What Is Trauma-Focused DBT?
United States Department of Homeland Security
Key Points
- DBT skills stabilize attentional, behavioral, emotional, cognitive, and relational dysregulations.
- Useful skill sets are mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, dialectical thinking, and interpersonal effectiveness.
- DBT skills alone won’t eliminate intrusive symptoms; they require trauma processing.
- Models to process trauma range from top-down to bottom-up.
- Be trained in at least one model of trauma processing that is mostly top-down and at least one that is mostly bottom-up.
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DBT for Trauma Online Training
Learn how to support clients struggling with trauma and complex trauma without reliance on traditional exposure methods.
Earn 9.25 CE Credits$297