DBT-STEPS for Youth Training, Tuesday, April 23, 2024
What Is DBT Training? Dialectical behavioral therapy STEPS (DBT-STEPS) is a skills-based training program adults can teach to adolescents in a group settingover several weeks. This free training is open to any adult interested in learning DBT-STEPS skills needed to facilitate DBT-STEPS group learning sessions for adolescents in agencies, schools and other community groups. Our goals include:
• Growing a training network of community members who can teach youth the skills to manage distress before their emotions escalate to crisis levels.
• Teaching adults in Wake County a common “language” to use with one another, with youth, and to cue skills use. Adults will speak a common language when working with kids, and kids will hear and respond to the same language.
Thursday, March 7 or Tuesday, April 23, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Marsh Creek Community Center – 3050 North New Hope Road, Raleigh, NC 27604
Presenter: Melanie McCabe, PhD, LP, HSP
The training session and DBT-STEPS training manual are free and lunch will be provided.
Optimizing DBT for Autistic Adults - UNC TEACCH - Tuesday, April 16, 2024.
Many autistic adults experience mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, and difficulties with emotional awareness and regulation which may exacerbate problems in everyday life. This training is designed to support mental health providers in delivering an evidence-based intervention, Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training (DBT-ST), to autistic adults without co-occurring intellectual disability. Characteristics of autism and their implications for treatment will be discussed as well as recommendations for modifications to DBT-ST.
Objectives:
At the completion of training, participants will be able to:
List four learning styles of autistic people
Describe how autistic learning styles can be incorporated into treatment
Compare differences in traditional DBT groups and groups for autistic adults
List three or more ways DBT skills can be modified to be more effective for autistic clients
Target Audience:
This training is designed for mental health clinicians with prior training in DBT who are interested in learning more about autism and how to adapt their DBT practice to be more effective for autistic adults. No prior training in autism is required, though practitioners with expertise in autism are nevertheless encouraged to attend. Please note that this workshop will not cover the basics of DBT.
Presenters:
Training staff will include autism professionals who work for the TEACCH Autism Program in various regions throughout North Carolina and provide training and consultation to professionals around the world.
Meeting Dates & Times:
DATES & TIMES:
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (Eastern Time, USA)
The training sessions will NOT be recorded.
Location
Carolina Living and Learning Center (CLLC)
325 Russet Run
Pittsboro, NC 27312
DBT Fundamentals Online Training Nov. 5 & 11, 2022
The DBT Fundamentals Online Training: A Trans-Diagnostic Treatment for Emotion Dysregulation
Online registration and instructions at www.dbtfamilyskills.com/dbtfundamentalstraining2022
This 12 hour training provides an introduction to DBT for psychotherapists, educators & helping professionals. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a highly effective treatment developed by Marsha M. Linehan, PhD for multi-diagnostic, severely disordered individuals with pervasive emotion dysregulation. While originally developed for difficult-to-treat patients with borderline personality disorder, research has demonstrated that DBT is also effective for individuals with a variety of complex problems, such as eating disorders and substance abuse, where emotion dysregulation is often at the core of the client’s problems. DBT, with its dialectical framework, provides a behavioral systems approach also shown to benefit couples and families. DBT has been adapted for use in a variety of settings, including inpatient hospitals, schools, residential programs, and prisons, as well as outpatient clinics.
Janice Bainbridge, Melissa Miller, Kirk Mochrie and John Mader will be leading this online introductory DBT Fundamentals Training on Saturday, November 5th and Friday, November 11th.
We are especially pleased to introduce you to Dialectical Behavior Therapy from the unique vantage of four different DBT-LBC certified clinicians. We are committed to sharing the healing work that Marsha Linehan began nearly 40 years ago. Also, those of you who have attended previous DBT Intro trainings may find this a helpful refresher course. For students, those seeking a "Refresher,” and others, you are welcome to a reduced fee that could make this more affordable for you to participate.
This online format takes inspiration from "flip the classroom."
· Participants will receive handouts of the slides, links to supporting materials, such as articles, skills handouts/worksheets, DBT video presentations.
· Participants are asked to obtain at least one DBT book listed below.
· Each participant will submit at least one question about the content they read/viewed for the coming week's session.
· The focus of the online session will be to address, discuss, and participate in experiential exercises based on your questions. The hope is for active, not passive, learning. Everyone stays awake! Validation Level One! This introductory class was designed to help clinicians understand the potential application of DBT in your therapeutic skill set.
We hope that the weekly schedule will provide more of an opportunity to digest the material, as well as to access additional resources and practice exercises that we plan to share with you.
Benefits of the DBT Introductory Fundamentals Training
1. Gain understanding of these key DBT fundamentals: ● The Development of DBT into a Trans-Diagnostic Treatment for Emotion Dysregulation ● The Structure of DBT: Stages of Treatment and Target Hierarchy ● Understanding Emotion Dysregulation, the Biosocial Theory and the Transactional Model ● When and How to Use the Acceptance Strategies, featuring Validation ● The Behavioral Change Strategies, featuring Problem-Solving ● Overview of DBT Skills of Core Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and Distress Tolerance ● What is Dialectics and How to Use the Dialectical Strategies ● DBT Behavior Chain Analysis and Case Formulation (to identify factors controlling problem behaviors) ● Strategies for Adapting DBT to Unique Settings Using DBT Functions and Modes
2. This training meets one of the basic requirements (along with being on a DBT Team and providing the 5 Functions/Modes of comprehensive DBT) for therapists to be part of the TADBiT DBT Therapist Directory. For those of you who have been participant-observers in DBT Skills Group or in DBT Skillz for Therapists, this training provides a theoretical and practical foundation that complements your experiential learning.
3. Participants who complete all four sessions will earn a certificate of completion for the 12 hours of training. While past experience indicates that these hours can be applied to certain categories of continuing education for LCSWs, LMFTs, BCBAs and LPPs (however likely not for LCMHCs), participants assume responsibility to confirm this with their respective licensure boards.
