Jump Start in Dialectic Behavioral Therapy©

The Jump Start in DBT© focuses on learning and practicing all aspects of DBT individual psychotherapy so that clinicians understand how to develop and move fluidly through the comprehensive treatment. This 32 hour FREE virtual training will focus on the strategies (validation, communication, case management, dialectical) and the assessments and interventions (chain analysis, exposure, contingency management, cognitive modification and skills coaching) in DBT. Participants will learn exactly how to conduct the first four sessions of DBT (Pre-Treatment) and each task within them. How to structure individual therapy will also be taught, focusing on what happens from the beginning to end of each session as well as covering what happens between sessions.

This training is for New Mexico Behavioral Health Clinical Leadership and Clinicians approved to participate in the DBT Team Cohort. 

29.5 Social Work CEUs

Trainer:
Matt Ditty, DSW, LICSW & Andrea Gottlieb, Ph.D., Treatment Implementation Collaborative, LLC.

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.

• List the modes of DBT and their functions.
• Explain the assumptions of clients and therapy in DBT.
• Discuss the therapist and client agreements in DBT.
• Explain the biosocial theory in DBT.
• Create effective Life Worth Living Goals.

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