This 2 day virtual training will provide school mental health staff with an overview of how Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and strategies can be provided within the school environment using a MTSS model. School mental health staff will be taught how to identify student goals and behavioral targets for counseling sessions as well as the rationale of using a chain analysis as a method of assessment and guide to determining effective solutions.

Learning objectives include:

• Understand the modes and functions of Dialectical Behavior Therapy in the clinical setting.

• Understand how the modes and functions of DBT have been adapted to a school-based setting.

• Understand the rationale for the different applications of DBT in the school context.

• Understand and use DBT approaches to goal setting and behavioral targeting.

Social workers can earn up to 11 continuing education hours. Click here for more information or to register.