Dialectical Behavior Therapy in Action: Case Based Training ©

Presenters: Shari Manning, PhD and Kate Comtois, PhD, MPH

DBT in Action: Case Based Training© is for individuals who have been practicing DBT Individual Psychotherapy in the context of a comprehensive program. This training will build on existing skills and provide opportunities for feedback and consultation designed to increase the capacities necessary for certification in Dialectical Behavior Therapy.

Participants will follow a client named “Lisa” through Stage 1 DBT. Participants will function as “Lisa’s” individual therapist and conduct sessions that include pre-treatment, commitment, chain analysis and the interventions that are chosen as part of solution analysis. Strategies will be identified, coached and strengthened by the trainers and other participants. As others are conducting DBT individual therapy sessions and/or presenting cases, other participants will be identifying strategies in individual therapy sessions, looking for what is DBT and what is not, and focus on the provision of effective DBT consultation.

Additionally, participants will bring a case formulation of one DBT individual therapy client to the training for consultation.

This is a highly experiential training with myriad learning opportunities. All participants will be expected to demonstrate and receive feedback on DBT principles and strategies. There will a case formulation assignment to be completed prior to the training.

This training is designed for anyone with experience with individual psychotherapy in DBT. It will assume a strong baseline knowledge of the structure and components of treatment. Trainers will not take time to orient to basic content of DBT.

When: March 15-18, 2017

Time: see SCHEDULE below

Location: Arcadia Community Church, 121 East Alice Street, Arcadia CA 91006

CE units: 25.0 with full attendance of all four days

Course Level: Intermediate to Advanced

Course Prerequisites
Prior training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy and substantial experience providing DBT individual psychotherapy. It will assume a strong baseline knowledge of the structure and components of treatment. Trainers will not take time to orient to basic content of DBT.

Cost: Tuition includes daily breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack options

Early Bird: 11/1/16 – 12/15/16
$1250.00 per person for groups of 3 or more
$1350.00 for individuals

Standard Registration: 12/16/16-3/1/17 (or until participant max is reached)
$1450.00 per person for groups of 3 or more
$1550.00 for individuals

Click here to go to an Institute for Girls’ Development registration page

OBJECTIVES
Following this training, participants will be able to:

Formulate a DBT individual therapy case from pre-treatment through Stage 2
Identify biosocial theory in a client
Describe the transaction between biology and invalidating environment in a DBT client
Explain the difference between Stage 1 and Stage 2 DBT
Formulate Life Worth Living Goals for a Client
Break the client’s Life Worth Living Goals into behaviorally defined problems
Create a DBT Stage 1 primary target hierarchy for a client
Describe each of the secondary targets in DBT
Formulate a client’s behavior into the secondary targets
Conduct pre-treatment sessions that increase commitment to treatment by the patient
Structure adherent DBT sessions
Conduct effective chain analyses
Identify controlling variables for problem behaviors through DBT chain and behavioral assessment
Generate and test a hypothesis for a client problem behavior
Create a solution analysis for a problem behavior
Demonstrate informal exposure in DBT Stage 1 individual therapy sessions
Highlight and treat in-session dysfunctional behavior when it arises
Explain how a dialectical tension is treated with each dialectical strategy
Create effective contingency management plans for use by individual therapists and/or milieu/teams
Describe how to use cognitive modification as a solution in DBT
Describe how to use behavioral skills as a solution in DBT
Demonstrate effective consultation team strategies

SCHEDULE
Day 1

7:45 – 8:30 Sign in, breakfast, announcements
8:30 – 10:00 Mindfulness

Introductions, Orientation
Presenting case formulations
Identifying DBT strategies when watching sessions

10:00 – 10:15 Break
10:15 – 11:30 Practice Session: Pre-treatment

De-brief, teaching
Case formulation practices

11:30 – 12:30 Lunch
12:30 – 2:15 Case formulation practices
2:15 – 2:30 Break
2:30 – 4:15 Practice Session: Identifying the Life Worth Living Goal & stage 1 targets

De-brief, teaching
Case formulation practices
4:15 – 4:30 Q&A, evaluations

Day 2:

7:45 – 8:30 Sign in, breakfast, announcements
8:30 -10:00 Mindfulness

Practice Session: Chain analysis 1
De-brief, teaching

10:00 – 10:15 Break
10:15 – 11:30 Using dialectical strategies – Case formulation practices
11:30 – 12:30 Lunch
12:30 – 2:15 Practice Session: Chain analysis 2

De-brief, teaching

2:15 – 2:30 Break
2:30 – 4:15 Case formulation practices
4:15 – 4:30 Q&A, evaluations

Day 3:

7:45 – 8:30 Sign in, breakfast, announcements
8:30 – 10:00 Practice Session: Identifying controlling variables and moving to solutions

De-brief, teaching

10:00 – 10:15 Break
10:15 – 11:30 Creating contingency management plans

Case formulation practices

11:30 – 12:30 Lunch
12:30 – 2:15 Practice Session: Informal Exposure

De-brief, teaching
Case formulation practices

2:15 – 2:30 Break
2:30 – 4:15 Case formulation practices
4:15 – 4:30 Q&A, evaluation

