Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is one of the fastest growing approaches — because it works! It harnesses the power of CBT and mindfulness in a strategic way that gets results.
And now you can learn how to share and adapt the evidence-based DBT model for children and adolescents in practical and engaging ways — tailored to their unique developmental needs.
Join DBT expert Jean Eich, Psy.D, LP, to discover how DBT can help the kids you work with manage out of control behaviours and emotional regulation deficits that can often be associated with ADHD, attachment disorder, ODD, eating disorders, anxiety, depression, substance abuse and more...
You'll get step by step instruction on how to use mindfulness strategies and techniques that will help young clients observe and identify moments of distress, master skills to manage their emotions and behaviours and develop communication strategies to talk about how they're feeling so they can maintain healthy positive relationships.
This course will help make even your most challenging child and adolescent clients easier to treat by showing you step by step how you can use DBT in a fluid and flexible way specific to your client population — so you can help transform treatment outcomes and improve the health, well-being and happiness of today's youth.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Skills Training for Children and Adolescents:
Rescuing the Dysregulated Child
Valued at $229.90
Today Only $99.99 (GST Inclusive) — An Unbelievable Value!
Earn up to 6.25 CPD Hours — included in the price!
Learning DBT will change your clinical work with children and adolescents...
In this comprehensive, 5-module online course, expert Jean Eich, PsyD, LP, will give you the skills training you need to successfully implement DBT into your work with children and adolescents. Here's everything included in the online training course:
You'll begin your training by exploring the fundamental ingredients of DBT. Join Jean as she shows you how dialectics can be used to treat the whole person rather than a disorder or illness and how practicing an extreme form of acceptance will help drive change in your clients of all ages. You will also take an in-depth look at...
- Key ingredients of effective DBT practice
- Effects of inadequate validation in early emotional development
- Symptoms of a pervasive emotional dysregulation disorder
In module two, you'll explore how the developmental stages of children and adolescents can be used to guide and inform your treatment plan. Join Jean as she shows you how to create an environment that allows childrean and teens to practice their new skills and abilities. Together, you will explore...
- How to use developmental stages as a guide for what is typical or beyond typical in a child or teen's presentation
- Strategies to support development for adolescents adjusting to a changing body
- Tools for helping children establish an identity, develop responsibility and build autonomy
Begin module three by examining the standard dialectical dilemmas and how these dilemmas change for children and adolescents. You'll then learn the structure and treatment stages that will guide your decisions on what to treat and when. Finally, you'll cover how to measure your client outcomes to help improve treatment and success of clients.
- How to structure therapy and the environment to create safety, predicatability and success
- Including parents in the treatment process
- Using the DBT stags and targets to keep therapy on track
- Adapting targets or goals to fit the needs of your client
- The 5 functions your therapy program needs
- Creating an effective skills training environment for children of all ages
In module four, you'll learn how to use skills training to help decrease maladaptive behaviours while increasing adaptive behaviours. Jean will show you step by step how to integrate skills into your therapy practice and the methods you need to effectively teach skills training to children and adolescents.
- How clients can use Mindfulness to be planful and responsive
- Strategies for accepting reality, including radical acceptance
- Survival skills to get through a crisis without making it worse
- How to increase clients' abilities to copy with future stress
- Tools to reduce emotional suffering and vulnerability and increase positive emotions
In the final module, you'll complete your skills training knowledge by learning how to teach your clients interpersonal effectiveness skills. You'll then explore age appropriate interventions and strategies for validation, reciprocal communication, behaviour chains, diary cards and more. Finally, you'll discover how to use your new DBT skills when working with depression, anxiety, eating disorders, substance abuse, PTSD and trauma, ADHD, ODD and attachment disorder.
- Tools for helping clients build and maintain healthy relationships
- Validation and alignment interventions to help regulate emotions and decrease their intensity
- How to utilize DBT agreements with parents and clients
- Strategies for helping caregivers reinforce the child's new skills and healthy behaviours
- Using diary cards to track symptoms and skill use
- Adapting DBT for many diagnoses
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Skills Training for Children and Adolescents:
Rescuing the Dysregulated Child
Valued at $229.90
Today Only $99.99 (GST Inclusive) — An Unbelievable Value!
Earn up to 6.25 CPD Hours — included in the price!
Just think if you had a go-to book that would help solve your toughest challenges when working with troubled teens. Now you can get a complete skills training manual for DBT with adolescents, focused on practical application for teens, parents and therapists, all in one comprehensive manual.
- Part One covers DBT for teens with comprehensive and age-relevant skills explanations, examples, applied worksheets and teaching pages for all four DBT skills training modules.
- Part Two is a dedicated focus to parents with pertinent information on DBT, parenting, and common teenage developmental issues.
- Part Three is filled with practical strategies on how to conduct DBT programming, tips to navigate dialectical dilemmas with adolescent developmental tasks and behaviours, and advice to balance therapy with parental involvement.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Skills Training for Children and Adolescents:
Rescuing the Dysregulated Child
Valued at $229.90
Today Only $99.99 (GST Inclusive) — An Unbelievable Value!
Earn up to 6.25 CPD Hours — included in the price!
Jean Eich, PsyD, LP, is a Licensed Psychologist and has experience working in hospital, school, private practice, and community mental health settings. She has provided DBT services for 8+ years at the largest DBT clinic in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. Dr. Eich has developed, facilitated, and coordinated DBT programming for adolescents and their parents. Additionally, she has written curriculum and facilitated programming for adults with mental illness and developmental delays and has helped to design and maintain studies examining clinical outcomes of DBT programs. Dr. Eich is an adjunct assistant professor in the Masters of Counseling and Psychological Services program at St. Mary’s University. She currently serves clients at her private practice, Maplewood Psychology, where she continues to assist adults and adolescents with a variety of mental health concerns.
Speaker Disclosures: Financial: Jean Eich has an employment relationship with Watercourse Counseling Center; Fairview Hospitals; and Maplewood Psychology. She is an adjunct assistant professor at Saint Mary’s University. Dr. Eich is an author for PESI Publishing & Media and receives royalties. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. Non-financial: Jean Eich is a member of the American Psychological Association; and the Minnesota Psychological Association.
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Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Skills Training for Children and Adolescents:
Rescuing the Dysregulated Child
Valued at $229.90
Today Only $99.99 (GST Inclusive) — An Unbelievable Value!
Earn up to 6.25 CPD Hours — included in the price!