Training for DBT Therapists:
DBT SUPERVISION & CONSULTATION
Two-day online interactive training with Alan E. Fruzzetti, Ph.D. & Aditi Vijay, Ph.D.
Place:
Online via Zoom
Dates in 2023:
December 8 & 15 (12pm- 4pm, Eastern USA)
More to be scheduled
Training cost: US$350.00 per person for individual registration.
You will receive confirmation soon following registration and the Zoom link will be sent to you the week of the training.
A reduced rate is available for lower income participants. Contact us for details.
Attendance: This training is limited to the first 23 people who register.
Register: Please complete the registration form linked from the red buttons.
Training Description:
Ongoing consultation and/or supervision are core functions or components of comprehensive Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Their purposes or functions include increasing therapist motivation (decreasing burnout) and improving therapist skills in delivering the treatment well (adherence). Although supervision and consultation have similar targets, supervision occurs more often when there is a distinct experience and/or role difference between the supervisor and the person(s) being supervised, and consultation-to-the-therapist is more common among peers on a consultation team. However, there is considerable overlap between the two. In this training we will address both the common elements for both along with key aspects that are unique to supervision per se. Specifically, we will address: 1) participants' abilities to discriminate between more adhering and competently delivered DBT and less adherent DBT so that supervision and consultation targets are clear; 2) how supervisors can utilize both DBT principles and general learning principles to help trainees improve their adherence and competence; 3) how DBT therapists and supervisors can build and maintain an antiracism stance, both as a principle of treatment and in order to provide more inclusive and culturally appropriate treatment for diverse clients and their families; and 4) how to create both supervision and team consultation processes that improve outcomes. Teaching, discussion, demonstrations, role plays, and watching video of one or more sessions (re-enactments that do not include real clients on the video) will be utilized to make this training effective and fun for participants.
Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will practice and learn to use the DBT Session Rating Form to identify targets for supervision and consultation
2. Participants will practice and learn to apply DBT principles and strategies (acceptance/validation and change/problem solving) to increase adherence
3. Participants will practice and learn to apply DBT principles and strategies (acceptance/validation and change/problem solving; learning principles) to increase motivation and decrease or prevent burnout
4. Participants will practice and learn to apply an antiracism stance in their supervision
5. Participants will identify personal challenges/blind spots to increasing their effectiveness both as supervisors and as consultation team members
6. Participants will identify challenges to balancing consultation and supervision processes on team
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.
Presenters:
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.
Aditi Vijay, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in Dialectical Behavior Therapy and interventions with emerging adults. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Georgetown School of Medicine. Aditi has provided extensive training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy and consultation to DBT teams throughout the U.S. Her clinical and research interests focus on improving quality of life for adolescents and emerging adults with a focus on those who self-harm or experience chronic suicidal ideation and improving access to care for underserved populations. She also has considerable experience treating trauma-related problems and providing training and supervision in the effective treatment of trauma-related problems. Her current research focuses on clinical supervision and process and outcome research in Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Dr. Vijay is on the Board of Directors of the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder.
