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Digital Seminar

DBT Interventions for High-Risk Clients: Ensuring Safety and Effectiveness in Trauma Treatment


Speaker:
Nathalie Lovasz, PhD
Duration:
1 Hour
Language:
Presented in EN and FR, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Jun 12, 2024
Product Code:
POS059855


Description

Clinicians often shy away from targeting/treating trauma and PTSD when clients present with high risk behaviours including non-suicidal self-injury and suicidal behaviours. This is often true even for clinicians with significant expertise in treating trauma. Unfortunately, a majority of clients who engage in high risk behaviors have also experienced significant trauma or meet criteria for PTSD and their trauma related symptoms often prompt suicidal and self-injurious behaviours.

Many clients find themselves stuck in a catch-22; their trauma related symptoms cause severe emotional distress that makes NSSI and suicidal behaviours more likely to occur and these behaviours in turn render them ineligible for many treatments that would address their trauma.

On the other hand, clients without the ability to regulate and tolerate intense emotions and distress can be overwhelmed by trauma treatment and treatment can actually be harmful or dangerous to them.

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, a treatment approach that was initially developed to help people with frequent and intense suicidal behavior who often had histories of trauma, offers tools and structures that help to resolve these very conundrums.

In this talk, attendees can expect to get a brief overview of strategies, tools and lessons learned in the context of DBT that will help them support clients who engage in suicidal behaviours. Clinicians will leave this talk with a few helpful guidelines and tools from DBT that may change their approach and comfort level working with trauma in a safe and effective manner when high risk behaviours are a consideration.

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Handouts

Speaker

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Nathalie Lovasz, PhD is a clinical psychologist and the founder and clinic director of the Ontario DBT Centre. Dr. Lovasz has over fifteen years of experience as a DBT clinician, researcher and supervisor and has received training from various DBT experts including Dr. Marsha Linehan, creator of DBT. Over the course of her career, Dr. Lovasz has established several successful DBT programs, specifically relating to the treatment of complex trauma. Her research on DBT and other clinical topics has been presented at international conferences and published in scientific journals.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Nathalie Lovasz is the founder and clinical director for Ontario DBT Centre. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Nathalie Lovasz has no relevant non-financial relationships.

 


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Objectives

  1. Understand the relationship between trauma and suicidal/high risk behaviours.
  2. Be able to assess readiness for trauma treatment in clients who engage in suicidal behaviours or experience suicidal ideation.
  3. Understand ways to prepare high risk clients for trauma treatment and ways to safely treat trauma in this population.

Outline

Research and Treatment Approaches
  • Overview of research on trauma, suicide risk and other high risk behaviours
    • Current research findings
    • Limitations of current research
    • Approaches to treating trauma in high risk client populations
      • Standard DBT
      • DBT-PE
      • DBT-PTSD
      • CPT
  • Assessing readiness for trauma processing in clients with high risk behaviours
    • Stages of Treatment
    • Requirements for stability – lessons for DBT-PE
    • Tolerating difficult emotions – ways to assess and build
    • Risks of trauma treatment in high risk clients
  • When clients are not ready for trauma processing
    • Options for stabilisation
    • Trauma-informed treatment modifications
    • Residential and inpatient treatments

Target Audience

  • Addiction Professionals
  • Case Managers
  • Licensed Clinical/Mental Health Counselors
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Psychotherapists
  • Psychologists
  • Social Workers

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