Professional Learning Center

Dialetical Behavioral Therapy

This session will run from 9am - Noon. Registration and coffee will begin at 8:30am. The workshop will be held at the Coalition's offices located in lower Manhattan at 90 Broad St., 8th Fl. Directions can be found by following the "Contact Us" link on the left.

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Sessions

Introduction to Dialetical Behavioral Therapy

December 1, 2009 | 9am - Noon

Through the teaching of skills and the managment of motivation, the patient is helped to make essential, often life and death, behavioral and emotional changes, in the context of a respectful and validating relationship. Dozens of controlled and quasi-experimental research studies support the use of this treatment with BPD patients, and patients from other diagnostic groups (eating disorders, substance abuse, elderly depressed, veterans with trauma) have been studied as well.

The workshop will include:

� An introduction to the theoretical underpinnings of DBT including Behaviorism, Zen and Dialectics
� A description of the biosocial theory for understanding Borderline Personality Disorder
� A description of the framework of DBT including the modes and functions of the treatment
� An introduction to the basics of the individual therapy modality, including the Change, Validation and Dialectical Strategies
� An introduction to the four modules of skills training: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Interpersonal Effectiveness and Emotion Regulation

This workshop will be presented by Christine Foertsch, PhD who was intensively trained in DBT in 1993 and, since 1994, has been conducting workshops throughout the US and abroad for Behavioral Tech, LLC.

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demand for the workshop/meeting.**