Contact Hours: 6

Instructor: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes LPC-MHSP, LMHC

Based on Counselor Toolbox Episodes 73, & 106-108 Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills

Objectives
~    Review the basic premises of DBT
~    Learn about the HPA-Axis
~    Define emotion regulation
~    Identify why emotion regulation is important and how it can help clients
~    Explore emotion regulation techniques

~    Define goals of distress tolerance
~    Discuss why some clients do not choose distress tolerance
~    Explore a variety of Distress Tolerance and Reality Acceptance Skills including

• STOP
• Pros and Cons
• TIP
• ACCEPTS
• Self Soothing
• IMPROVE the Moment
• Radical Acceptance
• Turning the Mind