Doing DBT: An Advanced Intensive Training
with Dr. Shireen Rizvi and Dr. Charles Swenson
Behavioral Care Center of New Jersey and Metro NY DBT Center bring you this exciting virtual opportunity, an advanced intensive DBT training.
DBT Intensive Training
DBT therapists who have already completed a DBT intensive or foundational training or their equivalents in workshops or seminars, and who have been practicing DBT, often search for opportunities to take clinical skills to the next level. This advanced intensive training is intended to do exactly that, taught by two highly experienced therapists, authors, supervisors, and teachers of DBT. Topics have been chosen that are relevant to all DBT practitioners, intended to build upon previous learning. Teaching will include didactic presentations, discussion, demonstrations, and practices. Ample opportunity will be afforded to address questions and problems raised by participants.
Training Information
Training Objectives
- DBT as Mindfulness: to strengthen the therapist’s uses of mindfulness principles and skills in doing psychotherapy
- DBT as Problem-solving: to identify obstacles that interfere with problem definition and procedures in chain analyses.
- DBT as Skills Training: to incorporate new methods for teaching DBT skills in order to enhance learning and uptake.
- DBT as Dialectics: to enhance the therapist’s ability to use dialectical principles, processes, and strategies to manage rigid conflicts and impasses in therapy
- Engaging the Unengageable Client: to increase the therapist’s capacity to engage clients in therapy who are especially difficult to engage
- DBT Steps on the Path: to identify challenges and solutions for increasing DBT adherence
Continuing Education
Continuing education credits approved by the New Jersey Social Work Continuing Education Approval Collaborative
16.5 CE Hours for Psychologists and Social Workers
Instructional level: Intermediate
Rutgers Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Rutgers Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0123.
LMFT/MFT and LPC/LAC Licensed in New Jersey: Programs approved by the American Psychological Association are acceptable sources of continuing education credits. Please see https://www.njconsumeraffairs.gov/regulations/Chapter-34-Subchapters-10-31-Professional-Counselors.pdf, Section: 13:34-15.4 APPROVAL OF COURSES OR PROGRAMS on page 27. For all other professional licenses and certifications, please reference your issuing state board regulations regarding reciprocity of continuing education credits.
In addition to payment for this talk, Dr. Swenson receives compensation for providing consultation and supervision and Dr. Rizvi has received compensation from NIMH and Behavioral Tech and royalties form Guilford Press and Youtube.
Meet the Presenters
Charles (Charlie) Swenson, M.D.
Charles (Charlie) Swenson, M.D., is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. As Senior Psychiatrist and Area Medical Director from 1997 to 2001 and 2010 to 2014, he oversaw the clinical care in Western and Central Massachusetts for the Department of Mental Health.
More About Charles
Originally trained in psychoanalysis, he undertook training in DBT and CBT beginning in 1987. He has directed more than 40 ten-day DBT workshops over the past twenty years, teaching several hundred teams, has conducted about a dozen advanced workshops, and has implemented DBT in outpatient, inpatient, day treatment, residential, case management, and crisis settings, with adults and adolescents.
Along with his extensive experience of practice, implementation, supervision, and consultation in DBT, he is considered to be an inspiring teacher who brings DBT to life with clinical examples and demonstrations. His numerous published articles and book chapters include such topics as: implementation of DBT in community mental health settings, implementation of DBT in inpatient settings, comparing and contrasting DBT with transference-focused psychotherapy, comparing and contrasting DBT with mentalization-based treatment, and a commentary on why DBT is so popular.
In 2016, Guilford Press published Dr. Swenson’s book, DBT Principles in Action: Acceptance, Change, and Dialectics, which brings his vast experience to bear on the question of how to practice DBT in a way that is adherent to the manual while being flexible and fluid. During 2018 he has completed two soon-to-be-published chapters: one chapter on applying DBT to milieu treatment settings (Partial Hospital Programs, Day Treatment Programs, Intensive Outpatient Programs, and Inpatient Programs), and one chapter on the use of the consultation team in DBT and in the prevention and treatment of therapist burnout. He treats his own patients—adults, adolescents, and families—in a private practice in Northampton, Massachusetts, and writes and performs songs about DBT even when they are not requested.
Shireen Rizvi, PhD, ABPP
Shireen Rizvi, PhD, ABPP is currently Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University where she also holds affiliate appointments in the psychology department, the Department of Psychiatry, and the School of Public Health.
More About Shireen
She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Washington, and completed her internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the VA Boston/National Center for PTSD. Her research interests include improving outcomes, training, and dissemination of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for the treatment of complex and severe populations.
She has received foundation and federal funding and her work has resulted in over 70 peer-reviewed articles and chapters. Shireen is board certified in Behavioral and Cognitive Psychology and DBT. She is on the Board for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) and is past-President of the Board of ISITDBT. She has trained hundreds of practitioners in DBT from around the world and is the Director of the DBT Clinic at Rutgers (DBT-RU). Shireen Rizvi, PhD, ABPP is currently Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University where she also holds affiliate appointments in the psychology department, the Department of Psychiatry, and the School of Public Health.
She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Washington, and completed her internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the VA Boston/National Center for PTSD. Her research interests include improving outcomes, training, and dissemination of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for the treatment of complex and severe populations. She has received foundation and federal funding and her work has resulted in over 70 peer-reviewed articles and chapters. Shireen is board certified in Behavioral and Cognitive Psychology and DBT.
She is on the Board for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) and is past-President of the Board of ISITDBT. She has trained hundreds of practitioners in DBT from around the world and is the Director of the DBT Clinic at Rutgers (DBT-RU).
Registration Form
Please complete this form to register for the upcoming virtual training. Please note that your registration is not complete until your check has been received.
There is a two-step registration process.
1) Complete the registration form online.
2) Your registration will be complete when we receive payment (Check or Zelle). Checks should be made out to Metro NY DBT Center, 205 Ridgedale Ave, Suite 101, Florham Park, NJ 07932, To the attn of Carrie Diamond..
OR
If you prefer to use Zelle, please send payment to the email address: metronydbtpsychservices@gmail.com. In the memo, please put DBT Intensive Training.
Confirmation of registration and payment will be sent by email.
Your fee includes access for 1 participant to the training as well as e-handouts.
The cost is $900 per person for individual registration. The student rate is $500. All Payments must be received by 5/29/2024 or when capacity is reached.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Registration Details
The registration deadline is two weeks prior to the seminar date. Registrations are taken on a first come, first serve basis until enrollment capacity is reached. All registrations must be pre-paid. If registering within two weeks of the seminar, call 212-560-2437. for space availability.
Special Needs: ADA accommodations will be made in accordance with the law; please indicate your special needs at the time of registration.
Refunds, Cancellations and Substitutions Policies:
The deadline to cancel is May 6, 2024. 50% of your tuition is non-refundable if cancelled after the deadline. All refund checks will be issued within 15 days of the close of the training.
Substitution Policy:
Substitutions must be arranged within 10 days of the start of the training.
Cancellation:
If you need to cancel your registration, please email cdiamond@metronydbt.com or call 212-560-2437. All refund checks will be issued within 15 business days of the close of the training.
Questions or concerns: If you have any questions or concerns not addressed on the website, please email emiller@behavioralcarenj.com or carriediamondpsyd@yahoo.com or call 973-660-0700.