 Deborah Mitchell, PhD & Mark Rosenthal, LCSW
All classes in San Francisco: Introduction to Dialectical Behavior Therapy ~ October 31, 2008 ~ 9:00am-4:00pm ~ 6 Hrs Phone Call-In ~ Wednesday, December 3, 2008 ~ 11:30am-1:00pm Advanced Dialectical Behavior Therapy ~ Friday, January 23, 2009 ~ 9:00am-4:00pm ~ 6 Hrs Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Experiential Training ~ Friday, February 20, 2009 ~ 9:00am-4:00pm ~ 6 Hrs Dr. Deborah Mitchell began her training in DBT 2000. In 2001, she began co-facilitating skills groups in private practice and has been passionately learning and working within the DBT model since. In August of 2006, Deborah co-founded the San Francisco DBT Center. In addition, she had extensive training in psychological assessment and psychodynamic psychotherapy. Mark Rosenthal, LCSW is a founding member of the San Francisco DBT Center. He was introduced to DBT over 10 years ago and began working with the skills in his clinical work with the homeless population. From 2000 to 2006, Mark worked at the Partial Hospitalization Program at University of California, San Francisco’s Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute (LPPI). At LPPI, Mark did individual DBT with patients and supported the skills developed in the DBT skills group on the unit. He also provides DBT training to clinicians. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (or DBT), developed by Marsha M Linehan, PhD at the University of Washington, is a comprehensive cognitive-behavioral approach, integrated with eastern practices of mindfulness for the treatment of borderline personality disorder (or BPD), especially for those with chronic patterns of life threatening, impulsive, and other self-destructive behaviors related to problems in emotion regulation. This seven hour seminar will provide an overview of the principles and specific protocols in DBT via didactic lecture, clinical vignettes and role play. All four modules of standard DBT will be introduced. A special emphasis in this class will be placed in current research into the role of DBT in the treatment of PTSD. This includes findings related to the role of DBT with patients who attempt some form of self-injury. Phone Call-In: An additional CE Hour is optionally available at no additional cost for students registered for this class in a Phone Conference, designed to enable participants to ask follow-up questions about DBT to the instructor |
