This workshop is intended for experienced mental health professionals who have attended a CEBMH 1 day or two day workshop and are looking for more advanced trianing in DBT.
Subjects covered in the two day training include:
Stylistic strategies: How to reframe suicidal and other behaviours as part of the clients learned ‘problem solving’ repertoire. You will learn to balance active problem solving with validating the client’s current emotional state and behavioural responses. This session will teach you to blend a ‘matter-of-fact’, irreverent attitude towards current and previous dysfunctional behaviours with warmth, flexibility and responsiveness to the client.
Attention to contingencies: Ways to influence behaviour. BPD individuals actively avoid threatening situations. This session will assist you expose you client in session and in vivo to fear eliciting stimuli. You will learn to arrange and encourage exposures.
Validation: This session will be an in-depth practice of validating the client’s thoughts feelings and actions. You will learn to search for the grain of wisdom or truth in each client response and know how to communicate that to the client. The emphasis here is on building and maintaining a positive, interpersonal, collaborative relationship between client and therapist
Format and organization of sessions: Learn how to structure a session and stay on task. Learn how to use diary cards to maximize success of a session. You will learn to manage issues that come up in session in a timely manner and how to conduct chain analysis of problem behaviours.
Core Mindfulness Skills: Learn how to practice mindfulness with your clients every session. This session will focus on using skills to balance emotion mind and reasonable mind to achieve wise mind. You will practice strategies and skills that you will then be able to impart to your clients
Interpersonal effectiveness skills: Learn effective strategies for asking for what one needs, saying no and coping with conflict. Learn how to assist your clients in analyzing a situation and determining their goals for interpersonal effectiveness.
Emotion regulation skills: Suicidal behaviours are often behavioural solutions to intolerably painful emotions. Learn to assist your clients in identifying the difference between their primary emotion (adaptive and appropriate to the context), and their secondary response (intense shame, anxiety or rage). Learn ways of exposing your client to their primary emotion in a non judgemental atmosphere.
Distress tolerance skills: The ability to tolerate and accept distress is essential. Learn how to teach your clients to perceive their own environment without putting demands on it to be different. Learn how to teach your clients to experience their own emotional state without attempting to change it, and to observe their own thoughts and action patterns without attempting to stop or control them.
Presenter: Julie King (Team Leader - Student Welfare at a Melbourne Secondary College & Senior Trainer - Centre for Evidence Based Mental Health)
Julie has a graduate diploma in applied psychology where her research examined the impact client suicide has on Australian Clinical Psychologists. She is about to submit her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology researching the social and emotional impact of intellectual giftedness. Julie has spent the past 7 years working for General Practice under the Better Outcomes in Mental Health care Initiative. She has tutored at University, developed and delivered training for Crisis Support Services and has experience with public mental health. Julie currently works in educational psychology leading a team of counsellors and psychologists at a Melbourne Secondary College.
Julie has extensive clinical experience in assessing and treating chronically suicidal individuals with Borderline Personality Disorders. She was responsible for the implementation of a full DBT program for homeless adolescents in Melbourne. Julie has delivered and attended numerous DBT workshops in Australia and the USA. Julie provides extensive training in DBT as a senior trainer with the Centre for Evidence Based Mental Health providing introductory and advanced level trainings, as well as consultation and supervision in DBT.