Case Conceptualization of Dialectical Behavior Therapy

This 16-hour FREE virtual training instructed over four days is an advanced practice of DBT case conceptualization. During the training, participants will be asked to complete a case conceptualization of an individual psychotherapy client. Those case conceptualizations will be used as examples to identify stages and targets for their individual client.

This training is intended for COI and TIC-Approved DBT Team Members.

Please Note: Training Sessions are Not Recorded

To foster an open environment for discussion and real-time collaboration, we do not provide a playback of this training. We encourage you to join us live to get the full experience and have your questions answered.

14.75 Social Work CEUs

Trainers: Matt Ditty, DSW, LICSW and Andrea Gottlieb, Ph.D., Treatment Implementation Collaborative

Trainer Bios:

Dr. Matthew Ditty has been a social worker and mental health clinician since 2003. He is the founder and clinical director of The Ebright Collaborative, LLO – a free-standing Dialectical Behavior Therapy
(DBT) program in Wilmington, Delaware. He is also a part-time instructor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Master of Social Work program, and a trainer and consultant with The Treatment Implementation Collaborative, LLC. He began his career in the Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and continued it as a psychotherapist in private practice. He has held part-time and consulting positions with the United States Navy, the Positive Psychology Center, Recovery at Penn, and others, performing tasks such as counseling 911 survivors, providing clinical supervision, and enacting treatment protocol for several research studies. Dr. Ditty’s primary expertise and passion is for implementing evidence-based treatments for suicide, non-suicidal self-injury, and post-traumatic stress disorder. He has received Core Clinical Training in DBT by Dr. Shari Manning, he has served as a member of Dr. Marsha Linehan’s DBT Strategic Planning Meeting in Seattle, and he is a published researcher on DBT Implementation. Dr. Ditty is a Certified DBT Clinician by the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification.

Dr. Andrea Gottlieb (she/her) is the Director of DBT Training, the Comprehensive DBT Externship, and The Baltimore DBT Team at The Bethesda Group. She works for Treatment Implementation Collaborative as a Consultant and Trainer and is a Certified DBT Clinician by the DBT Linehan Board of Certification. Andrea earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Denver and completed her predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. She then joined Sheppard Pratt where she trained staff in inpatient, residential, partial, and outpatient levels of care in using DBT in non-traditional and adherent settings. She has presented on DBT and suicide risk management numerous times, taught many students and staff DBT principles and skills, and published over a dozen articles on depression and self-harm in peer reviewed journals. Dr. Gottlieb is a Certified DBT Clinician by the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification.

• Lead Mindfulness Practice.
• Discuss the assessment of the 5 areas of dysregulation used with their DBT clients.
• Identify the three aspects of emotion vulnerability related to the biosocial theory with a client.
• List the life worth living goals for a client.
• Described how to identify the correct stage of DBT treatment for a client.
• Create a primary target list for a client.
• List the commitment strategies in DBT.
• List the 6 secondary targets in DBT.
• List examples of when chain analyses should be completed.
• Give examples of responses with a client dissociates during a chain analysis.
• List the steps in a missing link analysis.
• Describe possible controlling variables for a behavior.
• List the steps in using exposure as a solution.
• Describe how to use cognitive modification to accept a thought and to change a thought.
• Explain the principles of contingency management in changing behavior. 

This training brought to you through a partnership with the State of New Mexico Health Care Authority, Behavioral Health Services Division and the Children Youth and Families Department, Behavioral Health Services.

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