Who Should Attend? This course is designed for mental health and other professionals (clergy, teachers, professors, nurses, physicians). Supporting self and others in developing skillful compassion increases effective emotional coping and well-being. Past attendees are invited to use this as a “refresher” course.
Location: Online. You will be sent the link to join.
Schedule: Saturday, November 5th and Friday, November 11th. 8:45am Orientation. Sessions run from 9am - 12:15pm and 1pm - 4:15pm.
Cost: General fee is $280 if paid one month in advance of start date. $330 thereafter.
Students, Refresher folks (those having completed previous TADBiT, BTech, TIC or UNC SSW 2 Day Training), and others requesting a Reduced fee: $180 if paid one month in advance of start date. $230 thereafter. Refund requests by email must be received one month before the start date.
Online registration and instructions at www.dbtfamilyskills.com/dbtfundamentalstraining2022
And coming in Early 2023 -- DBT Skills Overview with Janice Bainbridge
Interested in an overview of DBT skills? You are invited to join a 3-6 hour training session that will provide an overview of core mindfulness skills, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. We will review how skill groups are structured and how skills training fit into dialectical framework while integrated into full model DBT therapy. Additionally, we'll review how skills training alone may be utilized in treatment that is not full model DBT and how to decide if this is appropriate.
Highly Recommended Books: DBT® Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets, 2nd Edition, Marsha Linehan; Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. Marsha Linehan; DBT® Skills Training Manual: 2nd Edition, Marsha Linehan; Buildng a Life Worth Living, Marsha Linehan: Doing Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Kelly Koerner; DBT® Principles in Action: Acceptance, Change, and Dialectics, Charlie Swenson.
Instructors: Janice Bainbridge, Melissa Miller, Kirk Mochrie and John Mader
Janice Bainbridge, LCSW, has completed DBT Intensive training and is a DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™. She has been practicing DBT and teaching skills glasses for over 10 years and participates in a DBT consultation team. In her work at UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health where she is currently employed, she leads DBT skills groups for individuals experiencing serious mental health conditions and complex problems in areas related to social determinants of health.
Melissa Miller, PhD, is a Licensed Psychologist at CBT Durham. Dr. Miller has been providing DBT for nearly 15 years, is a DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™, and also enjoys providing psychoeducation to friends and family members with loved ones in DBT. Dr. Miller worked as an Attending Psychologist at Duke University Medical Center for a number of years, training students from various disciplines to provide DBT. As an avid crafter, Dr. Miller also enjoys making props and tools to creatively teach or represent DBT concepts.
Kirk Mochrie, PhD, obtained his doctoral degree in clinical psychology and currently works as an intake coordinator and staff clinician at the Triangle Area Psychology (TAP) Clinic and is a DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™. He has specialized training in DBT for individuals who experience significant emotion dysregulation and who engage in self-injury and suicidal behaviors as well as extensive training in working with individuals with Substance Use Disorders and Borderline Personality Disorder. Dr. Mochrie has numerous publications related to DBT and currently runs a DBT Adolescent group at the TAP clinic. He also provides therapy to individual DBT clients in the DBT-certified adult and adolescent programs at the TAP clinic.
John Mader, LMFT, has a private practice in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC as a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT) and DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™. He has completed DBT Intensive training and is a Co-Director of Triangle Area Dialectical Therapy (founded by Meggan Moorhead and Norma Safransky). He has taught DBT Skills Training Groups since 1997, DBT Family Skills Training since 2004, DBT Skills for Couples since 2008 and leads a DBT Consultation Team. His website, dbtfamilyskills.com, provides resources on using DBT skills in relationship.
TAP VALIDATION ONLINE WORKSHOP on May 16, 2020
VALIDATION WORKSHOP: INCREASING VALIDATION AND DECREASING INVALIDATION.
Triangle Area Psychology Clinic - tapclinicnc.com. This workshop will be offered online via Zoom.
Date: Saturday, May 16th, 2020. 10am — 1pm EST
Description: Validation is a skill that you can use to communicate understanding and to help someone to calm down. Learn the science of validation and invalidation, and learn practical skills to use to improve your relationships. The workshop is designed for professionals, learners, and/or clients and family members. The workshop is psycho-educational rather than a group or or therapeutic setting, so while clients and families are welcome to attend, this will not be a therapy service.
Workshop Cost: $100 (effective requests for lower fee welcomed)
Co-Leaders: Dr. Melissa Miller has extensive training in DBT and treating individuals with emotional and interpersonal dysregulation, as well as expertise in providing psychoeducation and skills training for their loved ones. Dr. Miller is amazingly skilled at teaching DBT concepts in a way that is both accessible and engaging.
Caitlin M. Fang, Ph.D. is a Clinical Associate at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Fang is expertly trained in CBT and DBT, as well as working with family members of loved ones with mental illness. Her research examines emotional processes, as well as developing, providing, and evaluating brief interventions to help with emotion regulation.
Jennifer L. Buchholz, M.A. is a Doctoral Candidate in Clinical Psychology at UNC, and she is a clinical extern at the TAP Clinic. She currently co-leads both adult DBT skills groups at the TAP Clinic.
