Bite Size DBT Skills Part 1

Bite Size DBT Skills:

Gathering Confidence and Momentum as a DBT Skills Expert with Ursula Whiteside, PhD

Training includes a 26 hour online course designed to provide a practical and effective approach for healthcare clinicians, peer-support staff and support staff working with patients experiencing mental health and substance-use struggles (including suicidal thoughts) in outpatient and inpatient settings - particularly in settings implementing the Zero Suicide approach. The course includes outside of class preparation and practice of techniques taught in course. The 14 one-hour “On-Demand” classes are intended to be delivered on an interval basis (e.g. monthly), and there are 12 hours of practice work outside of the online training hours. New classes are released every four weeks. Class Practice Assignments are to be submitted 1 week prior to the next class in the course. The Micro-Interventions Course as a pre-requisite.

Training Schedule & Course Description

There is an introduction (Course Orientation) and summary (Course Wrap-Up) class, in addition the following monthly DBT Skill classes (Skill of the Month). Each DBT Skill class is one hour and involves one hour of outside practice work. The structure for the skills relies on the Zero Suicide framework and it's elements.

1. Opposite Action
2. Cold Water
3. Paced Breathing
4. Mindfulness (Part 1)
5. Distraction (combination of DBT skills)
6. Mindfulness of Current Emotion
7. DEAR MAN
8. GIVE
9. Mindfulness (Part 2)
10. Problem Solving
11. Radical Acceptance
12. Building a Life Worth Living (combination of DBT skills and participants existing strengths)

Who Should Participate?

Healthcare providers in inpatient, outpatient and community health, including Nursing (RN, LPN, MA, CNA); Therapists (e.g., Marriage & Family Therapists, Mental Health Counselors, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Social Workers); Providers (NP: ARNP or DNP, PA, MD, DO, ND), Peer Support Specialists, and other relevant health/behavioral health care staff.

Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify, differentiate and teach 12 DBT Skills introduced in training
• Recall DBT Skill Tips and Roadblocks for each of 12 DBT skills
• Utilize 12 unique DBT Skill Stories (a social modeling technique) developed during course
• Apply DBT Skills to Safety Planning, Dialectics, and Linehan’s Biosocial Theory (Stress Model)
• Describe utilization of free NowMattersNow.org resource materials to support DBT Skills
• Relate skills to Micro-Interventions (Linking Statements, Do It Now, Caring Contacts) to improve delivery of DBT Skills
• Relate Skills to the Zero Suicide model and it’s seven elements
• Gather exposure to additional DBT Skills during the training

Completion Requirements

Participants are asked to attend the entire learning series and complete an evaluation with attendance attestation.

Continuing Education Credit (CME type)

Update Quarter 1, 2023: Currently pursuing CME credit options. Free certificate available.

For each Skill of the Month, you will complete a Survey (where you'll submit your Practice Assignment, take and Exam, and provide a Class Evaluation). After the Survey you'll have the option to purchase a Continuing Education Credit (free for specific counties or Tribal health systems). You do not need to purchase the CME, you can take the whole course for free and you'll get a 6 and a 12 month certificate for doing so.

What are CMEs?

Continuing education hours are required for many professions. Continuing Medical Education hours (or CMEs) are one type of continuing education hour. They have been certified to meet certain high standards in the field of healthcare.

While CME standards are specific to medical doctors and continuing education rules vary by state, other healthcare profession licensing bodies tend to accept CME hours because they have high quality controls. For example, in Washington State up to 50% of psychologists' required hours can be of the CME type.

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Wisconsin Medical Society through the joint providership of MetaStar, Inc. and Ursula Whiteside, LLC. MetaStar, Inc. is accredited by the Wisconsin Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

MetaStar, Inc. designates this activity for a maximum of 26.00 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

As of January 1, 2021 this online training will be available for CME credit for one year. The course is available indefinitely for non-CME credit.

Your Data
As part of this course:

• we will use email to communicate about course content (you have to "opt in" to "promotional emails" when you register).
• your course engagement data will be used to inform course improvements.
• your de-identified course engagement data may be used for research purposes (e.g. to evaluate the impact of the course)

Course Engagement Data Examples: surveys results, engagement and participation descriptives, and demographic information

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