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Dialectical Behavior Therapy: For Clients by Stephanie Vaughn

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Designed in the early 1990s, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) gives hope and confidence to clinicians and clients alike. DBT was originally used to treat chronic suicidal individuals. However, clinicians across the country are using DBT to help treat individuals with a wide range of mental illnesses including but not limited to Borderline Personality Disorder, eating disorders, and addictions.
This 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. You will also have a solid foundation in DBT through training. Speaker Dr. Stephanie Vaughn will help you demystify topics related to DBT and borderline personality disorder.
Known as a third-wave therapy, DBT moves away from the strict change strategies found in traditional treatments. In DBT, the therapist and the client balance these traditional change strategies with acceptance and mindfulness. It’s the constant back and forth movement between acceptance and change that makes DBT unique.

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

Modes and Functions 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

Stages and Targets of DBT — Structuring the Treatment

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

The 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

DBT Skills Training

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

Core Mindfulness 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 Effectiveness 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

Emotion Regulation Skills

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”

Please Note: PESI is not affiliated or associated with Marsha M. Linehan, PhD, ABPP, or her organizations.

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