Applied DBT Skills for Anxiety and Mood Disorders
Learn practical strategies and powerful interventions through comprehensive client demonstrations, illustrating the transformative impact of DBT Skills for mood disorders.
About the course
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14 hours | 12 months accessWho this course is for
For Mental Health & Health Professionals, CoachesMood disorders are highly prevalent and can be deeply debilitating and impair many areas of functioning. These include energy, motivation, thinking, mood, sleep, appetite, decision making, relationships, and work and school functioning.
Anxiety is one of the most common emotional states that also impairs multiple domains of functioning, including cognitive, social, physiological, and occupational/educational. The symptoms of anxiety occur across a range of not only the anxiety disorders but also mood and other disorders.
This course provides a clear, practical framework for applying DBT skills to address the mood and anxiety presentations you commonly see in your clinical practice. We will teach you how to address the avoidance that often maintains both anxiety and depressive symptoms, so clients learn that emotions are tolerable, not harmful, and do not last forever. We will also show how to activate your clients’ behaviors, to help them build back reinforcers, which will render social and task-oriented behaviors easier to initiate. We will teach you skills to help combat the biological factors and physical symptoms that contribute to these presentations as well. Also, you will gain practical strategies to reduce the impact of mood and anxiety-related symptoms and consequent emotional suffering.
Taught by DBT experts Alec Miller and Jill Rathus, this course includes clinical demonstrations, case-based instruction, and didactics on the principles, to help you confidently apply DBT skills to a broad spectrum of anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder symptoms. Regardless of your primary therapeutic approach, this course will help you super-charge your sessions with practical and powerful tools that can dramatically improve your clients’ lives.
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Meet Your Course Presenters
Dr. Jill Rathus co-developed Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) for adolescents and families, along with Alec Miller and Marsha Linehan. She is the co-author of the leading text books and treatment manuals for DBT with adolescents in clinical and school settings. Dr. Rathus is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Cognitive Behavioral Associates, a treatment and training center in New York. She is former Professor of Psychology at Long Island University, and is Visiting Professor at Shanghai Mental Health Center/Shanghai Jiao Tong School of Medicine, China. Dr. Rathus is a DBT-LBC Board of Certification-Certified clinician, and has trained thousands of mental health professionals worldwide.
Dr. Alec Miller co-developed Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) for adolescents and families, along with Jill Rathus and Marsha Linehan. He is co-author of the leading text books and treatment manuals for DBT with adolescents in clinical and school settings. He is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Cognitive and Behavioral Consultants (CBC), a treatment and training center in NY. He is also a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is a DBT-LBC Board of Certification-certified clinician as well as the Director of a DBT-LBC-certified program in NY. Dr. Miller has trained thousands of mental health professionals worldwide.
How This Course Helps You in Practice
Understand the nature of anxiety and mood disorders and how they lead to persistent suffering when untreated
Apply DBT skills from the five modules of mindfulness, distress tolerance, Emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and walking the middle path to these clinical presentations
Build motivation for clients to learn new behaviors to address symptoms of anxiety, depression, and bipolar symptoms
Teach clients to reduce emotional vulnerability and reactivity and increase positive emotions
Use DBT skills to reduce problematic emotional and behavioral avoidance and increase behavioral activation
Increase cognitive flexibility by increasing dialectical thinking and reducing maladaptive cognitions that maintain depressed and anxious mood
Learn specific strategies to address the range of impairing physiological symptoms that accompany anxiety and mood disorders
Teach effective interpersonal skills to build and enhance relationships and reduce social isolation
Learn from varied client presentations that demonstrate how DBT skills may be tailored to your clients
Course Format
This self-paced course includes:
11 practical modules focused on DBT skills for anxiety and mood disorders
Expert instruction with Alec Miller and Jill Rathus
Numerous therapy demonstrations with varied client presentations
12 months of access to review the material any time
This course is designed for therapists who:
Work with clients with anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder
Want practical DBT strategies to reduce maladaptive emotional and behavioral avoidance and activate new behaviors
Help clients get unstuck from persistent conditions
Need practical strategies to enhance your clients capacities regarding emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, distress tolerance, flexible thinking, and mental focus and awareness.
Value skills-based training grounded in real clinical application
