Comprehensive Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Presented by Michele Galietta, PhD
This self-paced training program on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Implementation is presented by Michele Galietta, PhD.
This comprehensive training is designed specifically for individual therapists or skills trainers who are members of an intensively trained DBT team, but have not completed Intensive training themselves. It is meant to assist teams that have hired new staff or experienced turnover by allowing newer team members to get trained in the standard content of DBT.
This program includes training in Skills DBT. The DBT Skills Training program is an excellent means of training new team members and milieu/line staff, and strengthening existing team members’ skills. This self-paced online training program focuses on Skills Training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a comprehensive cognitive behavioral treatment that is increasingly being used in a variety of health settings. Comprehensive DBT has been found to have great practical utility for the reduction of violence and self-harm. DBT Skills are an essential component of comprehensive DBT and some evidence suggests that skills alone, with case management may efficacious for less acute individuals as well. The primary focus of this course will be the content and delivery of the skills component of DBT with emphasis on relevant adaptations for forensic clients (e.g., substance abuse, skills for reducing violence & obsessional thinking).
Throughout the course, didactic presentation with relevant case examples will alternate with participant practice of DBT skills. This course will contain discussion of strategies for successful implementation and interactive discussion with participants about potential application of DBT Skills to their settings/populations. Participants will learn how to apply and teach the effective DBT skills of Core Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Distress Tolerance, and Emotion Regulation. Participants will also learn how to apply and teach the effective DBT skills of Core Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Distress Tolerance, and Emotion Regulation.
This program includes Forensic Applications of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) training. Dialectical Behavior Therapy is a comprehensive cognitive behavioral treatment originally developed for women with chronic suicidality and borderline personality disorder. Since the 1990s, DBT has been subjected to numerous clinical trials, and been adapted for a variety of populations including adolescents and forensic inpatients and outpatients. DBT has been found to have great practical utility for the reduction of violence and self-harm in forensic settings.
This program will provide participants with a thorough introduction to standard DBT, as well as specific adaptations and strategies useful with a variety of adult and juvenile forensic settings (e.g., jails/prisons, forensic hospitals, juvenile justice settings, probation.) DBT can reduce problem behaviors in individual clients, and also functions to stabilize the milieu by employing eastern principles of acceptance and compassion paired with careful application of behaviorism. The course will discuss comprehensive DBT in forensic settings, and the research supporting this intervention.
The following texts are required for this training program:
Upon completion of this course you will be able to:
Describe an introduction to DBT
Describe salient features of the research behind DBT
Describe adaptations of DBT for specialized settings and populations
Describe the structure of DBT
Describe bio-social theory of DBT
Describe the therapist and client agreements in DBT
Describe the assumptions of clients and therapy in DBT
Describe the therapist and client agreements in DBT
Describe the modes of DBT and their Function
Describe the modes and functions for their DBT Program
Michele Galietta, PhD
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Review Before Proceeding
Introduction to DBT
Structure of DBT Skills Training Example
Quiz #1a
DBT Research
Quiz #1b
DBT Theory
DBT with Emotion Regulation Deficits
Quiz #1c
DBT Structure
Quiz #1d
DBT Inpatient Adaptation
Quiz #1e
DBT Stages of Treatment
Quiz #1f
DBT Skills Group
Quiz #1g
DBT Skills Introduction - Part 1
Quiz #2a
DBT Skills Introduction - Part 2
Quiz #2b
Orienting
Core Mindfulness Skills
Quiz #2c
Distress Tolerance - Part 1
Quiz #2d
Distress Tolerance - Part 2
Homework Review: Half Smile
Middle Path Skills
Middle Path Skills: Dialectics - What is it?
Middle Path Skills - What's Typical for Adolescents?
Quiz #2e
Emotion Regulation
Emotion Regulation Handouts
Why Bother?
Quiz #2f
Interpersonal Efffectiveness
Mindfulness Activity & Homework
Risk Assessment
Quiz #3a
Risk Factors
Quiz #3b
Behavioral Chain Analysis
Quiz #3c
BCA Practice 1
BCA Practice 2
Mindfulness Activity & Homework
Validation and Commitment Introduction
DBT Case Formulation Steps - Adolescent
Quiz #4a
Validation
Quiz #4b
Validation Exercise 1
Validation Exercise 2
Commitment Strategies
Quiz #4c
Commitment Practice
Mindfulness Practice and Homework Review
Structure of DBT Therapy
Targeting Exercise
Targeting Exercise Key
Quiz #4d
Targeting Exercise 2
Targeting Using a Diary Card
Adolescent Diary Card
ITM Skills Diary Card
Instructions for Diary Card
Quiz #4e
Diary Card Exercise
Case Formulation
Quiz #4f
The First Four Sessions
Quiz #4g
Orienting to the Treatment
Quiz #4h
Agenda Setting Exercise
Mindfulness Practice & Homework Review
Behavioral Principles of DBT - Introduction
Quiz #5a
Didactic Strategies
Understanding Behavior: Definitions
Quiz #5b
Reinforcement and Punishment
Quiz #5c
Shaping and Extinction
Quiz #5d
Getting Rid of a Behavior You Don't Like
Quiz #5e
Mindfulness and Chain Practice
Homework Review
Cognitive Strategies: Restructuring
Quiz #5f
Exposure
Quiz #5g
Communication Strategies and Protocol for Treatment Interfering Behavior
DBT in the Milieu
Egregious Behavior Protocol
Mindfulness & Homework Review
Risk Review
Quiz #6a
Coaching - Telephone & In-vivo
Coaching Exercise and Discussion - Part 1
Coaching Exercise and Discussion - Part 2
Dealing with Crises
Quiz #6b
Dealing with Crises Exercise
Mindfulness Activity & Homework
Consultation Team: The Backbone of DBT
Consultation Team - Part 2
Putting it All Together
Quiz #6c
Course Evaluation
Custom training options for groups of 5 to 500+