Stephanie Vaughn – Advanced Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills Training Course

DBT Foundations

This module will teach you about the history and background behind this country. Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) How to and Treatment

• Identify the core beliefs, modalities, assumptions and principles of DBT treatment
• Consider whether an adaptive/modified DBT, or the original formula, would be more effective with your client population
• During treatment, avoid stereotyping and stigmatizing clients
• Determine which clients would be most suitable for DBT therapy

Core DBT Modalities

Module 2 expands upon the fundamentals of DBT and examines some of its core modalities. This module will teach you how to:

• Recognize the core and common dialectics in DBT
• Identify DBT’s 4 modalities — individual sessions, skills group, phone coaching and peer consultation
• Prioritize life-threatening, self-Treatment interfering behaviours and harming
• Integrate the use of diary cards into your client’s treatment plans
• Peer consultation and individual sessions are possible

Skills Principles of Core Mindfulness for Group and Individuals

This module outlines how to lead a successful skills group and goes into detail on the first core skills group module — mindfulness. You’ll learn how to:

• You can organize your skills group sessions efficiently
• You can incorporate the core principles of mindfulness in your treatment strategies
• Teach your clients “wise mind” This tool can be used to help with mindfulness practice
• Group issues can be resolved effectively

Skills Training Continued

Module 4 builds on the previous module and focuses on skills from the three remaining DBT skill group modules, including how to:

• Your clients can improve their relationship quality by improving their interpersonal effectiveness.
• Teaching emotional regulation skills using strategies like fact checking, coping ahead, and core mindfulness principles
• You can increase distress tolerance skills of your clients by teaching radical acceptance

Dialectics within DBT

In this module we’ll explore dialectics in DBT. You’ll learn how to:

• Identify the three core strategies of DBT: validation, change and dialectical strategies
• Your clients will benefit if you help them find the middle road between two contradictory ideas
• Your clients should be able to see both white and black simultaneously (the goal of dialectics).
• How to spot these patterns in clients’ thought patterns and recognize the three dialectical dilemmas

Strategies for Behavioral Change

In this module you’ll learn the behavioral interventions and methods that are most effective in changing behaviors. You’ll learn how to:

• Manage behavioral contingencies
• Determine the best strategies for changing your client’s behavior
• To improve your therapeutic results, you can use classical conditioning techniques
• Recognize that therapy interferes with behavior and minimize its influence during sessions

Telephone Coaching and Behavioral Analysis

This module covers telephone coaching and shows how to conduct behavior chain analyses. These topics include:

• Determine best practices and guidelines for incorporating phone coaching into your client’s treatment plan
• Phone coaching and therapy interfering behavior can neutralize any issues
• Identify potential precipitating factors and vulnerability factors that may lead to undesirable behaviors or events
• Show your clients how you conduct a behavioral chain analysis

Validation Strategies

Module 8 focuses on the use of validation strategies for DBT treatment. You’ll learn how to:

• Learn how to identify the different types and which one you should use during a session with your client.
• To validate your most difficult clients, use the concept of radical authenticity
• Set boundaries for validation
• Teaching clients DBT skills to ethically make decisions

Stephanie VaughnClinical Psychologist., Psy.D.-HSP, brings together her experience and knowledge to help you. Step-By-Step through 8 modules of In-Deep DBT TrainingAll designed to make it easy for you to apply effectively Dialectical Behavior Therapy Your client list. You can instantly get started with materials by watching your email and waiting for the order confirmation.

Get all course videos & materials online foreverYou can also download the materials and videos from this website. Plus, use The CE21 Mobile™ app to access the course content on-the-Use your mobile device to go anywhere and whenever you wish.

You’ll have the opportunity to Instantly connect with other professionals As you develop your DBT strategy, you will be able to access the course materials via interactive message boards. You’ll be part of a community of hundreds of practitioners all focused on these DBT materials, providing valuable opportunities to share insight and experiences, and to build your professional network.

Completion of your CE online tests Earn up to 12 CE Hours! specific to your profession.

Stephanie VaughnPsychologist, Ph.D.-HSP Psyche, PLLC was founded in Nashville, TN by Psyche. She is an associate faculty member of Vanderbilt University’s psychology and psychiatrist departments. She is a researcher. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for both adults and adolescents as a DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™. She is considered an expert on Therapy-The management of oppositional behavior in adolescents through interfering behaviors and contingency management

Dr. Vaughn In the Department of Veteran Affairs, she worked with soldiers returning home from wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. She also assisted female soldiers suffering from Military Sexual Trauma. She is active in the teaching and supervision of DBT for Vanderbilt’s psychology & counseling students and doctoral interns, as well as psychiatry residents. She founded and currently runs Vanderbilt’s DBT Peer Consultation Group. She has been an expert consultant in a number of schools and hospitals across the country.

Stephanie Vaughn PESI and Marsha M. Linhan, PhD, ABPP or their organization are not associated.