Continuing Education
| Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): An Introduction | ||||||||||||||||||||
This course provides an overview of DBT and its application to the everyday clinical practice of psychotherapy. What sets DBT apart from other standard treatment approaches to Borderline Personality Disorder is its emphasis on dialectical thinking and its unique blend of eastern Zen practices of mindfulness and radical acceptance with western cognitive and behavioral technologies of change. The etiology of Borderline Personality Disorder and coping strategies developed and reinforced throughout one’s lifetime will be discussed in the context of understanding the specific treatment approaches used in DBT. The four modules of DBT (mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness) will be introduced as well as the applicability of DBT to other patient populations across a wide variety of clinical settings. Instructor Biography  Mark Rosenthal, LCSW, has been a clinical social worker at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute Partial Hospitalization Program since 2000 and has a private practice in San Francisco, where his primary focus and interest has been working with patients with Borderline Personality Disorder. With extensive experience providing individual and group therapy using Dialectical Behavioral Therapy techniques, he also provides training to psychiatric residents and other staff on Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.For information about our Dialectical Behavior Therapy series, click here. |
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