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Running an Effective DBT Skills Group – 21 May 2025
An online live training using Zoom. APAC-DBT members (full and associate): free. Guests: high income country AU$25, lower income country AU$15. Country discounts will be applied at the checkout.
Description
DBT skills training is one of the four core components of standard DBT, and has been demonstrated as a key ingredient underpinning DBT’s efficacy in improving clinical outcomes (Linehan et al., 2015). Further, use of DBT skills has been found to mediate the effects of DBT among patients with BPD and other clinical conditions (Karam et al., 2022; Neacsiu et al., 2010), highlighting the importance of teaching DBT skills effectively to maximize clinical benefits. In this workshop, Prof Shian-Ling Keng will present on tips and strategies on starting, structuring, and running a standard DBT skills group in a clinical setting. She will discuss factors to consider when starting a DBT skills group, as well as evidence-based curriculums to reference in developing a DBT skills teaching plan. Tips on skills teaching, conducting homework review, and missing chain analysis will be presented, with an opportunity for interaction with the audience in regards to strategies to run an effective DBT skills group.
Details:
Date: 21 May 2025, 10am – 11:30am (Time-zones: Perth – AU / Beijing – China)
Where: Zoom – we will email the link
Price:
- