Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

OVERVIEW

This 4-week (32 hours) course, offered through the Centre for MindBody Health, provides a comprehensive examination of DBT-PTSD based on a psycho-social model. Within this model, dysfunctional behaviors are understood as strategies to avoid or escape from trauma-associated primary emotions like powerlessness, threat, anxiety, disgust, humiliation or sexual arousal. The model posits that these emotions are corroborated by dysfunctional cognitive assumptions and dysfunctional behaviors such as self-injury, suicidal ideation, dissociation or intoxication and that problematic secondary emotions such as shame, guilt, self-hatred or chronic anger develop over time into problematic self-concepts which impair quality of life.

DBT-PTSD primarily aims to help patients: 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. The treatment program is designed to be delivered in a residential program (three-months) or in an outpatient setting (45 weeks).

This 4-week (32 hours) course provides comprehensive training in DBT-PTSD including a manual. The course also fulfills the prerequisite for enrolling in future Advanced Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder workshops.

AT THE CONCLUSION OF THIS TRAINING, YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:

• Describe the basic psychosocial and neurobehavioral principles of complex PTSD
• Implement the principles of DBT-PTSD within your clinical practice
• Develop an individualized trauma model
• Teach your client skills for dissociation, distress tolerance, and regulation of trauma-related emotions
• Conduct in-sensu exposure
• Help your clients create a life worth living

Registrants will retain access to the course material and recordings of all classes for 30 days after the course training concludes. All registrants will be able to download core content (PPT or PDF) and view recordings of classes. Class recordings cannot be downloaded.

PRESENTERS:

DETAILS AT A GLANCE

Dates: April 2022 (Including April 4+5;11+12;18+19;25+26)

Webinar Times: 9.00am – 1.00pm EDT

Delivery: Online. This course has a webinar component which will be recorded for review.

Audience: Multi-disciplinary mental health professionals interested in treating complex PTSD using evidence-based principles and procedures. Basic knowledge of DBT is recommended.

COURSE FEES

EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT: $999 CDN + HST = $1,128.87

EARLY BIRD DEADLINE: MAR. 4, 2022

REGULAR FEE: $1,099 CDN + HST = $1,241.87

STUDENT FEE: $999 CDN + HST = $1,128.87

*Students must submit a copy/scan of their valid student ID or confirmation of enrolment to: cmbhdbtworkshops@gmail.com

**A 10% discount is available for groups of 5+ registering at the same time.

CONTINUING EDUCATION (CE) CREDITS:

• OPA: Approved for 28 CE credits for psychological practitioners.

• MDPAC: Approved for 28 hours of MDPAC Group CE credits and 4 hours of MDPAC CCI credits(automatically calculated when MDPAC member submits Group CE hours).

CANCELLATION POLICY: We will allow refunds that are requested 30 days prior to the event start date. Attendees can request a refund through Eventbrite.

Refunds will not be issued after March 5, 2022. CMBH reserves the right to cancel workshops due to unforeseen circumstances.