DBT-informed care for trans*/NB/gender-expansive and LGBQIA clients

Join us in-person or virtually to learn how to provide DBT-informed care to trans*/NB/gender-expansive and LGBQIA clients!

DBT-informed care for trans*/NB/gender-expansive and LGBQIA clients

This day-long training (totaling 6 hours of instruction time) will introduce clinicians to Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) with special consideration for supporting trans, two-spirit, nonbinary, gender-expansive, and 2SLGBQIA+ clients. Clinicians will gain an understanding of particular clinical presentations for whom DBT is most helpful, basic tenets of behaviorism and how they apply in clinical contexts, and evidence-based strategies for supporting clients experiencing suicidal ideation and/or engaging in self-harm. Clinicians will learn and practice teaching key skills in all four modules of DBT and learn to support clients creating life worth living goals. By the end of the training, therapists will be more equipped to provide competent trauma-informed DBT-informed care to their clients, including 2SLGBTQIA individuals, couples, and families.

**Join us in-person or virtually; note that we will have frequent small-group break-outs to apply lesson and practice skills. The training will be recorded but CEs can only be granted to those who attend live (in-person or virtually). Lunch provided for those who attend in-person.**

This course is approved for CE credit through the Maryland Psychological Association. The Maryland Psychological Association (MPA) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. MPA maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Learning Objectives:

The workshop is designed to help participants:

1. Describe best practices for providing trauma-informed culturally appropriate DBT-informed care to trans, two-spirit, nonbinary, gender-expansive and LGBIA+ clients.

2. Describe the clinical presentations for which Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is especially helpful.

3. Explain the biosocial theory of Borderline Personality Disorder to clients in a trauma-informed way.

4. Describe the stages the of DBT and adapt treatment according to client's stage of healing.

5. Explain dialectics and how they can shape a queer lens for therapeutic care.

6. Describe non-carceral behaviorist care for clients experiencing suicidal ideation or engaging in self-harming behaviors with an understanding of assessment, support and accountability.

7. Describe and teach mindfulness skills, key distress tolerance skills, key interpersonal effectiveness skills, and key emotion regulation skills to clients.

6. Apply best practices for shaping the first four commitment sessions and phone coaching.

7. Apply best practices for supporting clients creating Life Worth Living Goals.

Agenda overview:

9:45am Arrival, settling in, making tea

10am: Mindfulness exercise, introductions

10:15am: Interactive presentation on intro to DBT (cases for whom it is most helpful, understanding behaviorism, clinical considerations for 2SLGBTQ people)

11:20am: Break (10 minutes)

11:30am: Interactive presentation on using DBT to support clients w/suicidal ideation, building life worth living goals, including stretch breaks and small group engagement

1pm: Lunch

1:45pm: Presentation on skills, including stretch breaks and small group engagement

3pm: Break (15 minutes)

3:15pm: Presentation on skills, including stretch breaks and practice teaching skills w/partners

4:15pm: Quick break (5 minutes)

4:20pm: Presentation and practice teaching skills

5:15 – 5:30pm: Final summary of considerations for 2SLGBTQIA populations discussed today (woven throughout previous topics).