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Founded by Marsha M. Linehan, Ph.D., ABPP
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Greetings!
What comes to mind when you hear the words . . .summer . . . training . . . life? For many, the warmth of summer brings a desire to vacation with loved ones. As we take time to enjoy every precious moment, we are mindful of those we help who suffer with complex mental disorders. Take this moment to consider training options to enhance your practice and help you provide compassionate and scientifically valid treatments to fidelity. Together we help build lives worth living. This month we share selections from Dr. Marsha Linehan's teaching on Mindfulness as she explains how to better articulate the skill of Observe to clients. |
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Mindfulness Practice
Teaching Observe to Clients
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The first thing in teaching observing to clients is that you have to give them definitions or concrete steps about exactly how you do this. The one thing I have really realized over the years is how concrete you actually have to be. You have to listen to the questions that your clients ask and then figure out how to instruct them more specifically than you might have thought.
So first I'm going to go through some definitions. Then I'm going to . . .
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 Selections from Dr. Marsha M. Linehan's CD Observing Just This Moment -- Live Mindfulness Day 1
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Mindfulness, Willingness, and Radical Acceptance in Psychotherapy
Minneapolis, MN October 11-12, 2012 learn more
Los Angeles, CA December 6-7, 2012 learn more
Coping with Chaos: Treating Multiple Severe Disorders with Dialectical Behavior Therapy Worthington, OH
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DBT: Treating Clients with Borderline Personality Disorder and Substance Use Disorder
New Canaan, CT November 8-9, 2012 learn more
Co-hosted by Silver Hill Hospital
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Can't Get To A Training Workshop?
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 Treatments come to life with interactive activities and experts' guidance in fun and engaging online training.
Earn CE credits and implement powerful strategies to help your clients more fully achieve their goals and build lives worth living.
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Visit www.behavioraltech.org for complete training details, continuing education information, recommended products, online learning, and other resources. Sincerely, The Behavioral Tech Team |
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TRAINER
SPOTLIGHT 
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Cedar Koons, MSW, is the co-founder and team leader of Santa Fe Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), LLC, an outpatient private practice group. As a senior trainer for Behavioral Tech of Seattle, she has conducted DBT trainings, Intensives, and consultations all over the United States and in Australia and Japan. Prior to entering private practice, she was Director of the DBT program at the Women Veterans Comprehensive Health Center at the Durham VA Medical Center, where she conducted a study comparing DBT to treatment-as- usual for women veterans with borderline personality disorder and developed a DBT training program for psychiatry residents at Duke University Medical Center. Ms. Koons has also developed an adaptation of DBT for the vocational rehabilitation of persons with severe personality disorder and conducted a pilot study of the treatment.
Ms. Koons was the first president of the Marie Institute, now the Linehan Institute. Since 2001, she has assisted at regular mindfulness retreats for mental health professionals offered by the Linehan Institute under the leadership of Pat Hawk, Roshi and Dr. Marsha Linehan. She studied mindfulness with Prem Rawat since 1974 and with Pat Hawk from 2006 until his death in 2012. She is now a student of Marsha Linehan, Roshi.
Cedar lives in New Mexico where she loves to garden, ride her Paint Horse in the mountains, and write poetry. She writes a blog on mindfulness at www.mindfulnessbasedtherapy.net.
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DBT CERTIFICATION & ACCREDITATION
Based on the latest information about DBT certification from the Board of Certification and Accreditation, we are interested in how we might help you prepare for the process.
Please take a moment to share your thoughts with us in a short survey. Thank you for providing your feedback to help enhance the value of training available to you. You can read more about certification in DBT at http://depts.washington.edu/brtc/dbtca/.
DBT INTENSIVE & ADVANCED INTENSIVE TRAINING COURSES
Due to tremendous response, all our Intensive and Advanced Intensive training courses are currently filled. As we continue to plan more training opportunities please refer to our website and monthly eNews for regular updates on new opportunities.
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