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DBT Between Sessions: Generalizing DBT to Real Life

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Who This Course is For - For clinicians with intermediate familiarity with standard DBT

Dates for This Training - October 6, 2026

Early Bird Rate = $375 — ends September 22, 2026  |  Regular Price - $425

Course Specifics - LiveRemoteInstructor-Led

Upcoming Dates

October 6, 2026

Pricing

Early Bird: $375 — ends September 22, 2026
Regular: $425
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Purpose: This training is designed to address principles and approaches that clinicians need to effectively incorporate coaching between sessions in the service of generalization. Consequently, it should lead to greater confidence in engaging in this core part of DBT.

Content: This training covers essential principles and strategies to help clinicians effectively navigate coaching patients outside of DBT individual therapy sessions.

Length & Schedule: This training includes four modules totaling 6 hours of instructor-led instruction, along with two 15-minute breaks and a 60-minute lunch break.

For Whom: The intended audience for this training includes clinicians with intermediate familiarity with comprehensive, standard DBT. Before
enrolling in this training, participants must have completed comprehensive training in DBT. Either DBT Intensive Training or DBT Foundational Training meets these requirements.

Core Training Description:

This one-day training covers essential principles and strategies to help clinicians effectively navigate coaching in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT; Linehan, 1993a; 2015). This mode of treatment, often referred to as telephone consultation is one of the four components of standard, comprehensive DBT, along with weekly individual therapy, group skills training, and the therapist consultation team. The training reviews 1) how coaching fits into standard DBT; 2) the functions coaching; 3) how to help clients generalize skills to everyday life; 4) how to effectively prepare for and get started with coaching; 5) effective skills coaching principles and approaches; and 6) ways to effectively address suicidal and therapy-interfering behavior in the context of between session coaching.

The primary aim of between-session coaching is to help clients generalize behaviors and skills they are learning in DBT to situations in their everyday lives. When a client is having difficulty determining which skills to use or how to use them, they can reach out to their individual therapist for skills coaching. The individual therapist helps their client determine when and how to use skills to navigate challenging everyday life situations.

Although coaching is usually brief and effective, perhaps not surprisingly, this component of DBT raises concerns and worries among many clinicians. Clinicians often are unsure how they would navigate distressed client calls, remain available to their clients without interfering with their personal lives or walking down the path to burnout, or manage suicide crisis calls.

The training will include a variety of learning activities, including didactic presentations, live and video demonstrations of core strategies, active practice exercises, and experiential exercises.

The intended audience for this training includes clinicians with intermediate familiarity with comprehensive, standard DBT. Before enrolling in this training, clinicians must have completed the equivalent of 30-40 hours of formal, foundational training in DBT. This foundational training should have covered DBT theory, assumptions, principles, and structure; the four modes of DBT; core assessment strategies (e.g., chain analysis); core behavior change strategies (e.g., contingency management, skills training, cognitive modification, exposure strategies); DBT dialectical and stylistic strategies; skills training; and principles/approaches for the assessment and management of suicide risk.

This offering meets the requirements for the following hours by discipline. Licensing and continuing education requirements vary by state. Please contact your state’s regulatory authority to verify if this course meets your licensing or continuing education requirements. Inquiries regarding CE for other disciplines not listed may be directed to Behavioral Tech at (206) 675-8589 or via email to support@behavioraltech.org. And for general CE questions, you can review answers to continuing education FAQs or contact us.

CE NOTE: Behavioral Tech calculates the continuing education credits for this training by the start time and end time. 100 percent attendance is required, as is signing IN and OUT each morning and afternoon, to receive CE credits. Only participants with 100% attendance, and who have completed the Post-Event Evaluation and passed their Final Exam with a score of 75% or higher will receive credit. Behavioral Tech cannot offer partial credit. Please remember to sign in and sign out each day to document your attendance. Continuing Education documentation will be emailed to you 4-6 weeks after the last day of training.

Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors
Behavioral Tech is approved by NAADAC – the Association for Addiction Professionals, Provider #77431. You will receive a letter via email documenting your attendance upon successful completion of the activity. The allotted contact hours for this activity = 6.

