Contact
Harris Psychological Services Center
harrispsc@gmail.com
(859) 257-6853
Workshop Details
The primary objective of this training is to help behavioral health clinicians respond with skill and confidence when clients/patients/consumers do things that inadvertently interfere with their own therapy progress. Common and frustrating behaviors that interfere with therapeutic progress occur across a wide range of adult outpatients and therapeutic approaches. Some of these therapy-interfering behaviors (TIBs) include avoidance during therapy, therapy no-shows, drop-outs, angry behavior toward the therapist, suicidal threats, sexually inappropriate behavior, homework non-compliance, and behaviors on the part of the therapist that might interfere with therapeutic progress. This training will help clinicians better manage TIBs by using a practical framework with principles and strategies from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT; Linehan, 1993). DBT is an evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy for borderline personality disorder (BPD) that emphasizes therapists using strategies to target and reduce TIBs. Strategies to manage TIBs in DBT are consistent with and can fit well within the general framework of many other psychotherapies. In addition, strategies within DBT used to reduce TIBs may be applied across a variety of clinical problems, not only to individuals meeting diagnostic criteria for BPD. In this training attendees will learn how to use approaches from DBT to help reduce TIBs, without needing to be a DBT therapist, providing comprehensive DBT, or treating someone with BPD. Using didactics and experiential learning, this training will be designed to increase clinician skill and confidence responding to TIBs across a wide array of adults in outpatient settings, in order to reduce therapist burnout and enhance treatment outcomes.
Workshop Objectives
- Identify common behaviors that may interfere with therapeutic process.
- Present and discuss recent research providing an empirical basis for use of DBT strategies to help reduce treatment-interfering behaviors.
- Demonstrate evidence-based strategies from DBT that can be used to target and reduce therapy-interfering behaviors.
- Identify how such strategies can be applied to address therapy-interfering behaviors across a wide array of patients.
About the Presenter
Dr. M. Zachary Rosenthal is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Duke University Medical Center Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Duke University Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. He is Director of the Sensory Processing and Emotion Regulation Program and the Duke Cognitive Behavioral Research and Treatment Program (CBRTP). Within the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, he is the Vice Chair for Clinical Services. Dr. Rosenthal’s line of research has focused on characterizing problems with emotional functioning and emotion regulation in adult psychopathology in general and borderline personality disorder (BPD) specifically. Dr. Rosenthal is a licensed clinical psychologist in North Carolina trained in contemporary cognitive behavioral therapies (CBTs), and is an expert in the treatment of BPD using dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). He is a faculty member in the Duke Medical Psychology Internship program, where he trains and mentors Psychology Interns. Additionally, he provides educational training to community mental health and substance abuse professionals through a partnership between Duke University, AHEC, and the North Carolina Evidence-Based Practices Center.
Audience
This workshop is appropriate for Psychologists, Social Workers, Professional Counselors, and other Mental Health Professionals
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Registrant Type |
Early Bird (Ends Feb 19th) |
Pre-registration |
On-Site Registration |
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General Community |
$80 |
$100 |
$150 |
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UK Faculty/Staff |
$65 |
$85 |
$135 |
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Student |
$15 |
$20 |
$35 |
Fayette County Cooperative Extension
1140 Red Mile Pl.
Lexington, KY 40504
Parking is available on-site.
CE Credits/Attendance
Psychologists: This program will provide 3 CE credits. The University of Kentucky is an approved sponsor for CE credits by the Kentucky Board of Examiners of Psychology.
Students and Other Mental Health Professionals: This program is only approved for CE credit for licensed psychologists.