Training for DBT Therapists:
DBT WITH REACTIVE COUPLES
Four-day online interactive training with Alan E. Fruzzetti, Ph.D.
Time:
11:00am to 5:00pm U.S. Eastern Time each day (8am-2pm Pacific)
Place:
Online via Zoom
Dates in 2023:
April 20, 21, 27 & 28
More dates coming soon!
Training cost: US$700.00 per person for individual registration.
For groups of 3 or more people working on the same DBT team the cost is US$650.00 per person when registering as a team. Discount code details on the registration page and must be applied at time of registration. Please note that one person will need to register the team as a group, it is not possible to have people register separately and use the discount code; we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
You will receive confirmation soon following registration and the Zoom link will be sent to you the week of the training.
A limited number of reduced rate registrations are available for student trainees working on DBT teams. Contact us for details.
Attendance: This training is limited to the first 24 people who register.
Register: Please complete the registration form linked from the red buttons.
Training Description:
Relationship distress typically includes a lot of dysregulated emotion, including anger, hurt feelings, sadness, embarrassment, and worry, and can include out-of-control behaviors and sometimes very significant individual problems and distress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) has been shown in dozens of studies to be effective in treating the many problems associated with emotion dysregulation. Dr. Fruzzetti has adapted DBT for use with couples, parents, and families, with multiple studies demonstrating successful outcomes. In this training, he will teach and demonstrate: 1) how to think about couple transactions (and patterns) in a DBT way, with the role of emotion dysregulation clearly understood as a core or organizing principle in couple distress; 2) how to decrease invalidating responses, and increase both accurate expression and validating responses to reduce couple and individual distress; 3) how to use DBT couple interventions to organize and manage reactive or dysregulated partners in the session; 4) how to help partners learn emotion management and relationship skills to reduce aversive conflict, increase collaboration and build closeness and connection.
This approach has been shown to improve couple relationships in general, helping partners become less destructive, and more peaceful and loving.
There also will be opportunities to bring in cases for consultation, and for small group practices.
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe how emotion vulnerability and invalidation transact to create emotion dysregulation in couples, including problematic patterns
2. Build a treatment target hierarchy relevant to couples in distress
3. Conduct a “double chain” to understand how partner transactions evolve and contribute to problem behaviors, and identify points of intervention
4. Teach and coach relationship mindfulness, accurate expression, and validation
5. Teach and coach collaborative problem solving
6. Utilize the double chain to weave in these skills as solutions
7. Manage in-session conflict and dysregulation
CE Hours
Application for social work and psychologist continuing education credits have been submitted. Please contact us for the status of social work and psychologist CE accreditation.
Presenter:
Alan E. Fruzzetti, Ph.D. is Director of Training in Family Services and Director of DBT Adherence for 3East programs at McLean Hospital, and Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He received his B.A. from Brown University and M.S. & Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle. Alan has adapted and implemented Dialectical Behavior Therapy for multiple underserved populations and developed many successful DBT programs for people with BPD, other problems with emotion regulation, and programs for couples, parents, and families. His research focuses on the connections between severe psychopathology and interpersonal/family processes, and their interplay with emotion dysregulation. Dr. Fruzzetti is Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder, and on the Board of Directors of the Linehan Institute. He has authored well over 100 research and clinical papers and book chapters, two books, is the editor of the Guilford DBT Practice series, and has lectured and trained professionals and the public in more than two dozen countries in BPD, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and/or in family interventions. Alan is the co-creator (with Dr. Perry Hoffman) of the NEA-BPD Family Connections (FC) program for parents, partners, and other loved ones of people with BPD and related problems, and the new FC adaptation for parents with trauma related to suicidality in their loved ones. He has received many honors for research, teaching, and for community service, and is married with four children.
