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Unlocking DBT:
Fundamentals for Lasting Change

This comprehensive 6-hour DBT foundational course for mental health providers is designed to provide a strong understanding of DBT principles and techniques, equipping you with the skills and knowledge to integrate DBT into your practice.

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Unlocking DBT:
Fundamentals for Lasting Change

Wednesday, June 11, 2025, 10:00 AM EDT - 4:45 PM EDT

Presenter: Dina Schwartz LCSW, DBT-LBC

Course Length: 6 Hours

Learning Objectives:

Adopt and practice a dialectical worldview in treatment.
Explain the biosocial model of BPD/pervasive emotion dysregulation.
Incorporate DBT assumptions about clients & therapists into treatment.
Apply DBT principles and strategies during DBT consultation team meetings
Structure treatment according to the target hierarchies for each modality (e.g., individual, skills training, phone).
Complete a DBT Case Formulation
Identify Secondary Targets and incorporating them into treatment

This workshop Offers 6 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits

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This comprehensive 6-hour DBT foundational course for mental health providers is designed to provide a strong understanding of DBT principles and techniques, equipping you with the skills and knowledge to integrate DBT into your practice.

Learning Objectives:

Adopt and practice a dialectical worldview in treatment.
Explain the biosocial model of BPD/pervasive emotion dysregulation.
Incorporate DBT assumptions about clients & therapists into treatment.
Apply DBT principles and strategies during DBT consultation team meetings
Structure treatment according to the target hierarchies for each modality (e.g., individual, skills training, phone).
Complete a DBT Case Formulation
Identify Secondary Targets and incorporating them into treatment

Agenda:

• Welcome and Introductions (15 minutes)
• Overview and History of DBT (45 minutes)
• Mindfulness Practice and Discussion (20 minutes)
• Dialectical Principles (45 minutes)
• Break (15 minutes)
• DBT Case Formulation (45 minutes)
• The Biosocial Model (40 minutes)
• DBT Skills Training Procedures (30 minutes)
• Functions & Modes of Treatment (50 minutes)
• DBT Consultation Team (30 minutes)
• Levels of Disorder & Stages of Treatment (60 minutes)
• Treatment Targets and Secondary Targets (30 minutes)
• Q&A/Wrap-Up (15 minutes)

This presentation is open to:

Social Workers
Professional Counselors
Therapists
Psychologists
Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services

Course Level: introductory

Level of Clinician: intermediate

New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives

Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.

Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations, please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification. Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often, and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling. The grievance policy for trainings provided by the NEFESH INTERNATIONAL is available here Satisfactory Completion Participants must have paid the tuition fee, logged in and out each day, attended the entire workshop, and completed an evaluation to receive a certificate (If this is a pre-recorded program, a post-test with a passing grade of 80% to receive a certificate.) Failure to log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates are available after satisfactory course completion by clicking here.

There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.

Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0129.
Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0325.
Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0774.
CE You! is an approved sponsor of the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners for continuing education credits for licensed social workers in Maryland.
CE You! maintains responsibility for this program.

Refunds
Registrants who are unable to attend a Frum Therapist seminar or live workshop may ask for, and will receive, a credit or refund (your choice). Refund requests will be processed within 3 business days. When an attendee knows in advance that they are unable to attend we ask that they inform Frum Therapist ahead of time by emailing [email protected] or by calling or texting (607) 249-4585 this allows us to free up the spot in the training in the event that a training is at or near capacity.