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CEU summary:

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers tools to help manage emotions, deal with painful situations, and improve relationships. The empirically-based therapy is designed to treat borderline personality disorder, substance abuse disorders, eating disorders, depression, anxiety, and urges for self-harm or suicide. In this class, social workers / therapists will learn how to teach critical skills to their clients with easy-to-understand examples, tools, and strategies.

Presenter bio:

James Burkhalter, MSW, LISW is a clinical social worker at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) in Iowa City, Iowa, and is currently the Director of DBT Programming in the Department of Psychiatry.  He earned his BA in psychology, BA in social work, and MSW at the University of Iowa.  James provides individual DBT to clients and co-facilitates adolescent and adult DBT skills training groups.  He has been employed at UIHC for more than ten years, and has extensive experience working with mental health patients in both inpatient and outpatient psychiatric settings.

Learning objectives:

• Learn core Mindfulness skills through the Three States of Mind, “What” skills, and “How” skills.
• Identify crisis survival and reality acceptance skills clients can use when tolerating painful emotions and urges.
• Describe goals of Emotion Regulation skills training.
• Explain to clients how they can keep and maintain healthy relationships, skillfully get somebody to do what they want, and maintain their self-respect.

Agenda:

9:00 – 9:30 a.m.                      Introduction and Orientation to DBT

9:30 – 10:30 a.m.       Mindfulness Skills

10:30 – 10:45 a.m.     Break

10:45 – 12:00 p.m.    Distress Tolerance Skills

12:00 – 1:00 p.m.       Lunch

1:00 – 2:15 p.m.         Emotion Regulation Skills

2:15 – 2:30 p.m.         Break

2:30 – 3:45 p.m.         Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills

3:45 – 4:00 p.m.         Q&A and Evaluations

6 CEUs

Public price = $90

Students / faculty = $20

Field Instructors = FREE