Getting Started in DBT: Core Principles & Strategies  ::  Download Brochure PDF

Shari Manning, Ph.D. is the perfect DBT Therapist/Trainer to help you and/or your team get started in DBT.  This course is open to any individual or team new to DBT. It is designed to teach the core principles, structures and strategies of DBT to the participants with immediate practice and feedback.  This course is an effective way of training new members on an existing team, beginning a new team or for private practitioners who want to form or join a DBT consultation team while still working in solo or group practices. 

2-day In-Person Training: July 19-20, 2012 at Riverview Hospital, Middletown, CT

For detailed course information and to register, please click on links below (blue text). 

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Doing DBT to Adherence and with Competence: An Advanced Course  ::  This course is already in progress. Registration is closed. 

Charles Swenson, M.D. is teaching this advanced course designed to help the DBT therapist bring his or her practice to the next level of adherence, competence, and effectiveness. Participants will be assumed to know the principles and strategies of DBT, its evidence base, its biosocial theory, and the initial structuring of the treatment with agreements, assumptions, functions and modes, and stages and targets.  The focus of the course will be on how to deepen one’s practical understanding of DBT and to engage it, session by session, with greater compassion, precision, and effectiveness. This training is available to any practicing DBT therapist or team wanting to improve their knowledge and application of the treatment. 

Online Video-based Class Dates: Wednesday, February 29 - Wednesday, May 23 (13 weeks)                                                  Online Video-based Class Time: 10:30am-12:00pm (west coast); 1:30pm-3:00pm (east coast)
2-day In-person Training: June 28-29, 2012 at Riverview Hospital, Middletown, CT