Description:
OPD Points: 10
Key Learning Objectives / Outcomes:
Course Outline – Total video hours are seven and if art work is done the time of each session will be extended.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Session 1
Introduction – Biosocial Theory of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), DSM IV, V. Description of DBT, Australian and USA Statistics.
Session 2
Five functions of Treatment, 2015 New DBT Training Manual, Standards and Modes of Treatment, Researched Model of DBT description – Adults and Adolescents. The Four Modules of DBT, Assumptions in DBT
Session 3
The Styles of DBT, Validation, Dialectics, Encouragement, Genuineness, Irreverent Communication
Session 4
Pre-Treatment Stage, Client/Therapist agreements, Hierarchy of Targets, Hitting and Impass. Primary and Secondary Targets of DBT
Session 5
Individual DBT Therapy, session structure and timing, crisis intervention, risk factors for suicide, phone coaching, how to handle calls when your client is lonely, treating wilfulness when it shows up, Diary Card, Chain Analysis, Environmental intervention. Discussion of Adult and Adolescent Training Manuals
SKILLS
Session 6
Wise Mind Skill of DBT, The Brain and Emotions
Session 7
Mindfulness
Session 8
TIPP, Wise Mind Accepts – Distraction, Self-soothe
Session 9
STOP, Improve the Moment
Session 10
Checking the Facts, Reality/Radical Acceptance
Session 11
Emotional Regulation – Model of Emotions, Opposite Action,
Session 12
Validate your Vulnerabilities, Know your Triggers, Primary and Secondary Emotions, Mindfulness to current emotions, Managing extreme emotions.
Session 13
Chemistry, Labelling emotions, Reducing Vulnerability, Building relationships and ending destructive relationships, Increase positive emotions, Coping Ahead, Decrease emotional suffering
Session 14
Interpersonal Effectiveness – Goals, DEAR MAN GIVE FAST, Factors reducing Interpersonal Effectiveness
Session 15
Skills Training GroupSession 16Walking the Middle Path, exclusion criteria, Implementing DBT into a System, DBT Consultation Team Agreements, Structure of a Consult Team
Resources:
Evaluation
Assessment:
Presenter / Provider:
Megan Shiell
Presenter Qualifications:
Megan has completed a Graduate Diploma in Expressive Therapies and a Masters of Art Therapy in 2005. Megan has been comprehensively trained by Prof. Marsha Linehan’s trainers in DBT in 2008. Megan is a Level 4 Counsellor with ACA.
Megan is the founder of Expressive Therapy Clinic. She has trained over 2000 clinicians in DBT over the past 17 years. Megan has worked for private and public health prior to 2012 when she began her private practice and began training other clinicians in DBT. Megan has coordinated many DBT programs, both the comprehensive model and variations to the DBT model around Australia and New Zealand over the past 17 years. She has extensive experience in assisting clients in the skills of DBT and has worked alongside skills training groups as participant’s individual DBT therapist. Megan has adapted Art Psychotherapy and creative exercises to the many DBT programs she has designed for Expressive Therapy Clinic. She conducts two-day intensive training in live webinars monthly. Megan has also developed four programs using DBT and art making for a variety of client groups that are self-paced trainings.
Registration Instructions:
Go to www.expressivetherapyclinic.com.au go to home page, go to ‘online courses’, go to ‘self paced’ courses, go to DBT intensive 16 sessions training and complete registration form.
