Stephanie Vaughn – Dialectical Behavior Therapy: For Clients

DBT gives hope and confidence to clinicians and clients alike. It was once used to treat chronic suicidal individuals. DBT can be used to treat a wide range of mental illnesses including but not limited to eating disorders and addictions. It’s not like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it The seminar recording is designed to help you understand why DBT is so effective with your clients and how it works with borderline personality disorder and other mental health disorders. Through training, you will have a solid foundation. The speaker will help demystify topics related to borderline personality disorder. It’s not like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it Third-wave therapy, also known as DBT, moves away from the strict change strategies found in traditional treatments. The therapist and the client balance traditional change strategies with acceptance. DBT is unique because of the constant back and forth movement between acceptance and change.

1. Articulate the theories of DBT and their importance.
2. Assess the 5 Modes and Functions of DBT Treatment.
3. Utilize the Stages of Treatment in DBT in your practice.
4. Utilize a variety of DBT skills for treating mental health symptoms, chemical dependency and complex co-morbidity.
5. Teach DBT skills in the areas of Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotional Regulation and Interpersonal Effectiveness.
6. Articulate a variety of strategies for teaching DBT skills to clients.

There is an overview of DBT.

• Why Dialectics and what does that mean anyway?
• Common “Dialectical Dilemmas” of clients with Borderline Personality Disorder
• Borderline Personality Disorder Defined and Re-Defined
• Biosocial Theory of Borderline Personality Disorder… Etiology and why we need to know it
• Engendering compassion and empathy for this “difficult-to-treat” population
• Current research on DBT and why it is important to know it

Functions and modes of DBT.

• Individual Therapy — enhancing motivation
• Telephone Consultation — enhancing generalization
• DBT Consultation Group — enhancing motivation & skill of the therapist
• Skills Training — enhancing capabilities
• Ancillary Treatments — structuring the environment

Structuring the treatment is the Stages and Targets of DBT.

• Pre-Treatment Stage: Orienting the client to treatment and getting commitment
• Stage 1 Target Behaviors: Decrease life-threatening, therapy interfering and quality of life interfering behaviors and increase DBT skills
• Stage 2 Target Behavior: Decrease posttraumatic stress responses
• Stage 3 Target Behavior: Increase self-respect and achieve individual goals
• Stage 4 Target Behavior: Increase joy, freedom and spiritual fulfillment
• Targeting Strategies…What to treat and when

There is a diary card.

• How to teach a client to fill out a diary card
• Review a diary card in an individual therapy session
• Where to look and what to treat on a diary card

Skills training with DBT.

• Demographics and structure of the DBT Skills Training Group
• Rules of DBT Skills Training Group
• Targets of DBT Skills Training Group
• Roles of facilitators

CoreMindfulness skills

• The “Core” Skills in DBT Skills Training
• Become more mindful of thoughts, feelings and urges and acting with intuition
• Decrease the amount of judgments clients make about themselves and others
• Participating and “throwing yourself in” (with a Wise Mind of course)

Distress tolerance skills

• Tolerate and survive a crisis (without making it worse)
• “Distract” themselves in their attempts to regulate their emotions
• Self-Soothing the five senses in times of a crisis
• “Radically Accepting” the crisis as it is and letting go of the struggle

Interpersonal skills.

• Skills to help clients make requests and say NO (and have it stick)
• Teaching clients how to improve and attend to relationships
• Self-Respect in the client and the respect others have for them

Skills for Emotion Regulation.

• Regulate or even change intense emotions
• Decrease emotional vulnerability in your client
• Decrease negative emotions and increase the positive (and staying mindful of them)
• “Building a Life Worth Living”

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