Description:
OPD Points: 10
This online sixteen session Intensive “Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Training” has been designed for self-paced learning and it is hoped that it will assist clinicians gain knowledge of how to work with DBT and how to work as individual therapists and as Group Facilitators using DBT. Information on how to set up a DBT program including Therapists Consult groups is also detailed in the online training. Optional creative exercises are added to the Skills section of the program as a variation to the structured cognitive learning of the skills. Many clients over the years have enjoyed this aspect of the learning and appreciate having a concrete original object that replicates the skill they have learnt to view at any time reminding them of the techniques that assist them.Participants will learn the theory and styles around DBT and also be able to see how to teach some of the DBT Skills in seven of the sessions.
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 CONTENTSSession 1Introduction – Biosocial Theory of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), DSM IV, V. Description of DBT, Australian and USA Statistics.Session 2Five 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 DBTSession 3The Styles of DBT, Validation, Dialectics, Encouragement, Genuineness, Irreverent CommunicationSession 4Pre-Treatment Stage, Client/Therapist agreements, Hierarchy of Targets, Hitting and Impass. Primary and Secondary Targets of DBTSession 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 ManualsSKILLSSession 6Wise Mind Skill of DBT, The Brain and EmotionsSession 7MindfulnessSession 8TIPP, Wise Mind Accepts – Distraction, Self-sootheSession 9STOP, Improve the MomentSession 10Checking the Facts, Reality/Radical AcceptanceSession 11Emotional Regulation – Model of Emotions, Opposite Action,Session 12Validate your Vulnerabilities, Know your Triggers, Primary and Secondary Emotions, Mindfulness to current emotions, Managing extreme emotions.Session 13Chemistry, Labelling emotions, Reducing Vulnerability, Building relationships and ending destructive relationships, Increase positive emotions, Coping Ahead, Decrease emotional sufferingSession 14Interpersonal Effectiveness – Goals, DEAR MAN GIVE FAST, Factors reducing Interpersonal EffectivenessSession 15Skills Training GroupSession 16Walking the Middle Path, exclusion criteria, Implementing DBT into a System, DBT Consultation Team Agreements, Structure of a Consult TeamResourcesEvaluation
Presenter / Provider:
Megan Shiell
Presenter Qualifications:
Megan Shiell is passionate about the way Dialectical Behaviour Therapy can assist sufferers of emotional dysregulation. Over the past 9 year she has trained over 1,500 clinicians in the use of DBT and also in the use of DBT alongside an experiential therapy Art Therapy. Megan has presented both in Australia, and Internationally on the subject of DBT and its uses in mental health arenas and has published her work in DBT and Art Therapy in the ANZATA Journal 2008. Megan has recently written a chapter in a book titled “DBT-Informed Art Therapy in Practice” edited by Susan M. Clark to be published later in 2020. Megan conducts some Face to Face intensive DBT training programs in Coolangatta, Qld and also trains clinicians for organizations in other regions of Australia. This online training replicates the 2 Day Face to Face Intensive DBT training Megan offers in Coolangatta Qld. Her passion is to train as many Clinicians as possible in how to assist their clients using DBT.This is why she has developed this 16-Session online course for clinicians to do at the own pace and to be able to refer back to this material whenever they wish. The training consists of 16 sessions of videos and a Workbook/Manual of 113 pages all sent online to registrants. An evaluation is required at the end of the training in order to receive a 'Certificate of Participation' for PD purposes.
