Key Strategies in Individual DBT Treatment

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Britt H. Rathbone, LCSW-C Related seminars and products

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Britt Rathbone, LCSW-C, provides mental health services to adolescents and their families in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. He has 30 30 years of experience working directly with adolescents and families, is a "top therapist" for adolescents, teaches graduate students, trains therapists and leads a highly regarded and successful clinical practice. he lectures often on the value of DBT with young people. He is a dynamic and passionate speaker and his trainings consistently receive the highest ratings. He is the coauthor of Dialectical Behavior Therapy for At-Risk Adolescents, What works With Teens: A Professional's Guide to Engaging Authentically with Adolescents to Achieve Lasting Change, and Parenting a Teen Who Has Intense Emotions (New Harbinger, 2016).

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Britt Rathbone is the founder and director of Rathbone & Associates and has employment relationships with Washington Center for Mental Health Training and the University of Maryland School of Social Work. He receives royalties as a published author. Britt Rathbone receives a speaking honorarium, product, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Britt Rathbone is a volunteer for DBT- Linehan Board of Certification. He is a member of the Greater Washington Society for Clinical Social Work, the National Association of Social Workers, the American Group Psychotherapy Association and the Registry of Group Psychotherapists.

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Objectives

1. Articulate the specific treatment modes necessary for treatment to be DBT. 
2. Describe specific interventions that are required in an individual DBT session. 
3. List the interventions that are optional in DBT sessions. 
4. Recognize behavioural interventions used in adherent DBT individual therapy. 
5. Utilize communication strategies used in DBT individual therapy. 

Outline

• What is DBT? 
• The primary treatment modes of adherent DBT treatment and the critical role of individual therapy 
• The importance of fidelity and adherence when using DBT  
• The critical interventions that are required in an individual DBT session 
• Optional interventions to use in DBT sessions 
• The key behavioural interventions used in adherent DBT individual therapy 
• The most effective communication strategies used in DBT individual therapy 
• Risks and limitations to the research 

Target Audience

• Psychologist
• Physicians
• Nurses
• Counsellors
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Addiction Counsellors
• Social Workers

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