St. Louis DBT's Learning Center is a growing resource for therapists who are using dialectical behavior therapy in their sessions or wanting to learn more about DBT. Here you will find resources for assessing your skills acknowledge as a DBT therapist, as well as more articles to come that will include tips for integrating DBT more adherently into your sessions.
You advocate for mindfulness. You teach distress tolerance. You talk about emotion regulation (all. the. time.). You have a stack of photocopied DBT handouts (some even laminated!) sitting on your desk.
So…are you doing DBT?
Maybe.
There is an important distinction between using DBT-informed strategies and practicing comprehensive, adherent Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
Read MoreDBT strategies provide a beautiful blueprint and elegant framework to create thoughtfully-designed and effective sessions. Test your familiarity with the core strategies used in DBT Individual work.
Read MoreThere is knowing the skills and then there is knowing how to teach, coach, model, reinforce, and motivate use of the skills. Let’s see if your knowledge of DBT Skills extends beyond the workbook and handout sheets!
Read MoreTake this quick and simple quiz to test your knowledge on DBT basics. Please note that this is not a comprehensive assessment and is just meant to briefly assess a few of the more common theories and model foundations upon which DBT is based.
Read MoreIt’s not surprising that DBT Therapists make mistakes. After all, we are human AND we love embracing that DBT agreement that we are fallible.
What is surprising is that DBT therapists seem to make the same 5 mistakes repeatedly. Read on to see if you do them too.
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