DBT: Practical Life Skills Reinforced through Music Therapy (10 CMTEs)

What is DBT? Why this course?

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), is an effective evidence-based treatment model using skills training to “change behavioral, emotional, thinking, and interpersonal patterns associated with problems in living”. (Linehan 2015)

The amount of research on DBT and its effectiveness with various populations has exploded, as has the popularity of its use. The need for trained music therapists in this field is growing. This class is the first step of the training we offer music therapists that will allow you to competently meet that need.

Skills for mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness will be reviewed along with many music therapy interventions. You will leave with tons of new interventions that you can implement right away with your clients.

Discover how music therapy and other allied disciplines can be used to teach, anchor, and reinforce DBT skills. Sharing of therapeutic (music therapy) interventions.

Learning Objectives

1.Participants will be able to define the 4 modules of DBT and name a skill in each module.

2.Participants will be able to list a music therapy intervention for teaching or reinforcing one skill in each of the 4 DBT skills modules.

3.Participants will be able to identify at least 1 population DBT can be used with.

4.Participants will be able to name 1 way they can integrate music therapy with DBT skills in their professional setting.

Prequisite:

Review the skills in Marsha Linehan’s book: Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder. or the new book DBT Skills Training Manual. DBT is used with a multitude of populations, not just borderlines. Either of these texts are a must read because it offers an underlying basis for therapists to be familiar with the DBT Skills.

Presenters:

This is a self study class with Deborah Spiegel MT-BC and Lindsey Landeck MT-BC. Deborah Spiegel is a DBT informed Music Therapist who was first introduced to DBT in 2001. After spending almost 12 years working as the music therapist and a DBT skills group leader in a DBT program at the Colorado Mental Health Institute, she created a how to book for therapists and training programs for music therapists to learn how to integrate DBT into their practice. She is author of the book Creative DBT Activities Using Music: Interventions for Enhancing Engagement and Effectiveness in Therapy (Jessica Kingsley 2020) and CEO of the Spiegel Academy.

Lindsey Landeck is a music therapist currently working in a psych hospital in Michigan, serving as co-therapist with her psychologist in their DBT skills groups. LIndsey’s psychologist has noticed that the patients seem to pay attention more and retain more when music therapy is integrated into the skills groups. They are involved in a research project to validate this!

CBMT Domain areas:

IID3 Collaborate with other professionals and/or family, caregivers, and personal network to design interdisciplinary

treatment programs.

IID10 Design experiences to generalize goals and objectives across settings, people, subjects, behaviors, or time.

IIIA2a-z Provide individualized music therapy experiences to address client’s

IIIA3a,c and 4ac Recognize how the following theoretical frameworks inform music therapy practice and Utilize the

following music therapy approaches to inform: behavioral cognitive

DBT: Practical Life Skills Reinforced Through Music Therapy is approved by the Certification Board for Music Therapists (CBMT) for 10 CMTEsContinuing Music Therapy Education credits. The Spiegel Academy, CBMT Approved Provider #P-106, maintains responsibility for program quality and adherence to CBMT policies

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