September 30 - October 2, 2025
Price:$945.00 per person
Early Bird Pricing: $895 per person until August 30, 2025

DBT Skills in Schools: Skills Training for Emotional Problem Solving for Adolescents (DBT STEPS-A) is a universal social emotional learning (SEL) curriculum designed for middle/high school students in educational settings. The DBT STEPS-A curriculum is designed to help adolescents develop coping strategies and decision-making abilities to use in school and into the future. The DBT STEPS-A curriculum is based on the skills of comprehensive Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) that have shown to be effective with both adults and adolescents experiencing mild to severe levels of emotional and behavioral difficulties. The skills have been adapted for a universal, nonclinical, student population. The curriculum is designed to be taught at Tier I of a multi-tier or RTI system, however, it has been effective at all levels of MTSS implementation.

The training design of DBT STEPS-A curriculum is to establish four basic elements necessary in implementing the curriculum effectively:

A. Background and Development of the DBT STEPS-A curriculum

B. Structure and Implementation Considerations

C. Overview and demonstration of DBT STEPS-A lessons

D. Preparation and participant practice of teaching DBT STEPS-A lessons

Please note the DBT Skills in Schools: Skills Training for Emotional Problem Solving for Adolescents (DBT STEPS-A; Mazza et al., 2016) curriculum is required for this training. The manual can be ordered directly through Guilford Press (for large orders) or Amazon (for smaller orders).

Please read the overview section of the curriculum before class.

DBT in Schools, LLC will provide registered participants with additional training materials prior to the start date.

CE Hours

1. Participants attending the entire training may receive a certificate for 16.5 CE Hours.

2. 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.

3. This program is Approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Approval # 12/31/2024) for 886826240-8561 16.5 for continuing education contact hours.