regarded clinician and scholar. He has regularly delivered lectures on cognitive behavioral therapies throughout the country and has been an invited speaker at universities throughout the world. Dr. Jacob is an Evergreen Certifications approved CBT-C consultant. He is a past president of the ACA’s Pennsylvania branch, a recipient of PCA’s David W. Hall Advocacy Award, and has been a featured interview in Counseling Today as well as NPR’s The Pulse.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Charles Jacob maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. He receives a grant from the United States Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Dr. Jacob receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He is a paid consultant for Evergreen Certifications. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Charles Jacob 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. Demonstrate 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 acceptance
• 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
• Social Workers
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Case Managers
• Nurses
• Physicians
• Mental Health Professionals