DBT in Action

Teaching DBT Skills with Psychodrama, Sociodrama and Role Play

April 13, 2012

Location:
Cambridge, Mass.

Trainer: Rebecca Walters, MS LMHC LCAT TEP

~Space is limited...register early to avoid being closed out~

This workshop is NOT an introduction to DBT

Dialectical Behavior Therapy was developed by Marsha Linehan, PhD, as a treatment for chronically suicidal individuals. It is now being used as an empirically validated treatment for individuals with many different diagnoses. In addition to meeting with a therapist for individual sessions, clients take part in DBT skill groups where they learn and strengthen the skills necessary to regulate emotion, tolerate emotional distress, become more effective in interpersonal conflicts and control attention to develop mindfulness. Skills trainers who lack a background in experiential therapies tend to provide explicit instructions regarding the skills, discussion of the skills, and offer handouts and homework sheets. The work is often then experienced by group members as mostly cognitive and didactic. Many times the client experiences the material as dry or difficult to learn.

Skills training groups differ when someone is trained in psychodrama. There is active engagement that assists in the learning process. Learning the skills and practicing them in action help clients to acquire and remember the skills in ways that can be lively, creative, practical and fun!

The nature of psychodrama is to incorporate action based learning and body-mind awareness,.Psychodrama recognizes that to find adaptive behavior we have to be able to identify feelings and in order to identify feelings we need to enter into the body and mind and the time and space in which those feelings happen . After the feelings are identified and experienced, the adaptive behaviors or skills must be practiced. Psychodrama offers experiential learning of core mindfulness, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and distress tolerance as well expanding role repertoire and increasing comfort with play, As participants practice accessing their "wise minds" by becoming their wise minds, rather than talking about them, they can develop new and more effective roles.

During this training you will learn how to apply psychodramatic and sociodramatic techniques to teaching the Core skills of

a.. Mindfulness
b.. Distress Tolerance
c.. Emotional Regulation
d.. Interpersonal communication

This workshop is NOT an intro to DBT. It assumes familiarity through formal training or through working in a DBT program. It is also appropriate for those without DBT training but who have advanced training in psychodrama . It is not intended to replace training in either method. The goal is to give DBT Skill Group leaders some new and tested methods for teaching the skills and/or to give psychodramatists some new possibilities for applying the skills they already know.

This workshop/training offers 6.5 CEUs toward national credentialing by National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors NAADAC, National Board of Certified Counselors and towards recertification requirements for the National Registry of Group Psychotherapists and towards Psychodrama Certification and Drama Therapy registration.

Many of our students who are social workers have had these hours accepted towards their social work CEU requirements, but that is on a state by state basis.

$135 if registration and fee are postmarked by March 30, $160 after.

To Register: Please send a check made out to HVPI to:
HVPI
68 DuBois Road
New Paltz, NY 12561
.Include a piece of paper with your name, phone number, email address and regular address and the name of the workshop.

It is now possible to pay with a major credit card. Do not send credit card numbers to us.
Contact HVPI for more information.

Refund policy: 4 weeks notice: 100% refund
2 weeks notice: 50% credit towards future HVPI trainings
THERE WILL BE NO REFUNDS OR CREDIT WITH LESS THAN TWO WEEKS NOTICE

This workshop/training offers CEUs toward national credentialing by National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors NAADAC) and are accepted by NYS OASAS, National Board of Certified Counselors and towards recertification requirements for the National Registry of Group Psychotherapists.

This workshop/training offer hours towards certification by the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy.

Trainer: Rebecca Walters, MS, LMHC (Licensed Mental Health Counselor), LCAT (Licensed Creative Arts Therapist), and TEP, is the co-director of the Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute since 1989. She was a psychodramatist at Four Winds Psychiatric Hospital, Katonah, NY for over twenty five years and recently retired as the Director of Child and Adolescent Psychodrama Services where she ran six DBT in Action skills groups a week with adolescents. She also supervised the psychodrama internship program at Four Winds.

Rebecca is a sought after international trainer and is known for her expertise in the use of action methods with children and adolescents. She has brought her well received training seminars on the use of action methods with children and teenagers to conferences and training institutes throughout the US and abroad. She has served on the faculty of Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyer College and is currently consultant to MD Anderson Cancer Center's I*CARE, a program for Interpersonal Communication and Relationship Enhancement that is a program of the Department of Faculty Development dedicated to improving the communication among cancer patients, their families and their providers.

Rebecca was an elected member of the Executive Council of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama, an organization in which she is a Fellow. She is the 2010 recipient of their Hannah Weiner Awarded which honors her years of service to the ASGPP. She is the current president of the Hudson Valley Chapter of the ASGPP.

Rebecca is certified as a Trainer, Educator and Practitioner by the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy.