Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Part 1 - Foundation (2 sessions)
- Type: Face to Face Workshops
- Trainers: Dr Peter King
- Date: 24th-25th January 2024
- Part 2 - Advanced Skills (1 session)
- Type: Face to Face Workshops
- Trainers: Dr Peter King
- Date: 26th Jan 2024
Focus of the course
Marsha Linehan and colleagues developed a systematic cognitive-behavioural treatment called Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) for working with individuals who meet criteria for borderline personality disorder. The therapy aims to teach skills to improve emotional regulation which includes interpersonal skills, mindfulness and distress tolerance skills. Personal and environmental factors inhibit the use of behaviour skills that the individual possesses and frequently reinforce inappropriate behaviours. In individual treatment, DBT focuses on motivational issues and seeks to balance skill development with a supportive context that validates the person’s experiences.
However DBT also involves a considered focus on the therapeutic relationship and to therapy interfering behaviours. Examples of therapy interfering behaviours include the client’s poor compliance with aspects of the treatment contract, emotional withdrawal during sessions, missed appointments, and anger towards the therapist.
Meet the trainer
Dr Peter King Dr. Peter King has extensive experience as a Senior Clinician & Educator on Melbourne CAT teams and is a sought-after consultant. Peter provides education and program development in specialty areas that include Borderline Personality Disorder, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Crisis Intervention, Psychiatric Emergencies, Somatic Trauma Therapy and Mindfulness-based approaches in mental health care. Peter has specialist training in CBT, DBT, Somatic Trauma Therapy, Mindfulness and his Ph.D. explores treatments for individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder and clinicians’ training needs. Peter has developed numerous adaptions of DBT for a variety of settings including “Dialectics at Work!“, public mental health services, and Indigenous populations. Peter is also an Adjunct Senior Lecturer with Southern Cross University and is the Consortium Chair of Meadowbrook and Beaudesert headspace. Dr King has run exclusive training events for NUS in the past and we are delighted to welcome him back to Singapore.
Testimonials
“Dr King is an engaging trainer, he really gets his audience” NUS trainee
“We have used Peter in the past and would welcome him back again. He tailors to us perfectly” University training manager
