December 13, 2024
8:30am – 12:00pm Pacific Time
11:30am – 3:00pm Eastern Time
Presented Virtually via Zoom Video Communications
Presented By
Amy Kalasunas, LPCC-S, NCC
DBT-Linehan Board of Certification Certified Clinician™
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Referrals of parents asking for help with struggling young adult children have grown exponentially in recent years. These young adult children are often under/unemployed, not actively pursuing education/training options, struggle with emotion dysregulation and behavioral activation, experience urges for high-risk behaviors including suicide and non-suicidal self-injury and are reliant solely on parents’ financial and emotional support. Frustrated parents describe feeling unable to effectively encourage change in their young-adult child. Also, parents often inadvertently reinforce the problem behaviors causing distress, which accommodates ineffective behaviors in their adult children.
While the DBT model has already proven effective in instructing and supporting parents, a method for intervening in parental accommodation was needed. The SPACE protocol (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions), developed as a parent only intervention for treating childhood anxiety, has an adaptation for parents of failure to launch young adults (Lebowitz, 2016).
This workshop will review the rationale for combining DBT and SPACE, link effective interventions to forms of accommodation, and model application of specific DBT skills for parents actively working to reduce accommodation and improve relationships with their young adult children. This workshop is an expansion on an hour long Learn and Earn and offers an in-depth opportunity to explore the application of DBT and SPACE principals to parents of multi-diagnostic young adults. Participants will also learn the active practice of applying DBT skills training to the targets of parental accommodation.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:
- Explain the rationale for using SPACE and DBT with parents of multi-diagnostic young adults.
- Understand the dialectics of accommodation for parents and young adults.
- Define the forms of parental accommodation and explain how this reinforces ineffective behaviors in young adult children.
- Describe the importance of creating a Supportive Statement for parents and their young adult children.
- Understand the role of finding synthesis as parental accommodation is reduced.
- Define how each DBT skill module behaviorally supports parents in reducing accommodation and increases capabilities in young adult children.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Mental health professionals with or without familiarity with DBT.
REQUIREMENTS AND PREREQUISITES
There are no prerequisites for this course, and background training in DBT is encouraged.
PRICING:
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Individual Registration Fee $159.00 |
Group Registration Fee for 3 or more $135.00/person |
Students are eligible for 15% off individual registration fee* |
*email training@pdbti.org for student discount code
CONTINUING EDUCATION HOURS
Participants who complete the training will earn 3 CE hours.
Portland DBT Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6326.
Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Portland DBT Institute is solely is responsible for all aspects of the program.
Private Training Request
Portland DBT Institute training is available to schedule as a private training for your group. PDBTI’s training team travels locally, nationally, and internationally, to provide evidence based, adherent DBT training. Please fill out our Training Request Form and a training coordinator will contact you to see how we can work together to exceed your organization’s training goals.
CANCELLATIONS AND REFUNDS
A $60.00 handling fee will be deducted upon cancellation. Refund requests by fax or email must be received two weeks before the start date. In addition, the fees are non-transferrable.
PDBTI reserves the right to cancel any program due to under-enrollment, or any course due to work stoppages, instructor illness or inclement weather. If a course is cancelled, PDBTI is responsible for refunding only the course fee.
