Seminar Detail
2-Day Conference: Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) - Skills Training AND Advanced Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Where:
- TAMPA, FL
- When:
- Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - Wednesday, November 20, 2013
This event is not currently available for purchase.
For more information: Call (800) 844-8260
Course Description:
Day 1:
Clinicians across the country are using Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to treat individuals with a wide range of mental health disorders, including Borderline Personality Disorder, addictions, and eating disorders.
This seminar is designed to give you the DBT skills needed to start you on the way in more effectively treating your clients. Join Dr. Callahan and learn the 5 modes and functions of DBT treatment, the 4 modules of DBT Skills: diary cards for individual and group sessions, and how to format and structure a DBT Skills Group. Connie is a highly skilled and experienced DBT trainer who has trained thousands of clinicians across the country. She has the unique ability to translate the most challenging concepts from DBT to simple practical terms so you are ready to use these skills immediately with your clients.
Day 2:
Take your current knowledge of DBT to the next level. This training will help you focus on individual DBT techniques, specifically the behavioral chain analysis. Many DBT clinicians agree that the individual mode of DBT is the most difficult mode to implement. This training will help you add another tool to your DBT tool belt and increase your confidence while delivering this comprehensive model.
Come ready to engage in this highly interactive seminar. National expert and speaker Connie Callahan will use case examples, recordings of actual sessions, role-plays and an up-beat, high energy and down-to-earth presentation to teach these advanced topics. Connie has the unique ability to translate the most challenging concepts from DBT to simple practical terms, so you are ready to use these skills the next day with your clients.
Day 1:
Clinicians across the country are using Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to treat individuals with a wide range of mental health disorders, including Borderline Personality Disorder, addictions, and eating disorders.
This seminar is designed to give you the DBT skills needed to start you on the way in more effectively treating your clients. Join Dr. Callahan and learn the 5 modes and functions of DBT treatment, the 4 modules of DBT Skills: diary cards for individual and group sessions, and how to format and structure a DBT Skills Group. Connie is a highly skilled and experienced DBT trainer who has trained thousands of clinicians across the country. She has the unique ability to translate the most challenging concepts from DBT to simple practical terms so you are ready to use these skills immediately with your clients.
Day 2:
Take your current knowledge of DBT to the next level. This training will help you focus on individual DBT techniques, specifically the behavioral chain analysis. Many DBT clinicians agree that the individual mode of DBT is the most difficult mode to implement. This training will help you add another tool to your DBT tool belt and increase your confidence while delivering this comprehensive model.
Come ready to engage in this highly interactive seminar. National expert and speaker Connie Callahan will use case examples, recordings of actual sessions, role-plays and an up-beat, high energy and down-to-earth presentation to teach these advanced topics. Connie has the unique ability to translate the most challenging concepts from DBT to simple practical terms, so you are ready to use these skills the next day with your clients.
11/19/13
Day 1: Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) - Skills Training
11/20/13
Day 2: Advanced Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Objectives:
Day 2:
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Day 1:
- Explain the Biosocial Theory of Borderline Personality Disorder.
- Identify the 5 Modes and Functions of DBT Treatment.
- Utilize the Stages of Treatment in DBT.
- Review a diary card in both individual and group sessions.
- Format and structure a DBT Skills Group.
- Identify the 4 Modules of DBT Skills Training: Core Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Interpersonal Effectiveness and Emotion Regulation.
Day 2:
- Implement the dialectical strategies used in DBT.
- Identify communication strategies used in DBT.
- Implement a behavioral chain analysis on specific target behaviors.
- Implement six levels of validation.
- Structure an individual session based on stage 1 target behavior.
- Examine the use of diary cards to reinforce use of skills.
CONNIE CALLAHAN, PHD
Connie Callahan, Ph.D., LPCC, LMFT, is a licensed professional clinical counselor and a licensed marriage and family therapist in Lexington, Kentucky. As a practitioner, she has used DBT and provided professional training since the mid-1990's. She is a full professor and chair at Eastern Kentucky University in the Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology and has taught over 50 different psychology and counseling courses in the last 30 years. She lectures nationally on a variety of topics and regularly publishes in counseling, psychology and education journals. Dr. Callahan is the author of the best selling book Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Children and Adolescents.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Connie Callahan maintains a private practice. She is a professor at Eastern Kentucky University. Dr. Callahan receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Connie Callahan is a member of the American Counseling Association.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Connie Callahan maintains a private practice. She is a professor at Eastern Kentucky University. Dr. Callahan receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Connie Callahan is a member of the American Counseling Association.
Credits listed below are for full attendance at the live event only. After attendance has been verified, pre-registered attendees will receive an email from PESI Customer Service with the subject line, “Evaluation and Certificate” within one week. This email will contain a link to complete the seminar evaluation and allow attendees to print, email or download a certificate of completion if in full attendance. For those in partial attendance (arrived late or left early), a letter of attendance is available through that link and an adjusted certificate of completion reflecting partial credit will be issued within 30 days (if your board allows). Please see “live seminar schedule” for full attendance start and end times. NOTE: Boards do not allow credit for breaks or lunch.
If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, or questions on home study credit availability, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.
Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of mental health professionals. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.
The planning committee and staff who controlled the content of this activity have no relevant financial relationships to disclose. For speaker disclosures, please see speaker bios.
PESI, Inc. offers continuing education programs and products under the brand names PESI, PESI Healthcare, PESI Kids, PESI Rehab and Psychotherapy Networker.
If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, or questions on home study credit availability, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.
Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of mental health professionals. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.
The planning committee and staff who controlled the content of this activity have no relevant financial relationships to disclose. For speaker disclosures, please see speaker bios.
PESI, Inc. offers continuing education programs and products under the brand names PESI, PESI Healthcare, PESI Kids, PESI Rehab and Psychotherapy Networker.
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Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to PESI Rehab, P.O. Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000 or call (800) 844-8260.
ADA Needs
We would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please call our Customer Service Department for more information at (800) 844-8260.
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