Topics covered:
• Introduction and basic concepts
• Validation, invalidation, and emotional functioning
• Validation: step-by-step
• Building a validation vocabulary
• Research review: how these skills work
• Validation in tough situations
• Using genuine language
• Practice
• Q & A
Questions: Email Dr. Miller at miller@tapclinicnc.com . You can also find more information at www.tapclinicnc.com/validation-workshop
To register: Email info@tapclinicnc.com or call (919) 237-3321
Using DBT when Clients Interfere with Their Own Progress, March 4th, 2020, Fayetteville NC
Using DBT when Clients Interfere with Their Own Progress - Zach Rosenthal
Location
Southern Regional AHEC, 1601 Owen Dr, Fayetteville, North Carolina 28304
Dates and Times
March 04, 2020 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Available Credits
Contact Hours (category A) CE for NC Psychologists 6.00
CEU 0.60, Contact Hours 6.00
Event Fees
Early Bird Special $119.00
To Register
Check in
March 04, 2020 8:30 AM
The primary objective of this training is to help behavioral health clinicians respond with skill and confidence when clients/patients/consumers do things that inadvertently interfere with their own therapy progress. Common and frustrating behaviors that interfere with therapeutic progress occur across a wide range of adult outpatients and therapeutic approaches. Some of these therapy-interfering behaviors (TIBs) include avoidance during therapy, therapy no-shows, drop-outs, angry behavior toward the therapist, suicidal threats, sexually inappropriate behavior, homework non-compliance, and behaviors on the part of the therapist that might interfere with therapeutic progress. This training will help clinicians better manage TIBs by using a practical framework with principles and strategies from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT; Linehan, 1993). DBT is an evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy for borderline personality disorder (BPD) that emphasizes therapists using strategies to target and reduce TIBs. Strategies to manage TIBs in DBT are consistent with and can fit well within the general framework of many other psychotherapies. In addition, strategies within DBT used to reduce TIBs may be applied across a variety of clinical problems, not only to individuals meeting diagnostic criteria for BPD.
In this training attendees will learn how to use approaches from DBT to help reduce TIBs, without needing to be a DBT therapist, providing comprehensive DBT, or treating someone with BPD. Using didactics and experiential learning, this training will be designed to increase clinician skill and confidence responding to TIBs across a wide array of adults in outpatient settings, in order to reduce therapist burnout and enhance treatment outcomes.
Objectives
Participants will be able to define therapy-interfering behaviors from the perspective of a dialectical behavior therapy case conceptualization; and
Participants will be able to identify how to use several strategies from dialectical behavior therapy to respond with confidence and skill to therapy-interfering behaviors.
Speaker
M. Zachary Rosenthal, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Duke University Medical Center Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Duke University Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. He is Director of the Duke Cognitive Behavioral Research and Treatment Program (CBRTP) and the Sensory Processing and Emotion Regulation Program. He also is the Program Director for the Duke Clinical Psychology Fellowship Program, and Vice Chair for Clinical Services in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Rosenthal’s line of research has focused on characterizing problems with emotional functioning and emotion regulation in adult psychopathology in general and borderline personality disorder (BPD) specifically. While studying emotion regulation and BPD, Dr. Rosenthal became interested in understanding the role of sensory over-responsivity in adults, which has led in recent years to early studies designed to explore misophonia. In addition, his research aims to develop novel behavioral interventions that translate models of learning into mobile phone-based interventions for adults who are highly emotionally dysregulated and/or substance dependent. Dr. Rosenthal is a licensed psychologist in North Carolina with expertise in contemporary cognitive behavioral therapies (CBTs), and is an expert in the treatment of BPD using dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). He is active in clinical training for graduate students, Medical Psychology interns, post-docs, and community clinicians throughout North Carolina. He provides educational training to community mental health and substance abuse professionals through a partnership between Duke University, AHEC, and the North Carolina Evidence Based Practices Center. For fun, he spends evenings and weekends watching his two sons play ice hockey and wishing he knew how to skate like they do.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder? Feb. 8, 2020, Durham NC
This educational workshop will provide an overview of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), including general information, how BPD develops, how people can recover, and a summary of research. This workshop is ideal for the friends and family members of loved ones with BPD.
The website link is here: https://www.tapclinicnc.com/bpd-workshop
What is Borderline Personality Disorder: An Educational Workshop for Friends and Family Members.
Topics covered:
What is BPD? • Diagnostic criteria • Prevalence • Role of emotions How does BPD develop? • The biosocial theory • Reinforcement • How do people recover? • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) • Family/partner involvement • What do we know about BPD? • Research summary • Current research happening
Saturday, February 8th, 10-12
The TAP Clinic
Cost: $100 (effective requests for lower fee welcomed)
Melissa L. Miller, Ph.D. Licensed Psychologist
Triangle Area Psychology Clinic
5726 Fayetteville Rd. Suite 101
Durham, NC 27713
(919) 813-2884
https://artscenter.duke.edu/event/the-art-of-mental-health-exhibit/
TAP Validation Workshop, Dec. 7, 2019
Validation Workshop: Increasing Validation and Decreasing Invalidation.
Triangle Area Psychology Clinic, 5726 Fayetteville Road, Suite 101, Durham, NC 27713. tapclinicnc.com
Date: Saturday, December 7th, 2019. 9am—12pm
Description: Validation is a skill that you can use to communicate understanding and to help someone to calm down. Learn the science of validation and invalidation, and learn practical skills to use to improve your relationships.
The workshop is designed for professionals, learners, and/or clients and family members. The workshop is psycho-educational rather than a group or or therapeutic setting, so while clients and families are welcome to attend, this will not be a therapy service.
Workshop Cost: $200. Reduced fee available if cost is prohibitive.
Co-Leaders: Dr. Melissa Miller has extensive training in DBT and treating individuals with emotional and interpersonal dysregulation, as well as expertise in providing psychoeducation and skills training for their loved ones. Dr. Miller is amazingly skilled at teaching DBT concepts in a way that is both accessible and engaging.
Jennifer L. Buchholz, M.A. is a Doctoral Candidate in Clinical Psychology at UNC, and she is a clinical extern at the TAP Clinic. She currently co-leads both adult DBT skills groups at the TAP Clinic.
Topics covered:
• Introduction and basic concepts
• Validation, invalidation, and emotional functioning
• Validation: step-by-step
• Building a validation vocabulary
• Research review: how these skills work
• Validation in tough situations
• Using genuine language
• Practice
• Q & A
Questions: Email Dr. Miller at miller@tapclinicnc.com . You can also find more information on our website.
