DBT Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills Workshop
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DBT Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills Workshop

Sat, Aug 13th, 2022
10:00am – 12:15pm US Eastern Time
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About the Event

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a treatment originally created to treat borderline personality disorder (BPD). In recent years it has been increasingly used to treat many other disorders because of its usefulness in treating clients who struggle to manage emotions. This webinar series, led by Sheri Van Dijk, will explore the four modules of DBT skills (Core Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness), how this treatment can be used in your work with clients facing a broad range of conditions such as depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder, in which emotion dysregulation plays a key role; and strategies to teach these skills to your clients. Please view the "Agenda" section below to view the other webinars in this series.

Sheri is known for her humor and down-to-earth style, and her ability to de-mystify DBT, making it less intimidating and more user-friendly for clinicians to learn and incorporate into their practice. If you’ve been curious about DBT but have been too daunted to give it a try, this workshop series is for you!

This webinar in the series will provide an overview of the DBT Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills. Participants will learn about these skills, looking at ways to help clients improve their ability to communicate and find a healthier balance in their relationships and in their lives more generally

Live Event
This live online event will be held as a Zoom Webinar. Attendees will have the option to interact through features such as the Chat and Q&A, but cameras and microphones will not be enabled.

Live Event Instructor

Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, RSW

Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, RSW

Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, RSW, is a well-known mental health professional. She has advanced degrees from York University and the University of Toronto and has worked for over 15 years in the mental health field. Her extensive experience with and knowledge of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Mindfulness Practice has inspired her to write a number of books, and she regularly conducts training sessions for fellow professionals in these treatment modalities. Sheri worked at Southlake Regional Health Centre in an outpatient mental health clinic for 14 years, and now works full-time in her private practice

Registered with the College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers, Sheri is also a member of the Ontario Association of Social Workers. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family, and hiking with her dogs Tess and Oliver. Sheri loves to travel and scuba dive and is an avid reader. Some of her favourite authors are Anne Rice, Stephen King, Kelley Armstrong, Patricia Cornwell and Jonathan Kellerman.

Target Audience

This live interactive is intended for Behavioral Health professionals. It is appropriate for all levels of knowledge.

Learning Objectives

After taking this activity, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Teach clients to assertively communicate.
  2. 2 Define dialectical thinking and a balanced approach to relationships.
  3. 3 Define the role of mindfulness and behavior theory in relationships.
  4. 4 Instruct clients on how to make choices about relationships from their internal wisdom.

  1. Aron, E. N. (1996). The highly sensitive person. New York: Broadway Books.

  2. Brown, Julie F. (2015) The Emotion Regulation Skills System for Cognitively Challenged Clients: A DBT-Informed Approach. New York: The Guilford Press.

  3. Carson-Wong, A., Hughes, C. D., & Rizvi, S. L. (2018). The effect of therapist use of validation strategies on change in client emotion in individual dbt treatment sessions. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 9(2), 165.

  4. Harned, M. S., Korslund, K. E., & Linehan, M. M. (2014). A pilot randomized controlled trial of Dialectical Behavior Therapy with and without the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Prolonged Exposure protocol for suicidal and self-injuring women with borderline personality disorder and PTSD. Behaviour research and therapy, 55, 7-17.

  5. Linehan, M. M. (2014). DBT Skills Training Manual Second Edition. New York: Guilford Press

  6. Linehan, M. M. (1993a). Cognitive-behavioral treatment of borderline personality disorder. New York: Guilford Press.

  7. Linehan, M. M. (1997). Validation and psychotherapy. In A. Bohart & L. Greenberg (Eds.), Empathy reconsidered: New directions in psychotherapy, pp. 353–392. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association

  8. Linehan, M. M., Korslund, K. E., Harned, M. S., Gallop, R. J., Lungu, A., Neacsiu, A. D., ... & Murray-Gregory, A. M. (2015). Dialectical behavior therapy for high suicide risk in individuals with borderline personality disorder: a randomized clinical trial and component analysis. JAMA psychiatry, 72(5), 475-482.

  9. McMain, S. F., Guimond, T., Barnhart, R., Habinski, L., & Streiner, D. L. (2017). A randomized trial of brief dialectical behaviour therapy skills training in suicidal patients suffering from borderline disorder. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 135(2), 138-148.

  10. Miller, A. L., Rathus, J. H., &Linehan, M. M. (2007). Dialectical behavior therapy with suicidal adolescents. New York: Guilford Press.

  11. Perepletchikova, Francheska (in press). Adapting Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Children in Residential Care (DBT-C): https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01547052

  12. Van Dijk, Sheri (2009). The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Bipolar Disorder. Oakland: New Harbinger Publications

  13. Atara D. Hiller & Christopher D. Hughes (2022) Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Adolescents: 13. Treatment Outcomes in an Outpatient Community Setting, Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

  14. Fitzpatrick, S., Bailey K., Rizvi S., (2020) Changes in Emotions Over the Course of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and the Moderating Role of Depression, Anxiety, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Behavior Therapy, Volume 51, Issue 6, Pages 946-957, ISSN 0005-7894, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2019.12.009.

  15. Cooperman, N., Rizvi, S.L., Hughes, C.D. & Williams, J.M. (2019) Field Test of a Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training–Based Intervention for Smoking Cessation and Opioid Relapse Prevention in Methadone Treatment, Journal of Dual Diagnosis, 15:1, 67-73, DOI: 10.1080/15504263.2018.1548719

  16. Rizvi, S.L. and Fitzpatrick, S. (2021), Changes in suicide and non-suicidal self-injury ideation and the moderating role of specific emotions over the course of dialectical behavior therapy. Suicide Life Threat Behav, 51: 429-445. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12691

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Agenda times are listed in US Eastern Time. That is 3 hours later than US Pacific Time. The event starts at 7:00am US Pacific Time.

This DBT Webinar series consists of four 2-hour webinars. If you are interested in registering for the entire series, please see the other webinars below: DBT Core Mindfulness Skills –April 15th DBT Distress Tolerance Skills – May 27 DBT Emotion Regulation Skills – June 17

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