Continuing Education
| DBT: Advanced Training in the Four Skills Modules | ||||||||||||||||||||
In this advanced didactic course, participants will learn how to use the four skills modules of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) with their clients. The DBT model of structuring treatment will be reviewed, and commitment strategies that strengthen the therapeutic alliance, keep patients in therapy and increase the likelihood for behavioral change will be introduced. Prerequisite required: DBT in Everyday Practice or familiarity with DBT principles and protocols. This course is part of our DBT series. For information about this series, click here. Instructor Biographies  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 has been working with patients with borderline personality disorder. With extensive experience providing individual and group therapy using dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) techniques, he also provides training to psychiatric residents and other staff on DBT.  Deborah Mitchell, PhD, began her training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) in 2000. In 2002, she started co-facilitating skills groups in private practice and has been working within the DBT model since. In August of 2006, Deborah co-founded the San Francisco DBT Center. In addition to specializing in individual and group therapy using DBT techniques, she has provided DBT training for Bay Area clinicians as well as psychiatric residents at California Pacific Medical Center.For more information on the San Francisco DBT Center, please visit their website at www.sfdbt.com. |
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