3-Hour DBT Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills Quick Course: 10+ Tools to Help Clients Strengthen Relationships, Set Boundaries and Build Self-Respect

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All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

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Corey Pitts, LCMHC Related seminars and products

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Corey Pitts, LCMHC, is a mental health therapist and clinical supervisor working in private practice. Corey has been a therapist for close to ten years and is an adjunct instructor with the Division of Mental Health Counseling at The University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill School of Medicine. He specializes in the treatment and management of co-occurring disorders such as trauma, anxiety/depression, substance use, as well as aspects of various mood and personality disorders. He uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy and has several years of experience implementing it in a wide array of treatment settings including community outreach models as well as Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in a rural community that was once fifth in the nation for opioid-related overdoses. Corey also holds tenure in providing DBT within co-morbid hospital-based intensive outpatient (IOP) settings (primarily substance use disorders/borderline personality disorder) holding both skills-based DBT groups and individual DBT therapy interventions. Corey is known for a teaching style that makes vague concepts seem simple to grasp and use.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Corey Pitts has employment relationships with BetterHelp.com, UNC School of Medicine, Teladoc Health, and E-Care Behavioral Health Institute. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Corey Pitts has no relevant non-financial relationships.

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Objectives

1. Utilize principles of interpersonal effectiveness to improve emotional functioning in clients.
2. Use DBT interpersonal effectiveness skills to improve clients’ ability to communicate, set boundaries, and resolve conflicts in social relationships
3. Utilize validation and acceptance strategies from DBT to help reduce rejection sensitivity and negative feelings.

Outline

• Finding and “getting people” to like you” skills
• Objective, self-respect and relational effectiveness tool
• “DEARMAN” enhance clients’ skillsets in asking for what it is they want, saying no to requests effectively
• “FAST” strategies to keep and maintain self-respect effectiveness
• “GIVE” strategies to keep and maintain relationship effectiveness
• Mindfulness skills that allow immersion into conversation
• Dialectics and seeing there’s more than one way to solve a problem
• The “how to’s” to validation for self and others
• Research, risks and limitations

Target Audience

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