Dialectical Behavioral Therapy - An Introduction
December 3-4 2025, 8:30AM-4:30PM (MUST ATTEND BOTH DAYS)
Tri-County Board Administration & Training Center
1280 N. County Road 25A, Troy
13 CEUs available
The Tri-County Board of Recovery and Mental Health Services has been approved as a provider of Continuing Education Units (CEUs) by the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage & Family Therapist Board #RCST072501
Tri-County Board Administration & Training Center
1280 N. County Road 25A, Troy
13 CEUs available
The Tri-County Board of Recovery and Mental Health Services has been approved as a provider of Continuing Education Units (CEUs) by the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage & Family Therapist Board #RCST072501
This two-day workshop is an introduction to the Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) model of treatment, with an emphasis on experiential learning of some of the skills that are taught to clients in DBT. DBT is the empirically-supported treatment developed by Marsha Linehan, PhD, ABPP, to treat clients with borderline personality disorder (BPD), emotion dysregulation, suicidality and self-harm, and/or interpersonal difficulties. The primary target audience for the workshop are mental health clinicians who are interested in learning about DBT, or for those familiar with the treatment, getting a refresher on the DBT model and skills and learning some of the new skills.
The 2-day workshop is introductory and is just one component of the training needed to develop full competence to provide DBT treatment. Although clinicians cannot claim to be intensively trained DBT clinicians following this workshop, the workshop can provide clinicians understanding of who might benefit from DBT, how to prepare a client for participation in DBT, and basic DBT approaches, strategies, and skills to use in DBT-informed sessions.
The focus of this workshop is on DBT strategies as applied to adults, though participants will likely be able to generalize the material to adolescents.
OBJECTIVES
1. List the five functions of a comprehensive treatment and the modes of DBT that meet each function
2. List the three main components of the biosocial theory of borderline personality disorder
3. Define and articulate at least one example each of mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, distress tolerance, and emotion regulation skills.
4. List and describe three of the dialectical dilemmas/secondary targets of DBT.
5. Explain how to use at least one commitment strategy to increase clients’ commitment to treatment.
6. Articulate the five critical components of a behavioral chain analysis.
7. Define validation and at least two different levels of validation.
The 2-day workshop is introductory and is just one component of the training needed to develop full competence to provide DBT treatment. Although clinicians cannot claim to be intensively trained DBT clinicians following this workshop, the workshop can provide clinicians understanding of who might benefit from DBT, how to prepare a client for participation in DBT, and basic DBT approaches, strategies, and skills to use in DBT-informed sessions.
The focus of this workshop is on DBT strategies as applied to adults, though participants will likely be able to generalize the material to adolescents.
OBJECTIVES
1. List the five functions of a comprehensive treatment and the modes of DBT that meet each function
2. List the three main components of the biosocial theory of borderline personality disorder
3. Define and articulate at least one example each of mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, distress tolerance, and emotion regulation skills.
4. List and describe three of the dialectical dilemmas/secondary targets of DBT.
5. Explain how to use at least one commitment strategy to increase clients’ commitment to treatment.
6. Articulate the five critical components of a behavioral chain analysis.
7. Define validation and at least two different levels of validation.
