When Therapy Blows Up: Treating Therapy Interfering Behavior Across Modes in DBT

This 8-hour FREE virtual training is for individuals who have been practicing DBT Individual Psychotherapy and/or DBT Skills Training in the Context of a comprehensive program. This training is designed to strengthen skills in keeping DBT adherent and treating the inevitable obstacles that occur in DBT Individual psychotherapy, DBT Skills Training Group, DBT coaching, DBT family interventions, and in our own consultation team.

This training is intended for Center of Innovation and Treatment Implementation Collaborative 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.

6.5 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.

• Describe the tasks when a client has life threatening behavior in pre-treatment.
• List the steps in the in-session dysfunctional behavior protocol.
• Conduct effective homework review in skills training group.
• Explain the protocol when a client has life threatening behavior during skills training groups.
• Discuss suicide interventions during a telephone consultation.
• Describe effective ways to intervene with the families during a suicide crisis.
• List the steps in treating consultation team interfering 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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