Mental Health Counselors
Behavioral Tech is approved by an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP™) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. The ACEP solely is responsible for all aspects of the program.
Behavioral Tech will email you a letter documenting your attendance upon the successful completion of the activity. The allocated clock hours for this activity = 6.

Nurses
Behavioral Tech is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Continuing Medical Education is accepted by the ANCC for nursing certification renewal. The maximum AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ designated by Behavioral Tech for this activity = 6.

Psychiatrists
Behavioral Tech is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. The maximum AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ designated by Behavioral Tech for this activity = 6.

Psychologists
Behavioral Tech is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Behavioral Tech maintains responsibility for the program and its content. Behavioral Tech will email you a letter documenting your attendance after the successful completion of the program and homework. The number of hours Behavioral Tech has allocated for this activity = 6.

Psychologists – New York
Behavioral Tech 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-0063. Behavioral Tech will email a certificate of attendance upon 100% completion of this activity. The total contact hour allocated for this activity = 6.

Social Workers- Washington
Behavioral Tech will apply to the NASW, Washington State Chapter, Provider Number 1975-166, to offer continuing education for Certified Social Workers. Behavioral Tech will email a certificate of attendance upon 100% completion of this activity. The hours of CE allocated for this activity = 6.

Social Workers – New York
Behavioral Tech is approved by recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers, #0040. Behavioral Tech will email a letter documenting attendance to participants with 100% completion of the program and homework. The hours allocated for this activity = 6.

General CE/CME Disclosures and Policies

Conflict of interest definition: A conflict of interest may be considered to exist if a continuing education course faculty is affiliated with, or has any significant financial interest, in any organization(s) that may have a direct interest in the subject matter of the presentation or may be co-sponsoring or offering financial support to the course. Situations involving a potential conflict of interest are not inherently bad or wrong, but in accordance with standards for continuing medical education we would like you to be aware of the affiliation/financial interest of your instructors.

Faculty Disclaimer: When an unlabeled use of a commercial product, or an investigative use not yet approved for any purpose is discussed during an educational activity, we shall require the speaker to disclose that the product is not labeled for the use under discussion or that the product is still investigative.

Notice of requirements for successful completion: For all trainings (both in-person and remote), participants must attend 100% of the training and complete the Final Evaluation to receive a certificate of successful completion. This includes signing in and out each day/session of the event. For remote, Instructor-led online training, participants have to pass the Post Assessment(s) with a score of 75% or higher.

Commercial support or sponsorship: There is no commercial company support for this CME/CE event.

Noncommercial Sponsor Support: There is no noncommercial sponsor support for this CME/CE activity.

Non-Endorsement of Products: The Behavioral Tech approval status refers only to continuing education activities and does not imply that there is real or implied endorsement of any product, service, or company referred to in this activity nor of any company subsidizing costs related to the activity.

Off-Label Product Use: This CME/CE activity does not include any unannounced information about off-label use of a product for a purpose other than that for which it was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships: Faculty members are required to disclose all conflicts of interest and any relevant financial relationships that may affect the training content. Unless specified on Behavioral Tech’s website or on other printed materials/media, none of the individuals in a position to control the content of this CE/CME activity (including planners, editors, CE/CME Review Committee members, faculty presenters, moderators/facilitators, reviewers, etc.) have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

CE Reprint Policy: For missing/lost CE documentation, an administrative fee of $50 is required for all CE/CME activities after 2017. For CE reprints prior to 2017, please refer to the website or contact support@behavioraltech.org. Please refer to the CE FAQ webpage: https://behavioraltech.org/resources/faqs/continuing-education/.

Primary texts required for DBT training:

Supplemental Readings:

  • Landes, S.J., Matthieu, M.M, Smith, B.M., McBain, S.A., & Ray, E.S. (2021). Challenges and potential solutions to implementing phone coaching in dialectical behavior therapy. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 28, 66-76. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpra.2019.10.005.
  • Yepez-Coello, F., et al. (2024). Suicide risk assessment with marginalized clients: A guide for independent practitioners. Practice innovations. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pri0000266.

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