Katelyn Baxter-Musser & Andrew Bein – Dialectical Behavior Therapy (C-DBT): Practical Clinical Applications for Trauma, Comorbidities, Addiction and More

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Effective with Borderline Personality Disorders, self-harm, complex trauma, and more… DBT not only transforms lives, but the way you do therapy.

An expert in DBT training, Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, C-DBT, brings years of foundational DBT expertise into easy-to-digest modules so you’ll walk away with strategies you can easily adapt to any client.

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What You’ll Learn In Dialectical Behavior Therapy Certification (C-DBT)

Course Outline

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Certification Training

Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, C-DBT | Click here for information about Katelyn Baxter-Musser.
In this online self-study, DBT expert Katelyn Baxter-Musser will walk you through the core principles of DBT grounded in real-life case studies so you’ll gain updated DBT strategies that you can apply immediately.

More than just the basics, you’ll get the ins-and-outs of the foundational approach of DBT so you can easily customize your DBT approach client-by-client. You’ll learn how to:

• Adapt DBT with different populations to maximize flexibility and positive outcomes
• Overcome common stumbling blocks to implementing DBT
• Employ exercises to help clients keep relationships without sacrificing self-respect
• Successfully confront therapy interfering behaviors
• Use interventions to reduce feelings of shame, guilt and fear
• Reduce self-harm and suicidal behaviors
• Teach clients how to use diary cards to monitor emotions… and MORE!

Plus, if you act now, you can add a valuable certification to your resume and become Certified in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (C-DBT) at NO additional cost ($249.99 value — yours free!)

THAT’S NOT ALL – You’ll also get a FREE BONUS MODULE (Includes FREE CE Hours!)

Module 1: The Foundation: Beyond the Basics
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy and what are the essential functions in therapy? Module 1 teaches DBT’s Biosocial Theory and how it guides DBT treatment, along with:

• The foundations of DBT, dialectics, core assumptions and philosophies
• Evidence-based practice, therapeutic factors, and the research that empowers therapists to customize DBT to their clients and settings
• How DBT speaks to the therapeutic factors that most influence outcomes

Module 2: DBT Treatment Framework & Structure
Module 2 will guide you step-by-step through the application of DBT framework to your client population. You’ll get specific skills training and validation strategies on:

• How to effectively structure therapy sessions for both individuals and groups
• The use of treatment stages and the treatment hierarchy
• How to systematically prioritize life-threatening, self-harming, and treatment interfering behaviors
• How to apply the most up-to-date research and address its limitations

Module 3: DBT Skills Training: Strategies That Work
Teaching clients new skills is the heart of behavior change, and your DBT Skills training will be addressed in four skills-focused areas. You’ll learn specific methods on how to be an effective skills trainer. You’ll get step-by-step instruction and exercises on how to introduce and reinforce skill use, for any client, in these four core areas:

• Mindfulness: Cultivate the Skills at the Core of Successful DBT Therapy
• Interpersonal Effectiveness: Skills to Build Better Relationships and Lives
• Emotion Regulation: Practical Skills for Healthier Emotions and Greater Resilience
• Distress Tolerance: Skills to Cope with Painful Moments and Survive Crisis

Module 4: DBT in Clinical Practice: Diary Cards, Behavioral Analysis & Change and DBT Therapy
Master the essential DBT tools and interventions that are key to targeted and effective treatment planning. Whether an individual or group consultation, you’ll learn:

• How to use diary cards and homework to monitor symptoms, urges, and skill use to set therapy agendas
• Mastery of behavioral chain analysis to understand behaviors and problem solve
• Commitment and orienting strategies
• Key interventions that comprise DBT, including validation and more
• How to identify, develop and manage behavioral contingencies, chain analysis & missing links analysis
• Cognitive interventions from a DBT perspective
• How to balance reciprocal and irreverent communication styles
• 3 ways to decrease therapist burnout

Module 5: Consultation, Safety, Self-Harm and Suicidal Crises: A Roadmap for Assessment and Intervention
Enhance your practice with elevated consultation process within the DBT framework. You’ll learn guidelines for a DBT therapist in managing challenging clinical situations and behaviors so you can develop strategies for managing self-injury and suicidal urges. You’ll learn:

• How to develop an effective consultative process
• Guiding principles and qualities of effective treatment teams
• Problem-solving strategies for challenging behaviors
• Essential assessment and intervention skills for suicidal and self-harm presentations
• Protocols for when and how to hospitalize clients
• The keys to helping clients develop comprehensive safety plans that work
• Firearms, medications, and lethal-means restriction plans that work

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