Katelyn Baxter-Musser – Dialectical Behavior Therapy Certification (C-DBT): Practical Clinical Applications for Trauma, Comorbidities, Addiction and More

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Bring one of the most in-demand treatments into your practice today.

Even if you come with entry-level understanding… YOU can become a DBT expert in less than 3 days or on your own schedule.

Effective with Borderline Personality Disorders, self-harm, complex trauma, and more… DBT not only transforms lives, but the way you do therapy.

An expert in DBT training, Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, C-DBT, brings years of foundational DBT expertise into easy-to-digest modules so you’ll walk away with strategies you can easily adapt to any client.

Register today and get what you need — advanced interventions, client tools and more — to treat even your most challenging clients when other approaches fall short.

Nearly 10,000 clinicians have already trusted PESI to provide the in-depth training they need to effectively use DBT in the therapy room.

Clinicians like you have seen proven results — are you ready to join the top echelon in our field?

Course Outline
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Certification Training
Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, C-DBT
In this online self-study, DBT expert Katelyn Baxter-Musser will walk you through the core principles of DBT grounded in real-life case studies so you’ll gain updated DBT strategies that you can apply immediately.

More than just the basics, you’ll get the ins-and-outs of the foundational approach of DBT so you can easily customize your DBT approach client-by-client. You’ll learn how to:

• Adapt DBT with different populations to maximize flexibility and positive outcomes
• Overcome common stumbling blocks to implementing DBT
• Employ exercises to help clients keep relationships without sacrificing self-respect
• Successfully confront therapy interfering behaviors
• Use interventions to reduce feelings of shame, guilt and fear
• Reduce self-harm and suicidal behaviors
• Teach clients how to use diary cards to monitor emotions… and MORE!

THAT’S NOT ALL – You’ll also get a FREE BONUS MODULE

Module 1: The Foundation: Beyond the Basics
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy and what are the essential functions in therapy? Module 1 teaches DBT’s Biosocial Theory and how it guides DBT treatment, along with:

• The foundations of DBT, dialectics, core assumptions and philosophies
• Evidence-based practice, therapeutic factors, and the research that empowers therapists to customize DBT to their clients and settings
• How DBT speaks to the therapeutic factors that most influence outcomes

Module 2: DBT Treatment Framework & Structure
Module 2 will guide you step-by-step through the application of DBT framework to your client population. You’ll get specific skills training and validation strategies on:
How to effectively structure therapy sessions for both individuals and groups

• The use of treatment stages and the treatment hierarchy
• How to systematically prioritize life-threatening, self-harming, and treatment interfering behaviors
• How to apply the most up-to-date research and address its limitations

Module 3: DBT Skills Training: Strategies That Work
Teaching clients new skills is the heart of behavior change, and your DBT Skills training will be addressed in four skills-focused areas. You’ll learn specific methods on how to be an effective skills trainer. You’ll get step-by-step instruction and exercises on how to introduce and reinforce skill use, for any client, in these four core areas:

• Mindfulness: Cultivate the Skills at the Core of Successful DBT Therapy
• Interpersonal Effectiveness: Skills to Build Better Relationships and Lives
• Emotion Regulation: Practical Skills for Healthier Emotions and Greater Resilience
• Distress Tolerance: Skills to Cope with Painful Moments and Survive Crisis

Module 4: DBT in Clinical Practice: Diary Cards, Behavioral Analysis & Change and DBT Therapy
Master the essential DBT tools and interventions that are key to targeted and effective treatment planning. Whether an individual or group consultation, you’ll learn:

• How to use diary cards and homework to monitor symptoms, urges, and skill use to set therapy agendas
• Mastery of behavioral chain analysis to understand behaviors and problem solve
• Commitment and orienting strategies
• Key interventions that comprise DBT, including validation and more
• How to identify, develop and manage behavioral contingencies, chain analysis & missing links analysis
• Cognitive interventions from a DBT perspective
• How to balance reciprocal and irreverent communication styles
• 3 ways to decrease therapist burnout

Module 5: Consultation, Safety, Self-Harm and Suicidal Crises: A Roadmap for Assessment and Intervention
Enhance your practice with elevated consultation process within the DBT framework. You’ll learn guidelines for a DBT therapist in managing challenging clinical situations and behaviors so you can develop strategies for managing self-injury and suicidal urges. You’ll learn:

• How to develop an effective consultative process
• Guiding principles and qualities of effective treatment teams
• Problem-solving strategies for challenging behaviors
• Essential assessment and intervention skills for suicidal and self-harm presentations
• Protocols for when and how to hospitalize clients
• The keys to helping clients develop comprehensive safety plans that work
• Firearms, medications, and lethal-means restriction plans that work

PLUS, get this bonus when you register now

Bonus Seminar with Andrew Bein 
Adapting Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Everyday Clinical Needs
Andrew Bein, PhD, LCSW
 
Get step-by-step training with one of the foremost DBT experts, Andrew Bein, PhD, LCSW, to adapt DBT to meet the needs of your practice and advance your clients’ treatment goals across a wide spectrum of behavioral health conditions. This bonus module will teach you how to achieve direct growth in each of the DBT skill areas (emotion regulation, mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, and distress tolerance) and guide your efforts in moment-to-moment resilience and non-reactivity. Walk away FREE handouts, worksheets, exercises and so much more to provide safe and effective DBT therapy in any clinical setting.

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