Event Details
Dates: Friday and Saturday, December 9 and 10, 2022
Time: 11am – 4pm (Eastern Time)
Location: Zoom
About the Workshop
Relationship distress typically includes a lot of dysregulated emotion, particularly anger, hurt
feelings, sadness, embarrassment, and worry. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) has been
shown in dozens of studies to be effective in treating the many problems associated with emotion
dysregulation. DBT has been adapted for use with couples, parents, and families with multiple
studies demonstrating successful outcomes.
This training will focus on:
1. How to think about couple transactions in a DBT way, with the role of emotion
dysregulation as a central tenet alongside misunderstanding and invalidating responses;
2. DBT couple interventions that organize and manage reactive or dysregulated partners in
the session,
3. How to help partners learn emotion management and relationship skills that reduce
aversive conflict, increase collaboration and build closeness and connection. DBT with
high conflict couples has been shown to improve couple relationships in general, helping
partners become less destructive and more peaceful and loving.
Learning Objectives
1. Describe how emotion vulnerability and invalidation transact to create emotion
dysregulation in couples, including problematic patterns
2. Build a treatment target hierarchy relevant to couples in distress
3. Conduct a “double chain” to understand how partner transactions evolve and contribute
to problem behaviors, and to identify points of intervention
4. Teach and coach relationship mindfulness, accurate expression, and validation
5. Teach and coach collaborative problem solving
6. Utilize the double chain to weave in these skills as solutions
7. Manage in-session conflict and dysregulation
Target Audience
All health care professionals seeking to gain knowledge of and refine their skills in delivering
family interventions.
Webinar Recording
This two-day webinar will be recorded. Recordings will be shared with all registrants within 5-7
days of the webinar taking place. These will be available for 60 days once the recordings are
released
Course Fees
Early-Bird Regular: $400 CAD + HST = $452 CAD
Early-Bird Student*: $325 CAD + HST = $367.25 CAD
EARLY-BIRD DEADLINE: December 1, 2022
* Students must submit a copy/scan of their valid student ID or confirmation of enrolment
to: [email protected]
** A 10% discount is available for groups of 5+ registering at the same time
Presenter
Alan E. Fruzzetti, Ph.D. is Director of Training in Family Services and Director of DBT
Adherence for 3East DBT programs at McLean Hospital, and Associate Professor of Psychology
in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He received his B.A. from Brown
University and M.S. & Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle. Alan has adapted
and implemented Dialectical Behavior Therapy for multiple underserved populations and
developed many successful DBT programs for people with BPD, other problems with emotion
regulation, and programs for couples, parents, and families. His research focuses on the
connections between severe psychopathology and interpersonal/family processes, and their
interplay with emotion dysregulation.
Dr. Fruzzetti is President of the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder,
on the Board of Directors of the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, and co-founder of the
Center for DBT and Families. He has authored well over 100 research and clinical papers and
book chapters, two books, is the editor of the Guilford DBT Practice series, and has lectured and
trained professionals and the public in more than two dozen countries in BPD, Dialectical
Behavior Therapy, and/or in family interventions. Alan is the co-creator (with Dr. Perry
Hoffman) of the NEA-BPD Family Connections (FC) program for parents, partners, and other
loved ones of people with BPD and related problems, and the new FC adaptation for parents with
trauma related to suicidality in their loved ones. He has received many honors for research,
teaching, and for community service, and is married with four children.
Registration Options
1. Register online and pay with credit card
2. Email completed registration form and send an e-Transfer (payment + HST)
to [email protected]
505 Eglinton Avenue West, Suite 200, Toronto, ON M5N 1B1 tel: 416.855.2625 fax: 647.729.5551
www.CMBH.space
Multiple Registrants: One registration form is required per attendee.
Registration Confirmation: Please allow 1-2 business days for our workshop staff to confirm
your registration. We will email you an official receipt upon confirmation, including further
details on workshop format and preparation materials.
Cancellation and Refund Policy: An administrative fee of $75 will be charged for
cancellations. For a refund, written notification must be received by November 25, 2022. Written
notice of cancellation should be emailed to [email protected] Refunds will not be issued after
November 25, 2022. CMBH reserves the right to cancel workshops due to unforeseen
circumstances.
Continuing Education (CE) Credits
OPA: Approved for 9.5 CE credits for psychological practitioners.
MDPAC: Approved for 9.5 hours of MDPAC Group CE credits and 1 hour of MDPAC CCI
credits (automatically calculated when MDPAC member submits Group CE hours)
Participants must attend both days of the webinar in real-time to receive a certificate of
completion detailing CE credits. Attendance will be noted manually by our workshop staff on
both days. Participants who are unable to attend one or both days of the webinar may view the
recordings once they are released and can be provided a questionnaire upon request to receive
full CE credits.
Registration Link:
https://cmbh.space/event/online-training-dbt-with-reactive-or-high-conflict-couples/-register
Registration Form:
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Event Page:
https://cmbh.space/event/online-training-dbt-with-reactive-or-high-conflict-couples
