CE Info
Earn up to 10 CE Credit Hours
Before the event, you will receive an email from CE-Go with access to the virtual event. After the event, you will receive access to your evaluation and continuing education certificate via a personalized "attendee dashboard" link, hosted on the CE-Go website. This link and access to the virtual event will be sent to the email account you used to register for the event.
Upon accessing the CE-Go "attendee dashboard", you will be able to:
- Complete evaluation forms for the event
- Download your continuing education certificate in a PDF format
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Target Audience
This educational activity is intended for behavioral health professionals, including:
Licensed mental health clinicians (psychologists, LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCs, licensed counselors, psychiatrists, NPs in behavioral health) with prior DBT training
DBT team members seeking to expand skills into couples and relational work
Clinicians whose individual DBT clients are impacted by significant relationship dysfunction
DBT program leaders interested in building a couples component into their practice or program
Clinicians at any stage of DBT practice—no couples therapy background required
Licensed mental health clinicians (psychologists, LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCs, licensed counselors, psychiatrists, NPs in behavioral health) with prior DBT training
DBT team members seeking to expand skills into couples and relational work
Clinicians whose individual DBT clients are impacted by significant relationship dysfunction
DBT program leaders interested in building a couples component into their practice or program
Clinicians at any stage of DBT practice—no couples therapy background required
Continuing Education Credit Hours are available from the following organizations
Joint Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, CE Learning Systems is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
American Psychological Association
Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.
New York Education Department's State Board for Social Work
CE Learning Systems, LLC (d/b/a impactce.com) is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #0060.
New York Education Department for Licensed Mental Health Counselors
CE Learning Systems, LLC (d/b/a impactce.com) is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0072.
New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology
CE Learning Systems, LLC (d/b/a impactce.com) is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #PSY-0016.
New York Education Department's State Board for Marriage and Family Therapy
CE Learning Systems, LLC (d/b/a impactce.com) is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Marriage and Family Therapy as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MFT-0045.
Event Learning Objectives
- Describe key empirically-supported patterns that distinguish stable, satisfied couples from those at risk for high conflict.
- Explain how emotional dysregulation, invalidation, and behavioral reactivity show up in couples’ transactions and contribute to relational distress.
- Identify how the transactional model applies to couple and family systems, including the role of reciprocal invalidation and environmental reinforcement of dysfunctional behavior patterns.
- Conduct a comprehensive DBT-informed couples assessment, including evaluation of relationship history, current interaction patterns, individual psychopathology, safety concerns, and each partner’s treatment goals.
- Apply Fruzzetti’s framework for assessing accurate versus inaccurate emotional expression, validation, and invalidation within the couple system as a basis for treatment planning.
- Identify key special considerations for couples work, including ongoing intimate partner violence, severe individual psychopathology, and asymmetric motivation.
- Apply DBT with Couples’s treatment hierarchy, including how to integrate it to individual DBT hierarchy, when needed.
- Describe how to structure the opening phase of DBT with Couples, including getting started, orienting both partners to treatment, building shared commitment, and establishing the treatment relationship.
- Identify and manage common therapy-interfering behaviors in couples sessions, including in-session escalation.
- Apply DBT commitment strategies within the couples context to strengthen each partner’s commitment to change and to the treatment process.
- Identify and use couples specific in-session stragies.
- Implement both individual and relationship-specific skills from Fruzzetti’s model, including accurate emotional expression, reciprocal validation, and behavioral change through relationship skill-building.
- Conduct a double behavioral analyses within couples sessions, including identifying precipitating events, each partner’s emotional and behavioral responses, and collaborative identification of skillful alternatives.
- Identify strategies for managing in-session emotional escalation effectively.
- Describe how DBT with Couples can be structured as an adjunct to individual DBT treatment, including coordination with individual therapists, maintaining treatment hierarchy consistency, and integrating couples work into a comprehensive DBT plan.
- Identify transactional treatment targets in a DBT individual case conceptualization and determine when referral or initiation of couples work is clinically indicated.