Behavioral Tech Announces Eight Comprehensive Training Programs for Mental Health Professionals this Fall; Features Dr. Marsha Linehan's Materials for Training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

    SEATTLE, WA, August 15, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Mental health professionals around the United States can learn state of the art compassionate and evidence-based treatments for complex and severe mental disorders through Behavioral Tech LLC Fall Training Session, which is offering seven comprehensive two-day training programs and one five-day Foundational DBT Training course.

Founded by Marsha M. Linehan, Marsha Linehan, Ph.D., ABPP, Behavioral Tech trains mental health care providers and treatment teams who work with complex and severely disordered populations to use compassionate, scientifically valid treatments and to implement and evaluate these treatments in their practice setting. Dr. Linehan is widely known as the treatment developer of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), which is recognized as the leading treatment approach for individuals with severe, difficult-to-treat disorders.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy is a hot topic this summer in the wake of the New York Times article featuring Dr. Linehan's personal story.

Behavioral Tech announced that its Fall Training Session will feature the most experienced and outstanding trainers in the field of DBT. Two day training workshops are set for Minneapolis, Greenwich, Connecticut, Denver, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, Portland, Oregon, and Las Vegas. The five-day Foundational DBT Training course will be held in Portland, Maine.

The 2011 Fall Training Session includes:

Treating Anxiety Disorders in Multi-Problem Clients with BPD:
How, When, & Why to Use Exposure Procedures in DBT
Dates: September 15-16, 2011
Trainers: Melanie Harned, Ph.D. and Annie McCall, M.A., LMHC
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
This two-day training will be a highly practical, applied workshop that provides participants with a thorough working knowledge of the common principles and procedures of exposure therapies for anxiety disorders. Emphasis will be placed on how to use formal exposure procedures to treat anxiety among severe and multi-problem BPD clients receiving DBT.

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Five-Day Foundational DBT Training Course
Dates: October 2-6, 2011
Trainers: Charles Swenson, M.D. and Melanie Harned, Ph.D.
Location: Portland, Maine
This five-day training is designed specifically for individual or group therapists who are members of an Intensively Trained team but who have not completed Intensive Training themselves

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Beyond the Basics: DBT Skills Essentials in Action
Dates: October 13-14, 2011
Trainers: Adam Payne, Ph.D. and Alec Miller, Psy.D.
Location: Greenwich, Connecticut
This two-day training covers the fundamentals of running a skills training group. Participants learn how to set up a group, set group goals and guidelines, use effective teaching methods, be a co-leader, identify and solve common problems in skills groups, make skills lectures come alive, give meaningful homework assignments, and review homework assignments in a way that promotes active engagement with different client populations and settings

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Mindfulness, Willingness and Radical Acceptance in Psychotherapy
Dates: October 17-18, 2011
Trainers: Marsha Linehan, Ph.D., ABPP and Cedar Koons, MSW, LISW
Location: Denver, Colorado
This training will be both experiential and tutorial, consisting of practice and discussion of various mindfulness exercises and practices (both in and outside of the seminar) combined with lecture and discussion of strategies for teaching each of the mindfulness skills. The workshop is intended for therapists using all approaches and is not aimed specifically at DBT or CBT therapists.

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Mindfulness, Willingness and Radical Acceptance in Psychotherapy
Dates: October 20-21, 2011
Trainers: Marsha Linehan, Ph.D., ABPP and Randy Wolbert, LMSW, CAADC
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
This training will be both experiential and tutorial, consisting of practice and discussion of various mindfulness exercises and practices (both in and outside of the seminar) combined with lecture and discussion of strategies for teaching each of the mindfulness skills. The workshop is intended for therapists using all approaches and is not aimed specifically at DBT or CBT therapists.

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Treating Anxiety Disorders in Multi-Problem Clients with BPD:
How, When, & Why to Use Exposure Procedures in DBT
Dates: December 5-6, 2011
Trainers: Melanie Harned, Ph.D. and Kathryn Korslund, Ph.D., ABPP
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
This two-day training will be a highly practical, applied workshop that provides participants with a thorough working knowledge of the common principles and procedures of exposure therapies for anxiety disorders. Emphasis will be placed on how to use formal exposure procedures to treat anxiety among severe and multi-problem BPD clients receiving DBT.

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Beyond the Basics: DBT Skills Essentials in Action
Dates: December 8-9, 2011
Trainers: Tony DuBose, Psy.D. and Dan Finnegan, MSW
Location: Portland, Oregon
This two-day training covers the fundamentals of running a skills training group. Participants learn how to set up a group, set group goals and guidelines, use effective teaching methods, be a co-leader, identify and solve common problems in skills groups, make skills lectures come alive, give meaningful homework assignments, and review homework assignments in a way that promotes active engagement with different client populations and settings

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DBT: Treating Clients with Borderline Personality Disorder and Substance Use Disorders
Dates: December 8-9, 2011
Trainers: Linda Dimeff, Ph.D.
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
This two-day training will be a highly practical, applied workshop that provides participants with a thorough working knowledge of the modifications made when applying DBT to clients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and substance use disorders.

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About Behavioral Tech, LLC
Behavioral Tech is the only company exclusively authorized to utilize and disseminate Dr. Linehan's materials for training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Dr. Linehan is a Professor of Psychology, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington and Director of the Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics.

Dr. Linehan founded Behavioral Tech in 1997 in response to the growing demand for training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy. In 1998, under the direction of Linda Dimeff, Ph.D., Behavioral Tech's Research and Development (R&D) department began developing and evaluating training methods to make training accessible, affordable, effective, and efficient. In January 2004, with the growth of the organization, the R&D department became Behavioral Tech Research Inc. Today, Behavioral Tech Research continues to develop and test new training and fidelity tracking methods and products, through funding obtained from the National Institutes of Health.

Behavioral Tech provides comprehensive continuing education courses, on-line learning programs, and recommended products and information resources for mental health professionals and agencies.

For further information visit www.behavioraltech.org.

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