May 15, 2026 @ 10-11:30am PST; 12-1:30pm CST; 1-2:30pm EST
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Webinar Details:
In the “DBT Next Steps” manual, Dr. Katherine Comtois, Dr. Adam Carmel, and Dr. Marsha Linehan offer a way to stretch across the divide for clients who successfully completed standard DBT but haven’t yet achieved their worth-living aspirations for work, employment, education, relationship-building, and community engagement.
This webinar will share an overview of Skills Training Group in DBT Next Steps. The participants involved will be trained to focus on the strategy of developing a Life Ambition statement and sharing it in a weekly group to gain traction on quality-of-life goals. Additionally, participants will gain insight on how to do weekly check-in’s that are an indispensable tool to get moving and keep momentum toward your goals. The webinar brings an innovative skills curriculum offering assignments to help practice skills and make them your own. While striking a balance between didactic and interactive approaches, this training will maximize participants’ understanding on how DBT Next Steps helps clients create new capabilities to achieve their employment, relationship, and independence goals.
Learning Objectives | By the conclusion of this event, participants will be able to:
- Explain the components of running a DBT Next Steps skills group
- Describe the role of the Life Ambition in DBT Next Steps group to move life-worth-living goals forward
- Understand the unique elements of the DBT Next Steps skills curriculum
Presenter Bio | Adam Carmel, PhD, is a Clinical Professor and the co-director of the Annual Comprehensive DBT Training program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. Dr. Carmel has previously served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He developed a psychotherapy seminar for psychiatry residents, psychology interns, and social work trainees while working as a Director of a DBT outpatient clinic and partial hospitalization program at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center. He has also co-authored two books published by Guilford Press in 2025, DBT Next Steps Skills Handouts: Building a Life Worth Living and DBT Next Steps Clinician’s Manual: Building a Life Worth Living, written with Drs. Kate Comtois and Marsha Linehan.
Additional Resources:
DBT Next Steps Skills Handouts: Building a Life Worth Living
DBT Next Steps Clinician’s Manual: Building a Life Worth Living
