Training for DBT Therapists:
PUTTING THE “B” IN DBT:
MODERN BEHAVIOR THERAPY FOR DBT THERAPISTS
Two-day online interactive training with Armida R. Fruzzetti, Ph.D. & Aditi Vijay, Ph.D.
Time:
9:00am to 3:00pm U.S. Eastern Time each day (6am-1pm Pacific)
Place:
Online via Zoom
Dates in 2024:
June 7 & 8, 2024
Training cost: US $400.00 per person for individual registration.
Your confirmation is your paid registration and the Zoom link will be sent to you the week of the training.
A limited number of reduced rate registrations are available for student trainees working on DBT teams and individuals who could benefit from a reduced rate. Contact us for details.
Attendance: This training is limited to the first 23 people who register.
Register: Please complete the registration form linked from the red buttons.
Training Description:
Behavior therapy, is one of the foundational principles of Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Modern behavior therapy is at the core of all change (and some acceptance) strategies in DBT. The tenets of modern behavior therapy inform many DBT interventions including, but not limited to, the selection of treatment targets, implementation of behavior chains and solutions, and precise validation of emotions and behaviors. An incomplete understanding of behavior therapy makes it difficult to effectively implement DBT to adherence. Training in Behavior Therapy does not often focus on complex cases such as those treated with DBT.
This training will assume only a very basic background in behavior therapy and will provide detailed descriptions and clinically rich examples of behavioral assessment, stimulus control strategies, contingency management strategies, skill learning and generalization, and exposure and response prevention. The workshop will focus on how these strategies are used, with precision and in balance with acceptance strategies, in DBT sessions, DBT skill training, DBT skill coaching, and on DBT consultation teams. This will be an interactive training with opportunities for practice to expand and build your precision in how to use behavior therapy principles and practices, with flexibility and nuance, in your work as a DBT therapist.
Learning Objectives:
Based on the content of the workshop, participants will be able to:
• Describe the operant and classical approaches to learning
• Describe the principles of stimulus control, contingency management and exposure
• Analyze a given behavior to accurately identify what may be serving as a reinforce for that behavior
• Apply the principles of stimulus control, contingency management and exposure to case examples
• Demonstrate how to use key elements to enhance the effectiveness of contingency management
• Utilize learning strategies to enhance the effectiveness of validating responses
• Use blocking as part of contingency management and not as punishment
CE Hours
Application for social work and psychologist continuing education credits have been submitted. Please contact us for the status of social work and psychologist CE accreditation.
Presenters:
Dr. Armida Rubio Fruzzetti is a Research Fellow at the National Suicide Research Foundation/ University College Cork, Lead for supervision & implementation for the National DBT Training Team, Ireland. In addition she is a supervisor at the3East DBT Adolescent Outpatient Clinic at McLean Hospital and an instructor at Harvard Medical School. Armida has trained professionals throughout the United States, Europe, and the Middle East in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and in DBT with parents, couples and families. She has provided extensive clinical supervision in DBT in the U.S. and abroad and has worked in a variety of clinical settings utilizing DBT for adults and adolescents, pre-teens, and couples and families. In addition to her clinical work, she has conducted research on parent-child interactions and the development of emotion dysregulation. Armida is bilingual in English/Spanish and has worked within the Hispanic community with a focus on access to mental health care and higher education. Currently she is working on adapting DBT for use with teens that have Type 1 diabetes who struggle with suicidality and medical non-compliance and helping to adapt the NEA-BPD Family Connections program for parents of pre-teens.
Dr. Aditi Vijay is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in Dialectical Behavior Therapy and interventions with emerging adults. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Georgetown School of Medicine. Aditi has provided extensive training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy and consultation to DBT teams throughout the U.S. Her clinical and research interests focus on improving quality of life for adolescents and emerging adults with a focus on those who self-harm or experience chronic suicidal ideation and improving access to care for underserved populations. She also has considerable experience treating trauma-related problems and providing training and supervision in the effective treatment of trauma-related problems. Her current research focuses on clinical supervision and process and outcome research in Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Dr. Vijay is on the Board of Directors of the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder.