To register: Email info@tapclinicnc.com or call (919) 237-3321
Deep Dive into Nonjudgment, Oct. 25, 2019
Martha Golden and John Mader are leading a new workshop, Deep Dive into Nonjudgment, on Friday, October 25th from 9am to 4pm, at the beautiful sanctuary of Unity Center of Peace in Chapel Hill. A description and downloadable flyer can also be found at www.dbtfamilyskills.com/upcoming-classes
As we go deeper in our exploration of how judgment impacts our lives, we are looking forward to sharing some useful perspectives and skills to become more flexible and effective. Join us as we get curious about Nonjudgment. Learn how to regulate your emotions and increase your problem-solving capabilities through a nonjudgmental stance.
Learn how to become more effectively equipped to practice this transformative skill in daily living.
Learning Objectives for Deep Dive into Nonjudgment
Learning with our hearts and minds...
• what judgment is and what nonjudment is
• the advantages and disadvantages of judgment
• the advantages and disadvantages of nonjudgment
• why we want to practice nonjudgment
• the signs of judgmental thinking and communication
• the difference between evaluative and discriminative
judgments
• how to move from judgmental thinking to a nonjudgmental
stance
• to practice self-compassion to not judge your judging
Who Should Attend? We have designed this class for all who wish to meet their judging with greater skillfulness and compassion. There is a reduced fee for students/those requesting a scholarship.
To Register your place in Deep Dive into Nonjudgment, go to www.dbtfamilyskills.com/upcoming-classes using the Online Registration button. You will also find a link to print the flyer.
DBT 2 Day Fundamentals Training, May 4 & 18
DBT Fundamentals Training
A 2 Day Introduction to DBT for Psychotherapists,
Educators & Helping Professionals
Saturdays, May 4 and 18, 2019
Chapel Hill NC
Triangle Area DBT (TADBiT)
The DBT Fundamentals Training: a Trans-Diagnostic Treatment for Emotion Dysregulation
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a highly effective treatment developed by Marsha M. Linehan, PhD for multi-diagnostic, severely disordered individuals with pervasive emotion dysregulation. While originally developed for difficult-to-treat patients with borderline personality disorder, research has demonstrated that DBT is also effective for individuals with a variety of complex problems, such as eating disorders and substance abuse, where emotion dysregulation is often at the core of the client’s problems. DBT, with its dialectical framework, provides a behavioral systems approach also shown to benefit couples and families. DBT has been adapted for use in a variety of settings, including inpatient hospitals, schools, residential programs, and prisons, as well as outpatient clinics.
Benefits of the DBT Introductory Fundamentals Training
1. Gain understanding of these key DBT fundamentals: ● The Development of DBT into a Trans-Diagnostic Treatment for Emotion Dysregulation ● The Structure of DBT: Stages of Treatment and Target Hierarchy ● Understanding Emotion Dysregulation, the Biosocial Theory and the Transactional Model ● When and How to Use the Acceptance Strategies, featuring Validation ● The Behavioral Change Strategies, featuring Problem-Solving ● Overview of DBT Skills of Core Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and Distress Tolerance ● What is Dialectics and How to Use the Dialectical Strategies ● DBT Behavior Chain Analysis and Case Formulation (to identify factors controlling problem behaviors) ● Strategies for Adapting DBT to Unique Settings Using DBT Functions and Modes
2. This training meets one of the basic requirements (along with being on a DBT Team and providing the 5 Functions/Modes of comprehensive DBT) for therapists to be part of the TADBiT DBT Therapist Directory. For those of you who have been participant-observers in DBT Skills Group or in DBT Skillz for Therapists, this training provides a theoretical and practical foundation that complements your experiential learning.
3. Participants who complete both sessions will earn a certificate of completion for the 12 hours of training. While past experience indicates that these hours can be applied to certain categories of continuing education for LCSWs, LMFTs and LPPs, participants assume responsibility to confirm this with their respective licensure boards.
Who Should Attend? This course is designed for mental health and other professionals (clergy, teachers, professors, nurses, physicians). Supporting self and others in developing skillful compassion increases effective emotional coping and well-being. Past attendees are invited to use this as a “refresher” course.
Location: Unity Center of Peace in Chapel Hill, 8800 Seawell School Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Schedule: Saturdays, May 4 and 18, 2019, 8:30am registration, 9am – 4:30pm.
Cost: General fee is $280 if paid by April 4, 2019. $380 thereafter. Students, Refresher (those having had previous TADBiT, BTech or UNC SSW 2 Day Training, others requesting a reduced fee: $180 if paid by April 4, 2019. $280 thereafter. Cancellations and Refunds – Refund requests by email must be received one month before the start date. To complete your registration, please use the Online Registration at dbtfamilyskills.com/dbt-intro-training-for-professionals-and-educators and mail a check made to C.I.P. for the fee (before April 4th, $280. Students, Refresher, Scholarship, $180 if before April 4th) to: John Mader, 1506 East Franklin Street Suite 202, Chapel Hill NC 27514.
Highly Recommended Books: DBT® Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets, 2nd Edition, Marsha Linehan; Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. Marsha Linehan; DBT® Skills Training Manual: 2nd Edition, Marsha Linehan; Doing Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Kelly Koerner; DBT® Principles in Action: Acceptance, Change, and Dialectics, Charlie Swenson.
Instructors: Meggan Moorhead, Jeanette Sarbo, Martha Golden and John Mader
Martha Golden, PsyD, Licensed Psychologist, DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™ and Co-Director of Triangle Area DBT (TADBiT). Dr. Golden holds masters and doctorate degrees in Clinical Psychology. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at Duke University’s Counseling Center followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at TADBiT. Dr. Golden started her private practice in 2005 and has served as the Intake Coordinator for the DBT-U program (DBT for university students) since 2006. She works with people individually, co-leads DBT skills groups, participates on a DBT consultation team, supervises students working towards licensure, provides consultation, consulting, and trainings to organizations, businesses, and clinicians.
