DBT Skills Training for Correctional Populations December 2024

Dates: December 3rd, 10th, and 17th, 2024
Time:  9AM-5PM  – Virtual
Presented By:  Lesley B. Chapin, Psy.D.
Pauquette Center for Psychological Services

  1. Describe the purpose of DBT skills training
  2. Describe why DBT skills training may be an effective intervention in correctional populations
  3. Describe the purpose of core mindfulness
  4. Demonstrate ability to teach core mindfulness skills
  5. Describe the purpose of distress tolerance
  6. Demonstrate coaching of distress tolerance skills
  7. Describe the purpose of emotion regulation skills
  8. Apply teaching of emotion regulation skills
  9. Describe the purpose of interpersonal effectiveness skills
  10. Demonstrate use of interpersonal effectiveness skills during classroom demonstration
  11. Identify skills to coach during crisis situations
  12. Identify ways to identify and address willfulness during skills coaching opportunities
  13. Identify important components of skill group instruction and how to make skills relevant to correctional populations
  14. Describe hierarchy of treatment needs in skills group.
  15. Describe the difference between therapy interfering and therapy destroying behaviors and how to address each
  16. Describe inclusion and exclusion criteria for DBT skills group

This program is intended primarily for clinical mental health staff working in correctional facilities and would also benefit correctional staff within other disciplines (e.g. security/safety staff, nursing, education, crisis, etc.) who have an interest in facilitating DBT skills training groups or providing skills training or coaching to clients on an individual basis. Previous experience implementing DBT is not required or necessary. This training may be useful to build and advance the knowledge of DBT skills coaches or co facilitators at institutions where a DBTprogram is already being implemented.

9am-5pm (central time) daily with 1 hour meal break scheduled 12-1 each day.
Day 1: morning: DBT foundation and introduction
Day 1: afternoon: Skill training basics, Group needs, Core Mindfulness Skills
Day 2: Morning- Mindfulness, homework review/practice, introduction to distress tolerance
Day 2: Afternoon- Completion of distress tolerance, Emotion Regulation
Day 3: Morning- Mindfulness, homework review/practice Interpersonal Effectiveness skills and Group Considerations
Day 3: Afternoon- Group troubleshooting, Skills coaching process and practice

Cost of attendance is $450 per participant
Students actively enrolled in an educational program (e.g. associates, bachelors, masters, doctoral, etc.) are eligible
for the discounted student rate of $350

50% refund if canceled more than 30 days in advance. No refunds within 30 days of the program
If the program is canceled for any reason, participants will be offered a refund or the ability to attend a rescheduled
event if applicable.

Lesley Chapin, Psy.D. is the Dialectical Behavior Therapy trainer for the Wisconsin Department of Corrections Division of Adult Institutions and Juvenile Corrections and has assisted in implementation of comprehensive and adapted DBT programs in a variety of correctional and forensic settings since 2010 as both a staff psychologist within those facilities, and as a consultant to other institutions and systems. Dr. Chapin received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Denver in 2009. She completed her internship at CMC-Randolph Behavioral Health inCharlotte, North Carolina, and her post-doctoral supervision with the Wisconsin Department of Corrections. She has worked within 3 state-run correctional and forensic facilities. Dr. Chapin currently works as a psychologist and Vice President of the Pauquette Center for Psychological Services as a DBT provider to outpatient adolescents and adults as well as justice-involved individuals. She continues to consult with juvenile justice, correctional, and forensic facilities across the nation regarding implementation of DBT programs. Dr. Chapin has been conducting DBT and DBT informed interventions since 2006 with adults, adolescents, and family members in inpatient, outpatient, correctional, forensic, and residential settings. She is board certified in Dialectical Behavior Therapy by the Linehan Board of Certification and is trained in several specified DBT protocols including DBT with children, adolescents, couples and families,trauma,eating disorders,and substance use disorders

This program offers 21 credits approved by the American Psychological Association. This program is 3 days and requires attendance of the full program in order to receive credit. No partial credit is awarded for incomplete attendance. The Pauquette Center for Psychological Services is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Pauquette maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

All registration fees for this event go to the Pauquette Center for Psychological Services. The presenters of this program have no other commercial interest or support or other conflicts to disclose.

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