Day 4:

7:45 – 8:30 Sign in, breakfast, announcements
8:30 – 10:00 Practice Session: In-session dysfunctional behaviors

De-brief, teaching
Case formulation practices

10:00 – 10:15 Break
10:15 – 11:30 Case formulation practices

Teaching: Running effective consultation teams

11:30 – 12:30 Lunch
12:30 – 2:15 Practice Session: Consultation team
2:15 – 3:15 Moving your practice to the next level, what to do next?
3:15 – 3:30 Q&A, evaluation

PRESENTERS
Shari Manning, PhD is a founder and the Chief Executive of the Treatment Implementation Collaborative, LLC, a company that provides training, consultation and supervision in the implementation and provision of evidence based treatments. She is the former President/CEO of Behavioral Tech, LLC and Behavioral Tech Research, Inc., two companies that provide training, consultation and research in Dialectical Behavior Therapy. She is also the founder of the South Carolina Center for Dialectical Behavior Therapy (now the SC Center for DBT, LLC), a private practice that offers standard outpatient and intensive DBT treatment for adults and adolescents. She has supervised therapists at the Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics at the University of Washington and the University of South Carolina as well as training and supervising therapists and programs at the SC Department of Mental Health and SC Department of Corrections. Dr. Manning consults extensively to state and private mental health programs, domestically and internationally, at all levels of client care, including forensic and criminal justice settings. Her research includes investigations of the efficacy of DBT with incarcerated women with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and with adult women with co-morbid BPD and eating disorders. Dr. Manning has written several published chapters and articles on DBT and its implementation and her book for family members, Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder: How to Keep Out-of-Control Emotions from Destroying Your Relationship.
For more information: http://www.ticllc.org/Shari_Manning.html

Kate Comtois, PhD, MPH is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington. She received her Ph.D. in clinical/community psychology from the University of Maryland in 1992. Dr. Comtois conducts research evaluating mental health services and the implementation of evidence-based practices in large health systems. Dr. Comtois has been an individual and skills training research therapist as well as co-investigator on multiple clinical trials of DBT with Dr. Marsha Linehan. She has been the principal investigator on clinical trials to improve services to suicidal individuals and individuals with borderline personality disorder funded by the NIMH, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and the Military Operational Medicine Research Program. Dr. Comtois has directed the Harborview Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) program in a public mental health center for 15 years. This program received the best direct service program of all Medicaid-funded mental health or substance abuse programs in Seattle/King County in 2000. Dr. Comtois and her DBT team also developed the DBT-Accepting the Challenges of Exiting the System (DBT-ACES) program – an advanced year of DBT assisting psychiatrically disabled patients with severe borderline personality disorder to return to work and graduate from public mental health services. Dr. Comtois has been assisting programs to implement DBT since 1996. She has provided training and consultation on DBT to community mental health agencies, inpatient psychiatric programs, outpatient and residential substance abuse treatment, juvenile and adult corrections, private and university outpatient clinics, and primary care. She has trained across the United States as well as in Canada, England, and Australia.
For more information: http://www.ticllc.org/Katherine_Comtois.html

CONTINUING EDUCATION
Certificates of Attendance will be provided to each attendee who completes all 25 training hours. Note: No partial continuing education credit can be given. It is required that attendees are present for the entire training in order to receive any continuing education credit.

Illuminated Education is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Illuminated Education maintains the responsibility for this program and its content.

The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts APA approval for CE activities for MFTs, LCSWs, LPPCs and/or LEPs.

If you are licensed outside of California: Because each state’s licensing regulations differ and are subject to change, it is the license holders responsibility to determine if your licensing board accepts APA approval for continuing education activities contact: Dr. Chris Cooper, proprietor of Illuminated Education at 626.744.9472 or cdcooperphd@earthlink.net (Please reference “DBT TRAINING 2017” in subject line).

REFUNDS / CANCELLATION
To withdraw from this course or cancel your registration, your request must be received (by letter, FAX, email or phone call at least 14 days prior to the day of the course. A full refund will be issued IF we can find a replacement registrant before the beginning of the course. If a replacement cannot be found a refund of 50% of your registration fee will be made or you may be able to transfer a portion of your registration fee to another upcoming course. If you cannot attend because of illness or emergency and are unable to notify us 14 days prior to the course date, you may be able to transfer your registration fee to an upcoming course. Please call Dr. Cooper (626-744-9472) at Illuminated Education or Angela Lopez (626-585-8075) at the Institute for Girls’ Development for information about this option.

LODGING
Lodging is not included in the fee for this workshop, however there are many hotels in the area. We will send you detailed information about hotel accommodations upon request (Angela Lopez, 626-585-8075 or alopez@instituteforgirlsdevelopment.com)

ACCOMMODATIONS AND SPECIAL REQUESTS
The meeting location is wheel-chair accessible. Breakfast, lunch and snacks will include vegetarian and gluten-free options. If you have other needs or further questions, please contact Dr. Chris Cooper (Illuminated Education) by phone (626-744-9472), FAX (626-585-0440), or email (cdcooperphd@earthlink.net ). If emailing, please reference this program in the subject line.