On-Demand Webinar: Managing Skills Training Classes (Level 2 Part 06)

Description and Learning Objectives

Using The RO DBT Treatment Hierarchy And Skills Training Manual. In this webinar, Dr Lynch teaches you how to use the RO Skills Training Treatment Hierarchy as a guide to help conduct a class and he will provide specific instructions on how to structure RO skills classes and effectively use the RO Skills Training Manual. Webinar Duration: 1 hour and 12 minutes

Making Skills Classes Fun, Teaching Skills Effectively, and Reviewing Homework. In this webinar, Dr Lynch teaches you how to make RO Skills Training Classes engaging and fun. He teaches the core RO DBT teaching principles needed to maximize outcomes, encourage participation, and flexibly respond to questions and how these principles manifest in real-life. Finally, Dr Lynch will teach you how to effectively review homework in class—RO style! Webinar Duration: 1 hour and 10 minutes

Using Heat-On and Heat-off Strategies, Dealing with Quiet Classrooms, and Managing Non-Participation during Participating without Planning exercises. In this webinar Dr Lynch teaches you how to use Heat-On and Heat-Off strategies in class to maximize engagement, class participation, and shape skills usage. Dr Lynch also teaches you how to deal with quiet classrooms, and how to manage a class member who refuses to participate in a Participation without Planning practice. Webinar Duration: 1 hour and 14 minutes

Course length:  3 hours 36 minutes

CE credits: 3.5

Created/launched: March 2022

Learning Objectives. At the end of this course, you will be able to:

1. Use the RO Skills Training Treatment Hierarchy as a guide to help conduct a RO skills training class. 
2. Use the RO Skills Training Manual to teach your clients skills and structure RO skills classes effectively. 
3. Apply key principles to maximize client attendance when orienting OC clients about the importance of RO skills training
4. Apply therapeutic silliness during skills training classes to viscerally signal that it is socially acceptable to play, relax, and openly express emotions to others.
5. Apply core RO DBT teaching principles to encourage skills class participation and flexibly respond to questions.
6. Organize homework review during RO skills training classes using RO principles to maximize effectiveness.
7. Apply Heat-On and Heat-Off strategies in class to maximize engagement, class participation, and shape skills usage
8. Use RO strategies to re-engage an RO skills class that has suddenly gone quiet. 
9. Use mimicry and therapeutic teasing strategies to manage a client who refuses to participate in a Participating without Planning exercise.  

Entry Requirements & Additional Information

Target audience: clinicians with a professional qualification in a mental health or related field (e.g. psychology, psychiatry, social work, mental health nursing) who have already attended an RO DBT intensive training and who would like to refresh their knowledge. 

Content Level: Intermediate - it is expected you are familiar with RO DBT.

Entry Requirements: You must have successfully completed Level 1 of the Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy Blended Learning program or attended an RO DBT Intensive Training in the past.

Method of Delivery: this course consists of a non-interactive pre-recorded video. You will need to have a sufficiently strong internet connection to be able to stream the video.

Accessibility: All videos have the option to turn on English Closed Captions. If you have any questions, need help or want to discuss accessibility issues, please contact roelie@radicallyopen.net

Knowledge Quizzes: After each part you will be invited to complete a knowledge quiz via your online account.  You will need to answer 80% of questions correctly in order to pass and move on to the next part. 

Recommended Reading Materials:

• Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Theory and Practice for Treating Disorders of Overcontrol (T. Lynch, 2018; published by New Harbinger)
• The Skills Training Manual for Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A Clinician\'s Guide for Treating Disorders of Overcontrol (T. Lynch, 2018; published by New Harbinger)

These books will be used throughout the training as reference works. You will not receive excerpts from the Textbook or Skills Manual as part of the Level 2 and 3 courses. It is assumed that clinicians wishing to learn RO DBT will have purchased these books already. If you have not, you can purchase them through various book sellers, including Amazon and New Harbinger, the publisher.

Conflicts of interest: We don’t receive any direct commercial support for our training companies RO DBT Online B.V. or Radically Open Ltd. However, Dr. Thomas Lynch, the RO DBT treatment developer and chief RO DBT trainer, receives royalty fees for the RO DBT Textbook and Skills Manual from New Harbinger publishers. He is married to Mrs Erica Smith-Lynch, co-owner and director or RO DBT Online B.V. and Radically Open Ltd.

CE credits

Certificate/Letter of Completion: You will be able to download a certificate of completion for 3.5 CE credits  provided you have passed the knowledge quiz and have completed the CE evaluation form. If you want your professional license number to be added to your certificate, please add this to your profile via your account management page.

Accreditation: We are accredited by the American Psychological Association and by the Approved Continuing Accreditation / Association of Social Work Boards.  ACE and APA credit is not awarded for prerequisite reading, homework, assignments, supervision, and consultation.

Instructor Bio: Dr Thomas Lynch

Thomas R. Lynch, PhD, is Professor Emeritus in the School of Psychology at University of Southampton. He was the Director of the Duke Cognitive Behavioral Research and Treatment Program at Duke University (USA) from 1998-2007.

Dr Lynch is the treatment developer of Radically Open-Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (RO-DBT)—a new transdiagnostic treatment approach informed by 20+ years of clinical research. He is the author of the RO-DBT treatment manual titled “Radically Open- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Disorders of Overcontrol” as a well as the RO DBT Skills Training Manual (2018; Context Press).

Dr Lynch has been the recipient of multiple large research grants from a range of sources, including the National Institutes of Health, National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, American Foundation of Suicide Prevention, the Hartford Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, and the National Institute for Health Research. He was also the Chief Investigator of a multi- centre randomized controlled trial examining the efficacy and mechanisms of RO-DBT funded by the NIHR- Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation programme (http://www.reframed.org.uk/; Lynch).

He is a recipient of the John M. Rhoades Psychotherapy Research Endowment and a Beck Institute Scholar. He is recognized internationally as a world-leading expert in difficult-to-treat disorders; such as, personality disorders, chronic depression, and anorexia nervosa and is in frequent demand as a speaker internationally—e.g., Europe, USA, and Canada.

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