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DBT Skills 101: How to Teach Distress Tolerance and Interpersonal Effectiveness

Online
2.5 CE Hours
Clinical
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Description

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a skills-based approach widely used to treat various mental health concerns. DBT encompasses skills in four main categories: core mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. For clinicians to be effective at infusing DBT skills into their clinical practice, it is important for clinicians first to learn the skills of DBT and how to teach them to clients. In this presentation, participants will briefly review the theoretical components of DBT, learn distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness skills, and understand how to implement the skills with clients.

Target Audience
  • Counselors
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this presentation is for participants to gain knowledge in theoretical components of DBT, distress tolerance/interpersonal effectiveness skills, and how to implement the skills with clients.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Describe at least two theoretical components of DBT

  • Identify at least three of the distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness skills

  • Identify three ways distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness skills can be implemented with clients

CE Details
Introductory
Clinical

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development.

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 2.5 continuing education credits.

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

TPN.health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

CE Policy
Agenda
  • Waiting Room Opens
  • Workshop Begins
  • Workshop Ends
Note: Time designated for waiting room, breaks cannot be counted toward CE credit.
TPN.health and this educator have no conflicts of interest and have not received any commercial support for this program or its contents.
Staci Tessmer, M.A., LPCC-S, NCC, BC-TMH

Staci Tessmer, M.A., LPCC-S, NCC, BC-TMH, has over 10+ years of clinical, supervisory, and administrative experience at both the inpatient and outpatient levels of care. She has experience working with children, adolescents, and adult populations. Staci currently works as the Training Coordinator at Kent State University’s Counseling and Psychological Services, overseeing internal and external training programming and conducting therapy sessions with students.

Staci has been actively involved in counseling organizations since 2013, holding various leadership positions. Additionally, she has presented at numerous local, state, and national conferences and workshops on a variety of counseling topics. Staci also serves as adjunct faculty in the clinical mental health counseling programs for Kent State and Youngstown State University.

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