Description

DBT is the standard of care for borderline personality disorder in most state public systems. Through both practice and research, the methodology of DBT has been found to be more robust. When DBT is applicable, acuity is what defines it. Private and public practice clients are the most difficult to treat. Join Lane Pederson, Psy.D., clinician and founder of Dialectical Behavior Therapy National Certification and Accreditation Association, and take home practical skills inDeploying DBT to your most difficult-to-treat clients. Learn how to do it.

• Affirm even the most self-destructive beliefs.
• In the face of overwhelming emotions, implement strategies for inertia and resistance.
• Accepting change and balance it with acceptance.
• Strengths are encouraged while weaknesses are respected.
• As opportunities for change, deal with transference issues.
• Do you want to prevent therapeutic drift?
• Therapeutic gains can be generalized by keeping behaviorally focused.
• The client and therapist have different strategies.

The treatment of this evidence-based therapy has advanced.

• Anxiety
• Control.
• Addictions
• There are personality disorders.
• There are eating disorders.
• There are complex co-morbid conditions.