Workshop Content
During the Foundations in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) workshop, participants can expect to develop a level of knowledge where they will have an overall understanding of DBT, management of emotion dysregulation, and be able to observe the key principles of DBT. Participants will also be expected to gain an understanding of the standard content and processes of DBT.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Introducing Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) to clients.
- Explaining the biosocial theory behind DBT.
- Teaching the middle path skills of dialectics, behavioural change, and validation.
- Structure treatment according to the level of severity and prioritise treatment targets.
- Orientating to emotion dysregulation.
- Enhance motivation and commitment to treatment goals.
- Coach clients through obstacles that arise during treatment.
- Explore the structure of both a DBT and DBT informed approach.
- Understanding of the role of commitment, skills group, individual therapy, phone coaching and consultation team.
Our facilitators have extensive experience in running DBT and DBT informed programs and will facilitate this workshop in a lecture-style with some interactive discussions to ensure knowledge of practice-based implementations of DBT.
Frequently Asked Questions
We have kept an eye on the Australian and international market for continuing professional development and have priced our workshops below that of many competitors. We currently do not receive government funding to deliver our workshops.
The most cost-effective way to register for one of CMHE’s workshops is to do so early. The dates and prices for our workshops are non-negotiable. Student places and groups of 5 or more are only offered at the early bird rate until two weeks before each workshop.
- Pre-December Early Bird Registration $195 incl. GST (35% Discount)
- Early Registrations $239 incl. GST (20% discount until 2 weeks before the workshop)
- Last-Minute Registrations $299 incl. GST (Full price within 2 weeks of the workshop)
We have been delivering workshops since 1999 and have trialed a range of approaches including printing materials and providing them electronically to support all attendees’ development. To keep our prices low and avoid printing extensive resources, our service provides online access to all materials from this workshop via our CMHE Academy website.
If not having a printout of workshop resources prior to the workshop impacts your capacity to participate in this workshop, please contact our admin team at admin@dbtinstitute.com.au and they will send you a pdf version of the slides (no cost). Alternately, a workshop manual can be printed by our team and sent to you at the cost of $15 (includes postage).
No, we do not provide lunch for participants attending our workshops and courses. We do however arrange tea, coffee, and water from the beginning of each full-day workshop until the lunch break. Some locations also offer morning tea at an affordable rate so do offer morning tea at times.
Participants are given the option of a longer lunch or to order lunch at the morning tea break from local establishments and have their meal delivered to the training room.
We provide an electronic certificate to all participants of our workshops. Certificates can be downloaded from CMHE Academy and if you ever need to print them again you can do so from your CMHE Academy account.
Each year the Centre for Mental Health Education provides CPD opportunities to over 1,000 mental health professionals who claim their education with CMHE as CPD hours. All mental health professionals attending our CPD opportunities are eligible to claim CPD hours if the course/workshop/retreat is relevant to their work as mental health or counselling professionals. There is legislation and AHPRA acknowledgement of this very statement.
To record a professional development activity towards your CPD hours, members of mental health professional and counselling bodies are required to ensure the activity is relevant to them and is consistent with the categories defined in your particular professional body’s CPD Policy.
Health practitioners registered with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency must undertake continuing professional development (CPD). The CPD requirements of each National Board are detailed in the Registration Standards for each profession, published on each Board’s website (see below links for AHPRA CPD Statements). For professions not registered under AHPRA, their associations have professional development requirements.
Centre for Mental Health Education (CMHE) and our affiliates no longer seek the external endorsement of mental health professionals and counselling bodies due to AHPRA’s acknowledgement that when activities are relevant to your clinical practice they do not require such endorsement. Members of all mental health professional and counselling registration bodies can still accrue CPD hours by participating in activities of the Centre for Mental Health Education. Your CPD activity must be determined to be relevant to your individual professional requirements.
All CMHE programs have been developed by qualified mental health professionals who are currently practising in their professional area, hold post-graduate qualifications, and are peer-reviewed. If CMHE courses are relevant to your practice as a mental health professional then our courses meet the requirements of mental health professional and counselling registration bodies as outlined by the Australian Health Practitioner legislation.
Please check with your professional leader or registered professional organisation for recommendations.
AHPRA CPD Statements
- Psychologists
- Medical Practitioners
- Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioners
- Mental Health OTs
- Mental Health Nurses
Non-government Associations & Professional Bodies CPD Statements
- Australian Association of Social Workers
- Australian College of Mental Health Nurses
- Australian Counselling Association
- Australian Psychological Society
- Occupational Therapy Australia
- Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA)
- Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP)
- Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)