DBT Intensive

Next-generation online training for pre-existing clinical teams

Your Course at a Glance

Start date
Start anytime
Time
12 Months
Who this course is for
Clinical Teams
Accreditation
57 CE / CME Credits

The DBT Intensive program is simply “next generation.” Designed specifically for existing clinical teams, it’s tailored to meet the unique challenges of mental health professionals, working together to deliver life-saving treatment in a rapidly changing clinical landscape.

From the outset, this program empowers DBT teams to collaborate effectively, supporting each clinician in applying DBT to complex, real-world cases. Your team will benefit from over 20 hours of consultation with a DBT expert, ensuring your development is guided every step of the way. This specially tailored consultation is designed to support effective team formation, and reinforce the practical application of key DBT strategies. Your expert consultant will adapt their focus to fulfill the specific needs and requirements of your team and setting, to ensure successful implementation of your DBT program.

DBT Intensive is flexible and available to start immediately, suitable for teams of between 5 to 10 clinicians. The program includes the highly practical DBT Foundational course, designed to take you step-by-step through the DBT model with in-depth case studies, core principles, and stylistic strategies. You’ll have access to this course throughout the entire 12 months of the program, allowing for deeper engagement and ongoing reference.

Additionally, the Intensive program includes four free essential DBT textbooks, and an exclusive one-hour recording of a DBT Team Consultation in practice.

DBT Intensive is the complete “hands-on” training experience to become a DBT clinician. The program prepares your team to face complex clinical issues, helping clients find hope, commitment, and transformation.

Key Features:

  • Start anytime from November (eligibility approval typically takes 4-5 working days)

  • Ideal for teams of 5-10 mental health professionals

  • Includes DBT Foundational, accessible throughout the entire 12 months

  • 20+ hours of expert consultation to help your team develop and apply DBT together

  • Earn CEs at no additional cost

  • Four essential DBT textbooks, a comprehensive resource library, and optional “Dig Deeper” content to explore key areas that interest you

  • HIPAA-compliant Zoom button for automatic online connection

  • Online forum to communicate with fellow team members

  • Completion certificates and documentation

Learning Objectives:

By the end of the program, participants will be able to:

  1. Incorporate DBT assumptions and a dialectical worldview into treatment with multi-problem patients

  2. Understand and apply the biosocial model of DBT to conceptualize client issues

  3. Apply DBT principles and strategies in consultation team meetings

  4. Structure treatment according to the primary target hierarchies

  5. Complete pre-treatment tasks (for example, identifying client’s goals, orienting clients to DBT, and obtaining treatment commitment)

  6. Implement effective phone coaching strategies

  7. Conduct chain analyses for problematic behaviors and generate solutions for specific problematic links

  8. Apply the DBT problem-solving strategies (skills training, cognitive modification, exposure, and contingency management)

  9. Implement the acceptance principles and levels of validation in DBT

  10. Assess acute and long-term suicide risk, and apply DBT Suicide crisis protocols

  11. Implement effective approaches to PTSD within Stage 1 DBT treatment

  12. Structure a DBT Skills Group, and apply effective strategies for teaching in this treatment mode

  13. Prepare a DBT case formulation

  14. Define problem behaviors specifically and behaviorally

  15. Identify the controlling variables influencing a problem behavior

  16. Identify solutions to address the controlling variables influencing problem behaviors

  17. Generate solutions to address barriers in implementing DBT within your program

  18. Identify and address team issues using DBT strategies

  19. Identify DBT skills for clients to use for specific problems and contexts

  20. Ensure that your DBT program addresses the five functions of comprehensive treatment

DBT Intensive
  • DBT Foundational
  • Expert consultation
Includes free e-books
Valued $234
DBT Skills Training Manual, 2nd Ed
DBT Skills Training Handouts & Worksheets, 2nd Ed
Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder
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Program Goals

  • Equip new DBT team members with the theoretical and practical knowledge needed to provide DBT treatment.
  • Prepare participants to function as active members of a DBT Consultation Team.
  • Educate participants in the evidence-based decision making processes required to develop effective treatment plans for high-risk, multi-problem patients.
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Your pathway to becoming certified in DBT

The DBT-Linehan Board of Certification’s mission is a commitment to ensuring excellence and adherence to the highest standards in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Completing the DBT Intensive Plus program is your first step. 


The certification process rigorously assesses clinicians to ensure they possess the knowledge and skills essential for delivering DBT with adherence to the model as it has been researched. Similarly, they evaluate DBT programs to verify they have the necessary components and organizational structure to implement DBT with fidelity.This information is provided by the the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification. Find out more about their certification process here.

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