7 NBCC CE hours are available for licensed mental health providers.
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Participants will be able to...
- Explain the DBT model and its core components.
- Apply the DBT model to the treatment of BPD.
- Build a rationale for use of DBT with various populations.
- Illustrate the skill of mindfulness within the DBT model and assert an evidence base for its practice.
- Describe situations and scenarios that mindfulness is effective in managing.
- Encourage the teaching of mindfulness skills to clients through visual aids, metaphors, and exercises.
- Explain distress tolerance within the DBT model.
- Identify clinical situations that warrant use of distress tolerance skills.
- Describe the implementation of distress tolerance skills.
- Explore common emotions and common coping patterns.
- Discover dialectical methods of emotional regulation.
- Identify two ways that clinicians can support client emotional regulation.
- Develop awareness of the value of interpersonal effectiveness.
- Explore therapeutic tools and worksheets for clients.
- Reflect on one’s own professional skill at interpersonal effectiveness.
Course Materials
- Prerecorded Videos
- Presentations
- Handouts
- Quiz
- Feedback Survey
- Certificate of Completion*
*A passed quiz of at least 80% and a completed feedback survey required for certificate.