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
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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.