Meggan Moorhead, Ed.D. is a Founding Director of Triangle Area Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (TADBiT). She studied with Dr. Marsha Linehan and is an expert DBT therapist, consultant, supervisor and skills trainer. She participated in the first national Intensive Training (1993) and remained a trainer for Dr. Linehan's Seattle-based DBT training company called BTech. Locally she has been Clinical Faculty at the Department of Psychology at UNCCH and a Clinical Associate at Duke Hospital, serving as expert therapist in DBT research trials. Born and raised in Japan, in a Southern Baptist missionary family, she has loved the cultural sensitivity, the tender collaboration and mindfulness practices of this groundbreaking therapy.
Jeanette Sarbo, PhD, with degrees in clinical psychology and clinical social work, is an experienced DBT therapist, who continues to be deeply enthusiastic about the healing these skills bring. She began her DBT training in earnest in 1995, and has been co-leading DBT skills training groups for twenty years with Dr. Meggan Moorhead. She continues to feel gratitude that learning DBT skills has given so many clients a sense of mastery, competence, and freedom from overwhelming emotional pain. After a lifetime of distress, change is possible.
John Mader, LMFT has a private practice in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC as a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT) and DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™. He has completed DBT Intensive training and is a Co-Director of Triangle Area Dialectical Therapy (founded by Meggan Moorhead and Norma Safransky). He has taught DBT Skills Training Groups since 1997, DBT Family Skills Training since 2004, DBT Skills for Couples since 2008 and leads a DBT Consultation Team. His website, dbtfamilyskills.com, provides resources on using DBT skills in relationship.
Triangle Area Dialectical Behavior Therapy * triangleareadbt.com
4 Resources for Families, Couples and Friends. February-April 2019
Winter/Spring 2019 Schedule - DBT for Families, Couples and Friends
Introduction to DBT Skills for Families, Couples and Friends.
This training is suited for anyone who wants to learn key relationship skills of mindfulness, emotion regulation and interpersonal validation. Participants may register by completing the online registration form at www.dbtfamilyskills.com/upcoming-classes.html. A week before the class, I will send materials to do some preparation in advance for the training.
When and Where: Saturday, February 23rd, 8:45am-1pm at Unity Center of Peace, 8800 Seawell School Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27516 (to be confirmed).
2019 DBT Family Skills Training.
Over a series of four Saturday morning sessions, you will be introduced to the DBT Skills taught in DBT Skills Groups designed for these goals:To learn how to change your own behaviors, emotions and thoughts that are linked to problems in living and are causing misery and distress in your most important relationships. Perhaps you want to gain or increase your skills to help you with times you get judgmental, ongoing conflict in the family, becoming more flexible or more firm, regulating emotions or effectively responding to difficult emotions in others.
It is fine to attend 1, 2 or all 4 of the sessions in this series. View the course objectives here. www.dbtfamilyskills.com/dialectical-behavior-therapy-for-families.html
Who can benefit: Participants come to gain essential skills to support themselves and become more skillful with their emotionally sensitive loved ones, whether they be children, siblings, partners, friends or parents.
When and Where: Saturdays, 8:45am-1pm at Unity Center of Peace, 8800 Seawell School Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27516 (to be confirmed).
March 16, 2019 - Core Mindfulness for Increasing Family Balance and Effectiveness
March 30, 2019 - Interpersonal Effectiveness and the Benefits of Validating
April 13, 2019 - Emotion Regulation and Distress Tolerance (How to NOT Make Things Worse)
April 27, 2019 - The ABCs of Managing Relationship Problems
DBT Skills for Couples.
DBT Skills for Couples provides perspectives and strategies to more effectively cope with intense emotional patterns and disagreements, to communicate accurately and with validation, and to deepen the intimacy we desire in our most important relationships.
Where/When: Next series to begin February 2019. This 12-week series is held in the TADBiT Group Room, 200 W. Weaver St, Carrboro, NC on Tuesday evenings, 6:30-8:45pm. This course is typically offered two times during the year.
Learning Objectives: A description of the key learning objectives for each week of the DBT Skills for Couples at: www.dbtfamilyskills.com/dialectical-behavior-therapy-for-couples.html
And from Duke University Cognitive Behavioral Research and Treatment Program...
Through Thick and Thin
Through Thick and Thin, directed by Melissa Miller, provides 9 sessions of behavioral strategies (including DBT) supported by science to effectively relate to people who struggle with their emotions.
Where/When: Starts in February. There is also a day-long Validation Workshop on January 25th.
What is DBT? Workshop on February 12th or 26th.
Contact: Caitlin Fang at (919)-768-2627 or caitlin.fang@duke.edu
More information at sites.duke.edu/throughthickandthin/upcoming-workshops-and-classes/
Duke University "What is DBT?" Workshop for Family Members, Feb. 12 or 26
What is DBT? Workshop
Duke University Cognitive Behavioral Research and Treatment Program
Date: Tuesday, February 12 or 26, 2019 (two options for same workshop)
Description: A 2-hr workshop for family members that explains the biosocial theory, structure of DBT, strategies and components, and resources for additional information, skills, and support. More info will be available soon at More information at sites.duke.edu/throughthickandthin/upcoming-workshops-and-classes/
Contact: Megan Renna at megan.renna@duke.edu
Duke University Validation Workshop, Jan. 25, 2019
Validation Workshop
Duke University Cognitive Behavioral Research and Treatment Program
Date: Friday January 25th, 2019, 12-5:30pm
Description: Validation is a skill that you can use to communicate understanding and to help someone to calm down. Learn the science of validation and invalidation, and learn practical skills to use to improve your relationships.
