January 29-30, 2025

Price:$695.00
Early Bird Pricing: $645 until December 30, 2024

7:00 am - 2:15 pm Pacific Time

Live Via Zoom

This 2-day training will provide school mental health staff with an overview of how Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and strategies can be provided within the school environment using a MTSS model. School mental health staff will be taught how to identify student goals and behavioral targets for counseling sessions and the rationale of using a chain analysis as a method of assessment and guide to determining effective solutions. Additionally, participants will be provided step-by-step processes for providing skills coaching (based on DBT STEPS-A skills) to students “on the fly” during the school day to increase the amount of time students spend in the classroom. Participants will learn how the invalidating environment can impact emotion dysregulation, and will be taught validation skills and how they can be used to impact school culture.

Daily Schedule - Pacific Time Zone

Detailed schedules for all US Time Zones will be available with training materials.

7:00 – 8:30 Morning Session #1

8:30 –8:45 Break

8:45 – 9:30 Morning Session #3

9:30 – 9:35 Mini Break

9:35 – 10:30 Morning Session #3

10:30 – 11:15 Lunch

11:15 – 12:15 Afternoon Session #1

12:15 – 12:20 Mini Break

12:20 – 1:10 Afternoon Session #2

1:10 – 1:25 Break

1:25 – 2:05 Afternoon Session #3

2:05 – 2:15 Q/A and Evaluations

Learning Objectives

• Understand the rationale for the different applications of DBT in the school context.

• Understand the modes and requirements for various applications of DBT in the school context.

• Understand and use DBT approaches to goal setting and targeting.

• Participants will be able to use chain analysis as a method of assessment, and to identify possible solutions with students.

• Participants will be able to use the biosocial model of emotion dysregulation to conceptualize their students' difficulties.

• Participants will learn a sample of DBT STEPS-A skills that can be taught to students during counseling sessions.

The DBT SKILLS IN SCHOOLS (DBT STEPS-A) manual is required for training.

Please order well ahead of training.  Please read the overview section of the book. 

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Guilford Press: https://www.guilford.com/books/DBT-Skills-in-Schools/Mazza-Dexter-Mazza-Miller-Rathus/9781462525591

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Continuing Education

• Participants attending the entire training may receive a certificate for 11 CE Hours.

• DBT in Schools, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7064. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. DBT in Schools, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

• This program is Approved by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), Approval #886826240-7592 for 11 continuing education contact hours. 

• DBT in Schools, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work (NYSED SW)as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0838. Contact Hours: 11 Educational Methods: Lecture, Multimedia, Experiential Activities 

• DBT in Schools, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's Office of Teaching Initiatives (OTI:NYSED)as an approved sponsor of CTLE for Professional Classroom Teachers, School Leaders and Level III Teaching Assistants. I certify that the individual listed above completed the CTLE cited above pursuant to Subpart 80-6 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education. NYSED Approved CTLE Sponsor ID #23849. Number of Hours Awarded: 11