DBT-Informed Therapy: Foundations (Podcast Version)

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 This course aims to increase knowledge and skill to apply a Dialectical Behavior Therapy-informed approach to client care. This course uses a selection of learning tools such as expert discussion and explanation, role plays, and knowledge checks. After finishing this course, you should be able to explain the difference between a DBT-informed approach and how it contrasts with implementing a full DBT approach, describe an accurate therapeutic DBT-informed paradigm shift that informs the practitioner’s perspective on clients’ symptoms and presentation, evaluate the DBT model as it pertains to client assessment and orientation, including setting client expectations and maintaining them, treatment contracts, and setting client priorities in individual client sessions, and define four skills that can be imparted to clients in building their DBT toolkits over time and in an individual format. The course also includes supplementary tools like printable resources and short videos for you and your clients. 

• Estimated Course Length:  2 hrs. and 41 mins.
• CE Credits:  2.50 continuing education/contact hours for psychologists and social workers / 2.25 continuing education hours for counselors and marriage and family therapists.
• Course Includes: 4 modules consisting of a mixed media approach with roleplays, video interviews with subject matter experts, and knowledge checks
• Videos:  5 videos to highlight key concepts or share with clients to enhance learning
• Supplementary PDFs: 12 downloadable PDFs expanding on relevant course topics
• Target Audience: Mental Health Practitioners, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Psychologists, Mental Healthcare Students
• Level of Instruction: Intermediate
• Prerequisite: None
• Instructional Method: Self-paced, interactive, hybrid of audio, text, video, and knowledge checks 
• Accessibility Accommodations: Closed captioning of all audio and video components. In order to request further accessibility accommodations, please email support@psychhub.com.

Course Objectives

What the learner should be able to describe and employ upon course completion:

1. Explain the difference between a DBT-informed approach and how it contrasts with implementing a full DBT approach. 

2. Describe an accurate therapeutic DBT-informed paradigm shift that informs the practitioner’s perspective on clients’ symptoms and presentation.

3. Evaluate the DBT model as it pertains to client assessment and orientation, including setting client expectations and maintaining them, treatment contracts, and setting client priorities in individual client sessions. 

4. Define four skills that can be imparted to clients in building their DBT toolkits over time and in an individual format. The definition should include an explanation of why, when, and how to use skills in the four DBT modules of mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.

TIMED COURSE OUTLINE

Since the course is interactive and each learner will proceed at their own pace, timing is not exact. These are approximations based on average pre/post-test time of pilot testers as well as the run-time of course videos. This course does not have to be completed in one session. 

COURSE ACTIVITIES FOR CE CREDIT (≥ 2 HOURS 09 MINUTES)

PRE-COURSE ASSESSMENT: (~5 minutes) [EXCLUDED FROM ACTIVITIES FOR NBCC & CAMFT CREDIT]

INTRODUCTION: (~1 minute)

MODULE 1: INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT OF DIALECTICAL BEHAVIORAL THERAPY (~25 minutes)

The basics of the Dialectical Behavioral Therapy model, the DBT-informed approach, and how it informs the practitioner's perspectives on clients' symptoms and presentation.

MODULE 2: PRE-TREATMENT: CLIENT ASSESSMENT AND ORIENTATION (~15 minutes)

How to assess and orient a client to DBT-informed care, including setting expectations and treatment contracts. 

MODULE 3: INDIVIDUAL CLIENT SESSIONS (~20 minutes)

Structuring individual client sessions using diary cards, behavior chain analysis, solution analysis, reinforcement, and how to mitigate common barriers and challenges.

MODULE 4: SKILLS TRAINING (~1 hour & 3 minutes)

Overview and demonstration of skills that clients can learn and add to their DBT toolkits, including why, when, and how to use skills in the four DBT modules of mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.

POST-COURSE ASSESSMENT (~10 minutes) [EXCLUDED FROM ACTIVITIES FOR NBCC & CAMFT CREDIT]

COURSE ACTIVITIES NOT FOR CE CREDIT

PARTICIPANT EVALUATION (~10 minutes)

(OPTIONAL) Supplementary Videos for Learner and Learner’s Clients