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Learning Outcomes: - Better understanding of addictions - Learning skills for ‘Backing down from Addiction’ - Learning the Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) approaches to addiction - Engagement - Dialectical Abstinence - Addict mind, Clean Mind and CLEAR MIND - Learning how important Mindful commitment is in the DBT model - Understanding the importance of ‘Community Reinforcement’ - Learning the strategies of ‘Burning Bridges’ and ‘Building New Bridges’ - Understanding the complexities of ‘Alternate Rebellion’ - Understanding ‘Adaptive Denial’ DBT Skills to help with Addiction - TIPP skill - Coping Ahead Skill - Check the Facts skill - Distraction Skill Learning how adding creativity to the skills can offer a non-verbal way to understand the skill in an experiential way.
Presenter:
Megan Shiell is passionate about the way Dialectical Behaviour Therapy can assist sufferers of emotional dysregulation. Over the past 9 year she has trained over 2,000 clinicians in the use of DBT and also in the use of DBT alongside an experiential therapy Art Therapy. Megan has presented both in Australia, and Internationally on the subject of DBT and its uses in mental health arenas and has published her work in DBT and Art Therapy in the ANZATA Journal 2008. Megan has recently written a chapter in a book titled “DBT-Informed Art Therapy in Practice” edited by Susan M. Clark to be published later in 2020. Megan conducts some Face to Face intensive DBT training programs in Coolangatta, Qld and also for organisations in other regions of Australia. Since 2014 she has trained around 2,000 clinicians. Disclaimer: The content of this endorsed CPD course is provided by the external course provider. Attendees are encouraged to approach the material with an open mind and consider diverse perspectives, particularly those from lived experiences related to the topics discussed. For feedback regarding the course, please contact the course provider directly.