ISITDBT 2014 Conference
Philadelphia, PAThe 2014 ISITDBT Conference was held in Philadelphia, PA at the Philadelphia Downtown Marriott in conjunction with the convention for the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) on Thursday, November 20, 2014.
ISITDBT 2014 Program
ISITDBT 2014 Accreditation and Continuing Education
For 2014, Behavioral Tech, LLC will be the CE Sponsor for ISIDBT. You must purchase Continuing Education credits prior to the Conference in order to receive those credits. ISITDBT and BTECH will not be able to issue CE credits after the conference to participants who did not purchase them. The required Approval Statements and Continuing Education Information are as follows:
Please remember to sign in & sign out to document your attendance. Only participants with 100% attendance will receive credit: Partial Credit will not be offered. Continuing Education documentation will be mailed 4-6 weeks after the Conference.
This offering meets the requirements for the following hours by discipline. Licensing/continuing education requirements vary by state. Please contact your state’s regulatory authority to verify if this course meets your licensing/continuing education requirements. Inquiries regarding CE for other disciplines not listed may be directed to Behavioral Tech at (206) 675-8588 x105 or via email at ceinfo@behavioraltech.org
Psychologists:
Behavioral Tech, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Behavioral Tech maintains responsibility for the program and its content. Behavioral Tech has allocated 6.75 hours of CE within APA guidelines. Behavioral Tech will mail you a letter documenting your attendance after successful completion of the program.
Social Workers:
Behavioral Tech, LLC is approved by the NASW, Washington State Chapter, Provider Number 1975-166, to offer continuing education for Certified Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Mental Health Counselors. The State of Pennsylvania Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors accepts this approval as reciprocal. Behavioral Tech has allocated 6.75 Continuing Education hours for this activity and will email a certificate of attendance upon 100% completion of the program.
ISITDBT 2014 Workshops
DBT in Schools, The Dos and the Donts
presented by Alec Miller, PsyD, Jim Mazza, PhD, Lizz Dexter-Mazza, PsyD, Sara Steinberg, PhD, & Liz Courtney-Seidler, PhD
Both school administrators and clinicians have acknowledged a growing need for DBT programs targeting K-12 students. These programs come in two forms: 1) comprehensive DBT for students already exhibiting emotional and behavioral dysregulation and 2) universal DBT skills training offered in classroom settings. In this workshop, participants will learn more about the particular challenges of providing DBT in school settings.
Details of Mazza and colleagues’ DBT-based skills curriculum for in classrooms will be presented. Approaches to assessing the effectiveness of school-based DBT programs will also be discussed.
Workshop leaders will share their experiences “from the trenches” of teaching DBT in schools and give participants the opportunity to ask questions.
Running a Successful Free Standing DBT Clinic: Learning from the Dialectical Dilemmas.
presented by Andrew White, PhD, Jesse Homan, L.P.C., Kathryn Patrick, LCSW, & Josh Smith, LMSW
Running a free-standing DBT clinic requires more than just knowing the model: it involves dialectically balancing the needs of clients, therapists, the community, and management staff. This workshop reflects the experiences of three major, free-standing, private DBT agencies across the United States in resolving these tensions.
Owners, management staff, and direct service staff will present their strategies for success, including how to apply the DBT philosophy to the clinic’s management and supervision structure.
In the experiential portion of this workshop, participants will use a checklist created by the presenters to identify a dialectical dilemma faced by their own clinic or agency and create a problem-solving proposal they can take home with them.
Transitioning from Stage I to Stage II DBT for Clients with Co-occurring Borderline Personality Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder,
presented by Lauren Jackson, PsyD, & Kristen Leishman, PsyD
Approximately 30% of individuals with BPD have comorbid PTSD and Linehan’s Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder states “the second stage of [DBT] treatment” is “oriented to reducing posttraumatic stress.” However, transitioning a DBT client from Stage I standard DBT to Stage II PTSD treatment requires careful assessment and planning to set the patient up for success.
In this workshop, participants will learn the practical skills of how to prepare a patient for Stage II: identifying pretreatment goals for Stage II work; effectively introducing and providing evidence-based trauma treatment; assessing and treating obstacles that may arise, and identifying modifications to existing interventions that may be necessary in Stage II work for more effective outcomes.
DBT for Pre-Adolescent The Use of “Stinging Goals” in DBT Interpersonal Effectiveness Work: Overview of Major Adaptations.
by Jeremy E. Stone, PhD
How do you teach Interpersonal Effectiveness when your client appears to have multiple competing goals? For example, her Objective Effectiveness goal may be to ask her boss for a raise, but she also wishes to punish him for not offering it to her spontaneously. This wish could be framed as simply the result of anger, a “factor reducing interpersonal effectiveness.”
However, Dr. Stone’s experience with adolescents and parents indicates it is often more helpful to frame it as a “stinging goal”: a validatable goal in its own right, even if it does not contribute to the client’s effectiveness with other goals.
Participants in this workshop will have the opportunity to role-play expressing versus omitting stinging goals to experience the changing effects on themselves and their partners. The workshop will also introduce techniques for reducing the negative impacts of stinging goals, such as “reverse empathy,” sharing one’s predicament with the other person, and “persuading with the relationship to leverage the objective.”
ISITDBT 2014 Clinical Seminar
The following Clinical Seminar will be provided in the afternoon of the ISITDBT program day. As in previous years, this seminar will be attended by all ISITDBT registrants. You will not need to make a separate selection during the registration to attend this seminar. All ISITDBT registrants will attend.
Improving Competence in DBT: Avoiding Common Adherence Pitfalls
presented by Kathryn E. Korslund, PhD & Melanie S. Harned, PhD
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a comprehensive, principle-driven treatment that requires clinicians to learn and apply a large number of strategies and protocols. Some strategies are needed in all sessions, whereas other strategies and protocols are context-dependent, requiring the clinician to know which are needed or most effective given the specific characteristics of the situation and the client. In this workshop we will review some of the most common problems that occur in applying these strategies and protocols during actual DBT sessions. This will be based on data from approximately 2,000 individual and group sessions that have been coded for adherence to DBT with clinicians from a range of practice settings and experience levels. We will discuss and illustrate some of the most common adherence related pitfalls as well as strategies for improving competence.