DBT Intensive

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