Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) Course : Skills, Challenges & Clinical Realities

About Course

What this course delivers:

Rather than approaching DBT as a checklist of skills, the focus is on how DBT functions in practice — how to understand emotional dysregulation, structure interventions, and work through challenging clinical situations.

You will work through:
– understanding the biosocial model in clinical context
– applying DBT principles to self-harm, suicidality, and personality pathology
– using mindfulness and validation in a clinically meaningful way
– implementing distress tolerance and emotion regulation strategies step-wise
– handling interpersonal effectiveness within therapeutic and real-world contexts
– navigating common challenges in DBT practice

How the learning is structured

The teaching follows a clinical progression:

Foundations → Skills → Application → Challenges → Case discussions

Each stage builds into the next, reflecting how DBT is actually practiced — not as isolated modules, but as an integrated therapeutic approach.

Approach and faculty

The course is taught through a clinician-led, multi-disciplinary perspective.

Clinical psychologists and psychiatrists contribute complementary approaches — allowing participants to understand how DBT is adapted across different clinical settings, rather than applied in a rigid, manualized way.

Who this is meant for

This is intended for:
– Psychiatrists
– Clinical psychologists
– Psychiatry residents
– Psychology trainees and early-career therapists

It is not designed as a self-help or purely theoretical course.

Access and certification

All sessions are available as recordings for a limited duration, allowing structured revision.
A certificate of participation is issued for those attending the live training.

Outcome

The aim is not just to learn DBT skills, but to understand how to use them —
to move from knowing the modules to applying DBT in real clinical work with clarity and confidenc