DBT ESSENTIALS

DBT training from one of Canada's leading providers of intensive short courses.

Course content for the DBT Essentials course:

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A 3-day course for 6-16 people.
Download printable Microsoft Word information Sheet

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Background:

DBT brought together a series of skills and techniques which are powerful and well chosen ones, for working with personality disorder as well as in other areas. Many people want to familiarize themselves with these skills without necessarily becoming a DBT therapist, and this course is for you if you are one of those people. It covers the key areas of: validation; core mindfulness skills; skills of regulating one's emotions; distress-tolerance skills and more.

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In 3 days you will cover a great deal:

•  Why validation is so important, both theoretically and practically.

•  The 4 methods for validating, and exercises in validation.

•  How to validate genuinely and not simply as a 'technique'.

•  A definition, description, and brief history of mindfulness.

•  More mindfulness techniques: experiential exercise.

•  Core mindfulness techniques: conveying them to others.

•  Identifying and labelling emotions, including their triggers and biological concomitants, the behavioral response and after effects.

•  Obstacles to changing emotions, identifying what they are and removing or altering them.
   Biological factors that reduce vulnerability to 'emotional hijack'.

•  Behavioral alterations that change the balance of positive and emotional consequences.

•  Mindfulness-based interventions to tolerate an emotion without feeling bad about it and
   therefore making it worse.

•  Enacting behavior that contradicts the emotion, while still being aware of the negative
   emotion in question.

•  Distress tolerance skills: the importance of recognising that distress is part of life and
   therefore needs to be tolerated.

•  The acceptance of oneself, the situation, your emotions and thoughts and behavior
   patterns. Understanding that accepting something does not mean approving of it.

•  Crisis survival strategies: distraction, self-soothing, improving the moment and thinking of
   pros and cons.

•  Radical acceptance, less radical acceptance, and willingness versus willfulness.

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What this course will do for you:

The aim of this course is to teach you the major tools that are covered in DBT so that you can build them into your own repertoire and use them when you feel appropriate. In particular you will know why validation is so important and powerful and be able to do it well; you will have a grasp of core mindfulness skills in a way that you can convey them to others; you will understand about emotional regulation and be able to increase a patient's skills in regulating their own emotions; and you will understand the power of distress-tolerance and be able to help people tolerate inevitable distress.

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Who should attend:

This course is designed for professionals who (a) see patients in 1:1 treatment settings and (b) already have a significant degree of clinical skill.

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Download printable Microsoft Word information Sheet

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A 3-day course for 6-16 people.
We bring the training to you for an all-inclusive fee of $7,795 plus GST/HST.



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“A fantastic 3 days – the course was delivered at an excellent pace with a good balance of teaching, role play and student participants. The tutor was fab – really enjoyed it.”

Kerrie Garnham, Self-harm Nurse Practitioner

“The course was just what I wanted, needed and expected. Pleased to have been able to dispel some of the mystique and confusion about this therapy. I now feel familiar and comfortable and am very keen to start consciously using it. Many thanks.”

Rachel Bishop, Primary Mental Health Worker

“I thoroughly enjoyed the course and feel that I learned a great deal. I am sure it will be very helpful in my day to day practice. Some of the content is very similar to aspects we already use and it was refreshing and assuring that we are ‘on the right track’ (metaphor!!!)”

Carol Pearson, Social Worker

“An enjoyable 3 days of participation on this relevant course. I felt enthused and supported in learning and indeed revisiting skills I already had.”

Jennie Newman, Social Care CAMHS

“Really well presented course - lots of ideas to use in therapeutic practice and lots of validation.”

Sue Kime, Social Worker

“Brilliant course, will take away many of the ideas and integrate in my own practice. As usual Paul was an excellent trainer.”

Pat Mills, Social Worker

“I thought this course was extremely well presented and the key ideas were common throughout. I found Day 3 the most effective – especially looking at the skills book. I will use all the skills throughout my practice.”

Emily King, Social Worker

“I felt the course was relevant to my workload. I realized I do use some elements already but not by this name! I am very interested in going to learn more about mindfulness and have a couple of patients in mind who would benefit from this overall approach.”

Delphine Martinsen, Social Worker


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