Accelerating Therapy with DBT Interventions: Breakthrough Techniques with Your Toughest Clients

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Britt H. Rathbone, MSSW, LCSW-C Related seminars and products

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Britt Rathbone, MSSW, LCSW-C, is a nationally recognized clinician, trainer, author, and practice leader specializing in the treatment of adolescents and their families. Since 1985, he has worked with young people experiencing complex, challenging, and difficult-to-treat mental health concerns. He is the founder and director of Capital Youth Services in Bethesda, Maryland, where he leads a multidisciplinary clinical practice grounded in evidence-based care.

 

Mr. Rathbone has taught graduate-level social work students and provides training to mental health professionals on dialectical behavior therapy, adolescent engagement, and effective treatment for complex clinical presentations. Washingtonian magazine has repeatedly recognized him as one of the Washington, DC, area’s top therapists for adolescents and group therapy. Known for his engaging and practical teaching style, his trainings consistently receive excellent evaluations.

 

He is the coauthor of Dialectical Behavior Therapy for At-Risk Adolescents, What Works with Teens: A Professional’s Guide to Engaging Authentically with Adolescents to Achieve Lasting Change, and Parenting a Teen Who Has Intense Emotions.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Britt Rathbone is the founder and director of Capital youth Services dba Rathbone & Associates, the director of Washington Center for Mental Health Training, and a faculty member at the University of Maryland School of Social Work. He receives royalties as a published author. He receives a speaking honorarium, product, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Britt Rathbone is a volunteer for DBT- Linehan Board of Certification. He is a member of the Greater Washington Society for Clinical Social Work and the National Association of Social Workers.

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Objectives

1. Assess how to create discrepancy with values, goals, and behaviors to move therapy forward. 
2. Appraise specific evidence-based tools to quickly engage clients in therapy and determine how best to target symptoms. 
3. Determine how to develop skill with behavior chain analysis to understand the function of behavior and apply it to therapy to improve outcomes.     
4. Demonstrate how to create movement and flow in therapy using both acceptance-based and change-based strategies.

Outline

• Learn how to create discrepancy with values, goals, and behaviors to move therapy forward. 
  • Learn to quickly identify meaningful value-driven goals with clients. 
  • Identify behaviors that clients engage in that get them stuck. 
  • Effectively highlight conflict between behaviors and goals to jumpstart motivation to change. 
• Describe specific evidence-based tools to quickly engage clients in therapy and determine how best to target symptoms. 
  • Establish appetitive long-term goals that resonate with clients and pull them towards meaningful change. 
  • Translate long term goals into specific therapy tasks to bring about change. 
  • Create a relationship between equals that engages client in the therapy process. 
  • Develop an organized plan for targeting symptoms to maximize therapy effectiveness. 
• Recognize how to develop skill with behavior chain analysis to understand the function of behavior and apply it to therapy to improve outcomes.     
  • Learn when to use a behavior chain analysis to collaboratively assess factors that reinforce problematic behaviors. 
  • Increase willingness to target challenging behaviors by effectively and accurately  identifying problematic behaviors and teaching effective replacement behaviors. 
• Describe how to create movement and flow in therapy using both acceptance-based and change-based strategies. 
  • Apply acceptance-based strategies including validation and mindfulness in an effective manner to soothe clients and manage intense emotion dysregulation. 
  • Aggressively target change using problem solving, contingencies, skills training, exposure, and cognitive modification. 
  • Artfully use dialectical treatment strategies to break through power struggles, resistance, and treatment interfering behaviors. 

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Psychotherapists
• Therapists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Case Managers
• Physicians
• Nurses
• Other Mental Health Professionals

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