Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a treatment for borderline personality disorder developed by Marsha Linehan in the early ‘90s. She proposed that many symptoms, including chronic suicidality and self-injury, functioned to help clients regulate emotions. DBT focuses on helping clients to learn to manage their overwhelming emotions more effectively. An important component of DBT involves accepting and validating the client while urgently working helping the client to build a life worth living.

VCPI is hosting a two-part training this summer. Session 1 (Tuesday, August 3) is focused on Adult Community Mental Health. This introductory workshop will be hosted on Zoom, is open to all (limit 35 participants), and will focus on the following learning objectives:

• Understand how problematic behaviors may function to help clients cope with limited emotion regulation capacity.
• Understand how pejorative assumptions can lead to ineffective treatment.
• Understand the importance of validation.
• Identify four basic strategies to change behavior in DBT.
• Understand the DBT consult team agreements and the importance of consult.

Registration: A few spaces have opened up for this session. Please click here to join via the waitlist and we will confirm via email.
Agenda
8:30–10:15am - Overview
10:15–10:30am - Break
10:30am–12:00pm - Acceptance Strategies
12:00 -- 1:00pm - Lunch Break
1:00–2:30pm - Change Strategies
2:30–2:45pm - Break
2:45 – 4:00pm - Consultation Agreements (including dialectics, observing limits, etc.)

Trainers
Sue Swindell (Session 1)
Danielle Seymour (Session 2)
Rebecca White (Session 2)
Ashley Wight (Session 1)

This program is made possible by a grant from the Vermont Department of Mental Health.