Welcome
Introduction and basic concepts
Validation, invalidation, and emotional functioning
Validation: step-by-step
Building a validation vocabulary
Research review: how these skills work
Practice
Q&A
Break
Validation in tough situations
Using genuine language
Practice
Q&A
Recommended Cost: $100 per individual, $150 for two people registering together
Co-Leaders: Caitlin Fang, Ph.D., Kibby McMahon, M.A.
Contact: Caitlin Fang at (919)-768-2627 or caitlin.fang@duke.edu
Getting to the Heart of the Problem, Raleigh, Dec. 6-7, with Lorie Ritschel
Getting to the Heart of the Problem
This new 2 day B-Tech training led by Lorie Ritschel, Ph.D. on December 6 & 7 in Raleigh is designed for experienced individual psychotherapists with solid familiarity with DBT to help them define client problems and develop effective solutions with clarity and precision.
To Register, go to: behavioraltech.org/event/5142-getting-to-the-heart-of-the-problem-targeting-assessing-and-solving-problem-behaviors/
One of the difficulties in treating complex clients is deciding how to spend session time when the client presents with multiple problem behaviors in a given week. Determining treatment priorities in the midst of unrelenting client crises can feel overwhelming and confusing even to the most experienced therapist, and can lead to diminished motivation for clinician and client alike. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) helps address this common problem by using a treatment hierarchy to prioritize behaviors to target in session.
One function of targeting is to determine which behaviors need to be assessed and solved.
Chain analyses set the stage for understanding behavior and intervening with increased precision and efficiency.
A clear understanding of the options for solving problems, based on a well-formulated problem and clear assessment, can help clients and therapists experience success in treatment.
This helps avoid the problems that many experience of inefficient use of time and feeling stuck in therapy.
When done correctly, both you and your client will have a clear snapshot of the variables at work during a given behavior, highlight problematic behavioral patterns, and find new behaviors to put to work for your client.
This training is highly experiential and will include topics such as setting precise and appropriate treatment targets tailored to the patient’s clinical presentation, and conducting accurate chain and solution analyses. Instructors will utilize a combination of lecture, demonstration, and practice of DBT interventions. Participants will have multiple opportunities for hands-on practice throughout the workshop.
Charlotte DBT Training, Sept 21-22
We are happy to announce that TADBiT will be hosting its first Two-Day Workshop on DBT Foundations in Charlotte on September 21 & 22, 2018! Martha Golden and Eric Gadol will be leading the workshop, which is designed to equip therapists with the foundations for building DBT into your practice. Click here for information on the workshop and to buy tickets!
2-Day DBT Training in February 2018
Eric Gadol and Martha Golden will be offering a Triangle Area DBT (TADBiT) 2-day DBT training in February 2018 in the Triangle Area.
Below is the link for more information and to register. Workshop Participation Fee of $350 is due by Feb 16, 2018.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/t adbit-two-day-dbt-workshop-tic kets-36447519512
In this workshop, Drs. Golden and Gadol will present the foundational knowledge and skills of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Clients with borderline personality disorder have been known as a challenging population among mental health professionals for decades, and DBT was developed to treat this population. Since this beginning, DBT has been successfully delivered to many other populations, and more clients are benefiting from DBT treatment. Drs. Golden and Gadol will cover the empirical support for the DBT and the core principles of DBT treatment, covering the theoretical understandings of borderline personality disorder, the assumptions and agreements about therapy in DBT, the structure of DBT treatment, and the skills that clients learn in DBT. Participants will earn 12 hours of Category A continuing education credit approved by the American Psychological Association (additonal fee required for certification).
This workshop is intended for mental health professionals (psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, etc.) who have a beginner's level of experience with Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
Schedule: 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. on February 23 and 24, 2018
Learning Objectives:
- To be able to list and describe the empirical research on DBT, including populations researched and target behaviors that have responded to DBT interventions
- To describe Borderline Personality Disorder DSM-V criteria as organized by DBT theory, categorizing each criteria as a form of dysregulation
- To be able to list and describe the DBT assumptions about patients and therapy, demonstrating this ability through role plays with workshop participants
- To be able to articulate and explain bio-social theory, the transaction between emotional vulnerability and invalidation
- To be able to define validation and to offer examples of each of the six levels of validation
- To be able to describe the DBT skills modules, identifying their behavioral targets
- To be able to list and explain the functions and modes of DBT treatment
- To be able to generate a DBT treatment plan, including stages and targets, with a case example outlined and role-played by the presenters
- To be able to describe the rationale of why mindfulness is used in DBT and to lead clients in mindfulness practices
- To be able to list the behavioral principles, behavioral analysis strategies, and change strategies that are used in DBT, applying them to a case example role-played by the presenters.
- To be able to explain the use of dialectics in DBT, listing specific dialectical strategies and applying them to case examples described by the presenters.
Presenters:
Martha Golden, PsyD, Licensed Psychologist. Dr. Golden earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Argosy University at the Georgia School of Professional Psychology in Atlanta, Georgia in 2005. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at Duke University’s Counseling Center followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at Triangle Area Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. Dr. Golden began her private practice in 2005 and has served as the Intake Coordinator for the DBT-U program (DBT for university students) since 2006. She works with patients individually, co-leads DBT skills groups, participates in a DBT consultation team, and supervises students working towards licensure. Dr. Golden completed the Behavioral Tech Intensive Training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy in 2011, was appointed Co-Director of Triangle Area DBT (TADBiT) in 2013, and was certified by the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification in 2015.
Eric N. Gadol, PhD, Licensed Psychologist. Dr. Gadol earned his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2008 and entered private practice. He completed the Behavioral Tech Intensive Training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy in 2011. In addition to seeing clients in his solo private practice in Durham and leading a DBT skills group, Dr. Gadol provides training in DBT and co-leads two consultation/training team. He is the TADBiT Director of Skills Groups and Consultation Teams.
The program is co-sponsored by the North Carolina Psychological Association and Triangle Area DBT. The North Carolina Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The North Carolina Psychological Association maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This program is offered for (12) hours of continuing education credit.
