October 7-8, 2025

Price:$695.00
Early Bird Pricing: $645 through September 6, 2025

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 as well as 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” when needed during the school day in order 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.

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

If ordering through Guilford Press, please use the coupon code AU2E for 15% off. Guilford Press does not send books as quickly as Amazon, so be sure to give yourself a couple of weeks for delivery.

• Please read the overview section of the curriculum prior to class.

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

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