This class is now full as of February 1st, 2012.
Course Dates & Times
Wednesdays at 9-10am Pacific/noon-1 pm Eastern on February 8 & 22, March 7 & 21, April 4 & 25
Course Description
Deliberate practice can improve your team's consultation skills and remedy some of the inevitable difficulties that happen when groups of people discuss complicated problems, with high emotion, under time pressure.
In this six-session online course, you will learn a series of practice exercises designed to strengthen DBT peer consultation skills. Class meetings are interspersed with off weeks you use to apply what you have learned. During the online meetings, you and other participants work together as a DBT consultation team with Kelly Koerner serving as the consultation team leader. As team leader, she will model and lead the group through a series of exercises to enhance consultation skills. Then on the off weeks you apply what you've learned by leading the practice exercises with your own home team. We will work on exercises that address the following six themes:
1. Therapy for the Therapist: Conceptualizing Where the Therapist Needs Help
2. How to Make Clear Consultation Requests
3. Keeping the Balance
4. Keeping the Focus
5. Keeping Usefully Divergent vs. Unhelpfully Polarized
6. Giving and Receiving Hard-to-Hear Feedback
Objectives: By the end of the course, you will be able to:
* Better conceptualize where the therapist needs help as s/he asks for consultation
* Help team members make clearer consultation requests
* Redirect unproductive team consultations into focused, balanced, usefully divergent conversations
* Help team members give and receive hard-to-hear feedback
Level: Intermediate to advanced knowledge and experience using DBT strategies
Prerequisite: Have team willing to let you lead them thru the practice exercises you learn during the course.
Technical requirements: To attend the web conferences you will need a phone and computer with high-speed internet access.
Enrollment: Sign-up is first come, first-served.
Price: $200 US
Course Leader: Kelly Koerner, PhD, is Clinical Faculty at the University of Washington and Creative Director & CEO of the Evidence-Based Practice Institute, a social enterprise that helps practitioners learn and use evidence-based mental health care practices. She is an expert clinician, clinical supervisor and trainer in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and author of the recent book, Doing Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A Practical Guide.
Cancellations, Substitutions, and Refunds
Because online education is new for many of us, EBPI has 100% satisfaction guarantee. You may cancel your subscription to a course at any time. If you are not completely satisfied with your educational experience, we will refund your registration fee in full. Simply contact us, describe what was dissatisfying so that we have a chance to improve our offerings and we will refund your registration fee.
Accreditation Statements & Continuing Education Information
FYI: Licensing and continuing education requirements vary by state. Please contact your state's regulatory authority to verify if this course meets your licensing and/or continuing education requirements.
Psychologists: The Evidence-Based Practice Institute (EBPI) is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. EBPI maintains responsibility for the program and its content. EBPI has allocated 6 hours of CE within APA guidelines. After you successfully complete a program (full attendance), your CE certificate will be emailed to you.