ATTENDANCE POLICY - To receive credit, you must be present for the entire session, and you must sign the sign-in and sign-out sheets. No credit will be given to participants who are more than 15 minutes late at the beginning of any session. No credit will be given to participants who leave before the close of a session.
REFUND POLICY - If we receive a notice one month in advance that you will no longer be able to attend, or if we must cancel the workshop for any reason, we will refund your cost in full. Otherwise, we will not issue refunds.
CE CERTIFICATION - CE documents of attendance will be mailed directly by the NCPA within 20 business days from the time NCPA receives the materials from the host of the workshop/conference. If NCPA is not able to do this within the 20 business days (because of other activities/work), the NCPA will contact the presenters with the date the certification will be mailed.
Have questions about TADBiT Two-Day DBT Workshop? Contact Eric N. Gadol, PhD, & Martha Golden, PsyD
14 Hour DBT Fundamentals Training starting Sept. 6th
The DBT Fundamentals Training: a Trans-Diagnostic Treatment for Emotion Dysregulation
8 Sessions of DBT Training for Psychotherapists, Educators, and others in the Helping Professions. Starting September 2017.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a highly effective treatment developed by Marsha M. Linehan, PhD for multi-diagnostic, severely disordered individuals with pervasive emotion dysregulation. While originally developed for difficult-to-treat patients with borderline personality disorder, research has demonstrated that DBT is also effective for individuals with a variety of complex problems, such as eating disorders and substance abuse, where emotion dysregulation is often at the core of the client’s problems. DBT, with its dialectical framework, provides a behavioral systems approach also shown to benefit couples and families. DBT has been adapted for use in a variety of settings, including inpatient hospitals, schools, residential programs, and prisons, as well as outpatient clinics.
One of Marsha Linehan's earliest recommendations was that therapists participate in a minimum of 2 days of training in DBT before helping facilitate a Skills Group. The 8 session format will allow greater opportunity to supplement the training with additional resources and practice between sessions.
Benefits of the 14 Hour DBT Introductory Fundamentals Training over 8 Sessions:
1. Gain understanding of these key DBT fundamentals:
The Development of DBT into a Trans-Diagnostic Treatment for Emotion Dysregulation
The Structure of DBT: Stages of Treatment and Target Hierarchy
Understanding Emotion Dysregulation, the Biosocial Theory and the Transactional Model
When and How to Use the Acceptance Strategies, featuring Validation
The Behavioral Change Strategies, featuring Problem-Solving
Overview of DBT Skills of Core Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and Distress Tolerance
What is Dialectics and How to Use the Dialectical Strategies
DBT Behavior Chain Analysis and Case Formulation (to identify factors controlling problem behaviors)
Strategies for Adapting DBT to Unique Settings Using DBT Functions and Modes
2. This training meets one of the basic requirements (along with being on a DBT Team and providing the 5 Functions/Modes of comprehensive DBT) for therapists to be part of the TADBiT DBT Therapist Directory. For those of you who have been participant-observers in DBT Skills Group or in DBT Skillz for Therapists, this training provides a theoretical and practical foundation that complements your experiential learning.
3. Participants who complete the 8 sessions will earn a certificate of completion for the 14 hours of training. While past experience indicates that these hours can be applied to certain categories of continuing education for LCSWs and LMFTs, participants assume responsibility to confirm this with the respective licensure boards. For example, it is Level B for psychologists.
Who Should Attend?
This course is designed for mental health and other professionals (clergy, teachers, professors, nurses, physicians). Supporting self and others in developing skillful compassion increases effective emotional coping and well-being.
Location: Unity Center of Peace in Chapel Hill, 8800 Seawell School Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Schedule: 8:45 - 10:30am over 8 Wednesday Mornings
- September 6 and 27
- October 11 and 25
- November 1, 15, and 29
- December 13
Cost: This 14 hours of training will be $390 if paid by August 15th or $420 if paid by the first class ($480 if paid by September 27th). Full-time students can contact us about additional assistance. Cancellations and Refunds – A $100.00 handling fee will be deducted upon cancellation. Refund requests by email must be received one week before the start date.
For registration instructions, email: jmaderlmft@gmail.com
Highly Recommended Books: DBT® Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets, 2nd Edition, Marsha Linehan; Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. Marsha Linehan; DBT® Skills Training Manual: 2nd Edition, Marsha Linehan; Doing Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Kelly Koerner; DBT® Principles in Action: Acceptance, Change, and Dialectics, Charlie Swenson.
Instructors: John Mader, LMFT and Jeanette Sarbo, PhD
John Mader has a private practice in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC as a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT) and DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™. He has completed DBT Intensive training and is on the Leadership Team of Triangle Area Dialectical Therapy (founded by Meggan Moorhead and Norma Safransky). He has taught DBT Skills Training Groups (beg 1997), DBT Family Skills Training (beg 2004), DBT Skills for Couples (beg 2008) and leads a DBT Consultation Team. His website, dbtfamilyskills.com, provides resources on using DBT skills in relationship.
Dr. Jeanette Sarbo, with degrees in clinical psychology and clinical social work, is an experienced DBT therapist, who continues to be deeply enthusiastic about the healing these skills bring. She began her DBT training in earnest in 1995, and has been co-leading DBT skills training groups for twenty years with Dr. Meggan Moorhead. She continues to feel gratitude that learning DBT skills has given so many clients a sense of mastery, competence, and freedom from overwhelming emotional pain. After a lifetime of distress, change is possible.
Case Conceptualization in Stages 1 & 2 of DBT with Lorie Ritschel, Feb. 3rd
DBT Institute with Lorie Ritschel
Case Conceptualization & Behavioral Targeting in Stages 1 & 2 of DBT: Treating High Target Behaviors and Trauma in the Multi-Diagnostic Clie w/ Lorie Ritschel, PhD
Friday, February 3, 2017, 8:30 -4:30 at the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Auditorium of the UNC School of Social Work, Chapel Hill, NC
When: Friday, February 3, 2017 from 8:30-4:30 , with1 hour lunch and 2 fifteen minute breaks
Where: Cardinal Innovations Healthcare -OPC Community Office; 201 Sage Road, Suite 300, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514
Continuing Education: 6 hours
Fees: General Admission: $260; SSW disount: $160; Early Bird discount available before December 27th: General $210; SSW discount: $110
- SSW Discount available for current UNC-CH School of Social Work students, faculty, field instructors, and task supervisors.
- Additional $6 fee for psychologists who would like to receive Category A credit
Registration: Online pre-registration You may pre-register up until the day before the program
Description: Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based treatment for individuals with severe emotion regulation difficulties and borderline personality disorder (BPD). The treatment comprises four stages that are structured based on the client’s level of disorder (e.g., severity, complexity), and each stage includes both primary and secondary treatment targets. In Stage 1, the primary treatment target is severe behavioral dyscontrol (e.g., suicidality, self-injury), and the associated treatment goal is behavioral control. In Stage 2, which often requires treatment for trauma and PTSD, the primary treatment target is emotional avoidance and the associated goal is non-anguished emotional experiencing. Across both stages, clinicians use chain analyses to identify a client’s secondary treatment targets (e.g., emotional vulnerability, apparent competence, inhibited grieving), or the underlying dialectical dilemmas and behavioral patterns that are related to problem behaviors.
Thus, effective therapeutic work with multi-diagnostic clients relies on careful case conceptualizations and chain analyses. This workshop will help DBT clinicians improve their ability to assess primary and secondary treatment targets and create case formulations to address what is most relevant in multi-diagnostic clients – particularly those in need of treatment for PTSD. In addition, clinicians will be given an overview of the DBT-Prolonged Exposure (DBT-PE) protocol for the treatment of comorbid BPD and PTSD.
This workshop is an intermediate to advanced workshop for clinicians with knowledge of DBT.
Trainer: Lorie Ritschel, Ph.D., is Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and is a licensed psychologist with a private practice in Durham, NC. She is a certified DBT therapist and an expert trainer of DBT through Behavioral Tech, LLC. Dr. Ritschel specializes in the treatment of depression, anxiety, and emotion dysregulation in adolescents and adults using Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Behavioral Activation.
HALF-DAY DBT SKILLS FOR FAMILIES, COUPLES & FRIENDS, Dec 3rd, Chapel Hill
HALF-DAY DBT FAMILY SKILLS TRAINING FOR FAMILY AND FRIENDS
Date: Saturday, December 3rd, 2016
Location: Unity Center of Peace, Chapel Hill NC
This four hour workshop aims to provide you with essential DBT skills that you can immediately apply to your particular needs. While not covering the material of the 12 week Family Skills Training, these four hours will be a substantial introduction to skills that can help break the perpetual negative feedback loop that prompts criticism, self-blame, or defensiveness in our intimate relationships. Additional information at www.dbtfamilyskills.com.
Each member will receive handouts. I will be sending participants some materials in advance to prepare for effective use of this workshop with your unique issues or patterns. Cost for this half-day workshop is $100 per person and $150 per couple. Sliding scale is available (I do not want finances to prevent any interested family members from participating). Part of the proceeds go to support NEA.BPD and NAMI.
Schedule: 8:45am. Registration
9:00am. Introduction & Orientation to DBT for family members. Mindfulness exercise
9:45am. Identifying the Problems as Individual Target Behaviors. The “Red Zone” of Emotion Dysregulation, Emotional Vulnerability & States of Mind Balanced Wise Mind and Mindfulness Skills
11:00am. Communicating with Validation Strategies. DEAR. Validation First
Noon Understanding the Patterns and Responding More Effectively. Responding to Red Zone Behaviors. Behavioral Chain of Problem & Solution Analysis
Next Steps and Practice: Your Ambitious Goals (with Commitment to Act)
To register, as well as for more information on the 12 week DBT Family Skills Training and Skills for Couples Groups, please contact John at jmaderlmft@gmail.com.
DBT for Adolescents with Lorie Ritschel, Oct 17th, UNC SSW
Oct 17, Monday, 12-2pm, DBT for Adolescents: Working with Suicidal, Self-Harming, and Emotionally Sensitive Youth, with Lorie Ritschel, Ph.D.
http://cls.unc.edu/upcoming-programs-2016-2017/unc-clinical-lecture-series/dbt-with-lorie-ritschel/
Where: UNC School of Social Work Auditorium, 325 Pittsboro Street, Chapel Hill, NC Directions and parking
Continuing Education: 2 hours
Fees: Workshop fee is $35
Workshop is offered free of charge to current UNC SSW students, staff, faculty, and to current UNC SSW Field Instructors and Task Supervisors (obtain coupon code from Field Office).
Additional $6 charge for psychologists who would like to receive Category A credit (please bring $6 day of event)
Registration: Online pre-registration – You may pre-register up until the day before the program.
Description: Suicide and self-injury are significant public health problems and are all too common in emotionally dysregulated youth. Research supports the use of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) as a treatment for multi-diagnostic youth who engage in suicidal and non-suicidal self-injurious behaviors. DBT uses a blend of acceptance and change strategies along with a particular session structure to engage adolescents in treatment and to target these problematic behaviors. In this workshop, clinicians will learn about the treatment framework, session structure, and core strategies from DBT that support work with emotionally sensitive youth. Participants will learn how to differentiate between suicidal and self-harming behaviors, how to assess the function of these behaviors, and how to balance change and acceptance strategies to promote growth and change in dysregulated adolescents. In addition, some general principles and considerations of working with emotionally sensitive youth (e.g., confidentiality issues, using creative reinforcers in therapy, stylistic considerations for the therapist) will be discussed.