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Rent this Webinar September is National Suicide Prevention Month. There are an average of 123 suicides each day in the USA. Further, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Burden of Disease study estimate that almost 800,000 people die from suicide every year. That’s one person every 40 seconds. It’s the tenth leading cause…

Rent this Webinar Self-injury is intentionally hurting the body (e.g. cutting, burning etc..) but without suicidal intent. Because it often looks like a suicidal gesture it tends to evoke fear and confusion. Its very nature seems to defy deep instinctual human drives for self-preservation as well strong social taboos related to self-inflicted injury. Join Dr. Whitlock for…

Rent this Webinar Adolescents, with the highest rate of self-injurious behaviors compared to other demographic groups (17%) admit to self-injury at least once in their lifetime. Sadly, the average age of the first incident is 13 years old. Whether you are a parent of a child who is engaging in self-injury, a teacher, or medical…

Rent this Webinar As DBT clinicians, it is important that we can identify the needs of our clients. This webinar will identify ways to identify clients who would benefit from DBT-SUD as well as talk about a few of the DBT-SUD skills. Dr. Sayrs will introduce how DBT can be used to treat clients with…

Rent this Webinar Zen fingerprints are found all over DBT.  In addition to the core mindfulness skills, they are found in reality acceptance skills particularly radical acceptance; emotion regulation skills especially opposite action; and interpersonal effectiveness skills.  The technology of validation comes from the practice of Zen.  Regular (daily) practice by clinicians results in better…

Rent this Webinar As DBT therapists, we all work with clients who identify as sexual or gender minority individuals, or both. How does our guiding theoretical framework, the biosocial theory of emotion dysregulation, incorporate attentiveness to the effects of stigmatizing environments for LGBTQ+ people? How can we most effectively apply DBT strategies, such as dialectical…