Using Dialectical Behavior Therapy in Schools and Mental Health Counseling
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Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a structured approach to helping clients learn to manage intense emotions and negotiate relationships. For these reasons, it is a natural fit for working with teens in school- and mental health-counseling. It can be used in individual and group settings, and there are many helpful resources available for its administration. This workshop provides an introduction to DBT and reviews its key principles. It offers ideas for immediate practical application with teens.
Key topics include:
- The key concepts of DBT
- Addressing problematic behaviors with DBT
- How DBT can be used in school counseling and other mental health settings
- Mindfulness Skills
- Distress tolerance skills
- Emotional regulation skills
- Relationship skills
- Getting teens engaged in treatment and ready to work on their skills
During the training, the following questions are addressed:
- How can DBT give us a new way of thinking about problematic behaviors from a needs and vulnerability perspective?
- With what needs and vulnerabilities do teens present and how can we best understand them?
- What is validation and how can it be used as a superpower in counseling?
- How is the idea of “wise mind” different from “emotional mind” and “reasonable mind”?
1) Explain key concepts of DBT skills.
2) Create a treatment plan for managing intense emotions and negotiating relationships.
3) Create interventions for distress tolerance.
4) Use validation with teens who present with challenging behaviors.
5) Explain barriers to effective treatment engagement.
Audience
This training is for professionals working with people who have problematic behaviors. Professionals who will benefit from this training include social workers, psychologists, clinical counselors, and interested paraprofessionals.
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Who's Presenting
Anette Birgersson
Anette Birgersson, is a licensed psychotherapist with over 20 years of experience working with children and adolescents with trauma, neuropsychiatric diagnoses, and harmful sexual behaviors. Anette is trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Prolonged Exposure, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, and Emotional Regulation Group Therapy. She is also a certified TF-CBT trainer. Anette is well-known in her home country of Sweden for developing culturally appropriate programming for treating youth who have sexually abused and young children. After almost two decades of work in this area, Anette opened her own company, Skills Clinic, which has led to her conducting training and supervision all over Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, and the United States. Anette is a NAPN Advisory Board member and sits on several committees for the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA: USA).