DBT Certification Training from Start to Finish: Integrative & Customizable Treatment Strategies for Every Client

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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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Charles Jacob, PhD Related seminars and products

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Charles Jacob, PhD, is a psychologist, research scientist, and author with over 20 years of clinical experience conducting and overseeing the delivery of mental health services to individuals with severe mood and personality disorders. He is a recognized expert in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Motivational Interviewing (MI) and has delivered workshops, seminars, and courses on these topics at universities and institutions throughout the world. He has held numerous academic positions, and currently works as a research associate for a Washington DC-based consulting firm. He is a past president of the ACA’s Pennsylvania branch and has been a featured interviewee on several episodes of NPR’s The Pulse.

Dr. Jacob completed his PhD in the counseling ed program at the Pennsylvania State University followed by a year of postgraduate training at the Center for Cognitive Therapy at Penn. He was a Fulbright Specialist through the US Department of State, is certified in DBT and is an Evergreen Certifications approved CBT-C consultant.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Charles Jacob maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with U.S. Department of Commerce/Department of Labor and the Pennsylvania State University. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Charles Jacob is a member of the American Counseling Association.

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Objectives

1. Identify essential concepts to implement dialectical behavior therapy (DBT).
2. Formulate specific approaches to explain DBT principles.
3. Utilize mindfulness to manage emotions.
4. Choose mindfulness-based skill to cultivate awareness.
5. Use mindfulness principles to embrace the here and now.
6. Identify emotion regulation principles to navigate intense emotions.
7. Choose emotion regulation skills to build resilience to emotional turbulence.
8. Develop emotional stability with emotion regulation tools.
9. Use distress tolerance tools to resist self-destructive behaviors.
10. Develop endurance of difficult circumstances with distress tolerance skills.
11. Identify distress tolerance skills to improve impulse control.
12. Choose interpersonal communication skills to communicate assertively.
13. Develop fulfilling connections with improved interpersonal communication techniques.
14. Utilize interpersonal communication principles to set healthy boundaries.
15. Integrate ACT-based interventions to deepen mindfulness in DBT sessions.
16. Choose Motivational Interviewing strategies to improve engagement in DBT sessions.
17. Integrate Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy into DBT sessions to improve insight into internal conflicts.
18. Determine considerations needed to facilitate group DBT sessions.
19. Choose parenting-focused DBT skills to integrate into family sessions.
20. Develop DBT-based interventions to help reduce self-directed violence.
21. Identify common adaptations to DBT that target trauma.

Outline

• Discover the essential concepts, principles, and strategies required for a successful DBT journey

• Develop greater therapeutic presence and alignment with clients
• Teach clients how to “embrace the here and now” without non-sense
• Cultivate awareness, manage emotions, and reduce reactivity
• In-session video demonstration

• Get a roadmap for helping clients navigate intense emotions
• Build resilience to emotional turbulence
• Foster emotional stability and increase your client’s overall sense of well-being
• Activity demonstrations with real clients

• Gain practical tools to help clients endure difficult circumstances
• Lead clients toward resistance to self-destructive behaviors and improved impulse control
• Help ensure emotional crises are managed constructively
• Client handouts

• Teach your clients to communicate assertively, set boundaries, and develop healthy interpersonal dynamics
• Decrease “drama” and promote more fulfilling and harmonious connections
• In-session video demonstration

• Gain knowledge and skills needed to assess suicidal crises and self-directed violence toward appropriate interventions
• More deeply understand ethics and responsibilities related to crises and self-directed Violence

• Practical “Radical Acceptance” ideas
• Basics of exposure therapy for trauma
• How to manage co-occurring OCD
• Anxiety-specific interventions based on DBT skills
• Research-supported adaptations for treating trauma

• Flexible DBT-based interventions for relationship counselling
• Experience exercises for each pillar of DBT
• Parenting-focused DBT skills that can be integrated into family or individual sessions

• Practical considerations for effective group dynamics
• Experiential exercises for basic tenets of DBT with group-specific considerations
• Diary cards as valuable tools for tracking emotions, behaviors, and progress
• Considerations for inpatient groups
• Diary Cards and other client materials

• Use DBT basics to support independent practice
• Integrate DBT with Internal Family Systems therapy to help clients gain more insight into internal conflicts
• Use strategies from Motivational Interviewing to help keep clients motivated and engaged
• Incorporate ACT-based interventions to keep clients committed to therapy and deepen mindfulness and acceptance
• In-session video demonstrations

Target Audience

• Counsellors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Addiction Counsellors
• Nurses
• Other Mental Health Professionals
• Physicians
• Art Therapists