CE: Using Techniques from DBT to Solve Your Toughest Clinical Problems

Techniques from DBT to Solve Your Toughest Clinical Problems

Date: Thursday October 16th

Time: 8:45am-1pm

Location: 10814 Kenilworth Ave

Description:

Join us for an engaging event where we will delve into Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) techniques to help you tackle your most challenging clinical issues. Learn practical strategies and tools to enhance your therapeutic skills and improve client outcomes. This in-person event promises to be insightful and interactive, providing you with valuable insights and unique opportunities to create connections with colleagues.

Info: Arrival. Take your time parking, enjoy coffee, tea, and breakfast snacks,

while connecting with colleagues.

Info: LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Understand how to focus clients on creating a “life worth living”.

Describe the benefit of mindfulness-based interventions for the client and the therapist.

Develop awareness of the function of behavior and apply it to therapy to improve outcomes.

Understand how to create discrepancies with values, goals, and behaviors to move therapy forward.

Recognize the importance of dialectics, including the central dialectic of acceptance and change.

Describe how to create movement and flow in therapy using both acceptance-based and change based strategies.

Info: Please bring an item that you’re currently loving—it could be work-related or

non-work related. Some examples include: a favorite book, a therapeutic tool that

you are finding to be effective, a self-care item, a planner, soft pants, tea, a resource, a

relaxing hobby, a website, or anything that inspires you, rejuvenates you, or simply brings

you joy.

We’ll enjoy a catered buffet lunch, walk around to explore what colleagues are excited

about, and make meaningful connections with new peers.

Info: One week prior to the event, you will receive a PDF booklet via email containing contact information for all attending professionals, along with their specialties and referral details. This guide will help you connect with colleagues in advance (if you choose) and make it easier to identify and follow up with people you meet during the event for potential referrals and networking opportunities.