DBT Skills for Adolescents
20 hours | 20 CEs
This on-demand professional training program on DBT Skills for Adolescents is presented by Michele Galietta, PhD.
The DBT Skills Training program is an excellent means of training new team members and milieu/line staff and strengthening existing team members’ skills. This training program focuses on Skills Training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a comprehensive cognitive-behavioral treatment that is increasingly being used in a variety of health settings. Comprehensive DBT has been found to have great practical utility for the reduction of violence and self-harm. DBT Skills are an essential component of comprehensive DBT, and some evidence suggests that skills alone, with case management, may be efficacious for less acute individuals as well. The primary focus of this program will be the content and delivery of the skills component of DBT with an emphasis on relevant adaptations for forensic clients (e.g., substance abuse, skills for reducing violence & obsessional thinking).
Throughout the program, didactic presentations with relevant case examples will alternate with participant practice of DBT skills. This program will contain a discussion of strategies for successful implementation and interactive discussion with participants about the potential application of DBT Skills to their settings/populations. Participants will learn how to apply and teach the effective DBT skills of Core Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Distress Tolerance, and Emotion Regulation. Participants will also learn how to apply and teach the effective DBT skills of Core Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Distress Tolerance, and Emotion Regulation.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
- Describe the rationale for skills training & the skills component of DBT
- Demonstrate how to set up and run skills training groups & how to conduct homework review
- Describe how to use behavioral strategies to enhance participation in skills groups
- Describe Skills in the areas of Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and Emotion Regulation
- Describe strategies for successful implementation into specific settings/populations
- Describe the elements of Skills Coaching
- Describe the importance of behavioral rehearsal Skills Training Groups
- Describe didactics with relevant case examples
- Describe adaptations of DBT skills training for forensic populations, including approaches for addressing substance abuse, violence reduction, and obsessional thinking
- Describe methods for integrating case management with DBT skills training for less acute individuals
- Describe how to incorporate interactive discussions to promote application of DBT skills to diverse settings and populations
- Describe strategies for alternating didactic presentations with participant practice to optimize DBT skills acquisition
Intended Audience
This on-demand professional training program is intended for mental health and other allied professionals
Experience Level
This on-demand professional training program is appropriate for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level clinicians.
CE / CPD Credit
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Presented By
Michele Galietta, PhD
Dr. Michele Galietta is an Associate Professor of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York, where she served as Director of the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program from 2005-2013. Dr. Galietta is a researcher and clinician specializing in the training, adapta...
Curriculum
1. Introduction - Part 1
2. Introduction - Part 2
3. Orienting
4. Core Mindfulness Skills
5. Distress Tolerance - Part 1
6. Distress Tolerance - Part 2
7. Homework Review: Half Smile
8. Middle Path Skills
9. Emotional Regulation
10. Interpersonal Effectiveness
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Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT), SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0356 and the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0073. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6811. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CONCEPT Professional Training, #1480, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. CONCEPT Professional Training maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 11/22/23-11/22/26. Social workers completing this course receive (clinical or social work ethics) continuing education credits.