DBT Training on Core Skills and Tools: Hands-On Guide
This activity is designed for: Psychologists, social workers, counselors, MFTs, physicians, and nurses.
Course: Intermediate to Advanced
Publication date: 09/09/2024
What Will You Learn in This Course?
- Introduce mindfulness practices in therapy with easy-to-apply exercises like body scan and breathing techniques.
- Learn and apply distress tolerance skills. Use techniques like the Safe Place exercise and radical acceptance metaphors.
- Promote psychological flexibility through dialectical thinking and cognitive strategies like TOM exercise.
- Enhance emotional regulation using the garden analogy, SEEDs skill, and effective problem-solving techniques.
- Improve interpersonal relationships with core communication skills like assertiveness and DEAR ADULT.
- Adapt the DBT framework for clients with BPD and complex trauma.
Online Training You Can Immediately Apply to Your Practice
Course Content
Sample Video:
All our sections are concise and clinically relevant; none of them lasts more than 12 minutes. That's our rule.
Meet Your Instructor: Kirby Reutter, Ph.D., DBTC, LMHC, MAC
Kirby Reutter, Ph.D., DBTC, LMHC, MAC, is a bilingual clinical psychologist who contracts with the United States Department of Homeland Security to provide treatment services for asylum seekers. Dr. Reutter is a TED speaker and the author of The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for PTSD: Practical Exercises for Overcoming Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Accreditation Information
This course is co-sponsored by Medical Academy, LLC, and Psychotherapy Academy. Medical Academy, LLC, is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Medical Academy, LLC, maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Psychotherapy Academy, #1851, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 4/7/2024–4/7/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 6 continuing education credits.
DBT Training on Core Skills and Tools: Hands-On Guide
Date of Release: Sep 12, 2024
Date of Expiration: Sep 12, 2027
Location: Online
At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:
1. Describe three exercises from each of the four skills modules of DBT: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
2. Analyze the impact of dialectical thinking and validation strategies on patient progress, focusing on balancing acceptance and change to improve therapeutic efficacy.
3. Identify ways to adapt the DBT framework to specific conditions such as borderline personality disorder and complex trauma.
Acknowledgment of Financial Commercial Support
No financial commercial support was received for this educational activity.
Acknowledgment of In-Kind Commercial Support
No in-kind commercial support was received for this educational activity.
Satisfactory Completion
Participants must complete the activity online during the valid credit period that is noted above. Follow these steps to earn your CE credits.
1- Watch each video self-directed and participate in the entire activity, as partial credit is unavailable.
2- Pass the post-test with a score of 75% or higher.
3- Complete the evaluation form.
4- Download the certificate.
If you are seeking continuing education credit for a specialty not listed above, it is your responsibility to contact your licensing/certification board to determine course eligibility for your licensing/certification requirement.
Relevant Financial Disclosures
None of the faculty, planners, and reviewers for this educational activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose during the last 24 months with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Contact Information
If you have questions regarding this enduring material activity, please contact us at [email protected].
These activities have been planned and implemented by Medical Academy, LLC, and Psychotherapy Academy.
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Course Interaction & System Requirements
This video based online course is self-paced/noninteractive. Course questions can be directed to Psychotherapy Academy by email: [email protected]
System Requirements
• Operating Systems: Windows XP or higher, MacOS 10.11 or higher, Android 4.0 or higher
• Internet browser: Google Chrome 49.0 or higher, Firefox 40.0 or higher, Safari 10.1 or higher, Edge 14.0 or higher
• Broadband internet connection: Any medium that is internet accessible
• Media viewing requirements: None
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