Advanced Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Facilitated by: Dr. Martin Bohus, MD and Dr. Shelley McMain, PhD, C.Psych.
Join this dynamic and interactive online course, featuring two internationally renowned DBT clinicians and researchers.
About this workshop:
This two-day case-based learning workshop focuses on Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Complex PTSD (DBT-PTSD). Through didactic learning and selected case presentations, the training will address topics presenting the greatest challenges for participants.
DBT-PTSD is tailored to treat adult PTSD after childhood abuse, including those with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Most of these people show severe problems in emotion regulation, negative self-concept, dysfunctional memory processing and maladaptive social interaction. To target these core domains, DBT-PTSD merges multiple evidence-based elements: DBT principles, trauma-specific cognitive and exposure-based techniques, compassion focused interventions and behavior change procedures. The treatment program is designed to be delivered in a residential program (three-months) or in an outpatient setting (45 weeks). Data from a multi-center RCT under outpatient conditions (n=200; 100%female) showed significant improvement in all relevant domains as well as significant superiority of DBT-PTSD versus Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT).
DBT-PTSD is based on a psycho-social model. Typical dysfunctional behaviors can predominantly be understood as strategies to avoid or escape from trauma-associated primary emotions like powerlessness, threat, anxiety, disgust, humiliation or sexual arousal. Corroborated by dysfunctional cognitive assumptions, dysfunctional behaviors such as self-injury, suicidal ideation, dissociation, or intoxication and problematic secondary emotions such as shame, guilt, self-hatred, or chronic anger develop over time into problematic self-concepts that strongly impair quality of life. DBT-PTSD aims to help people: a) Revise their fear of trauma-associated primary emotions, b) Question whether secondary emotions like guilt and shame fit the facts, and c) Radically accept the fact of trauma in their lives in order to establish a life worth living.
COURSE PREREQUISITE:
This course is intended for experienced clinicians who have completed DBT-PTSD Part I and want additional training and consultation in applying the skills and strategies of the DBT-PTSD model.
Learning objectives:
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Implement the strategies and principles of DBT-PTSD in your clinical practice with greater adherence and competence.
- Gain experience in consultation and make evidence-based clinical decisions when working with clients.
- Prepare a case formulation following The Old and The New Path Model.
- Evaluate the use of the DBT-PTSD model within your own and others’ cases.
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This workshop has been accredited by the Ontario Psychological Association for 10 CE credits.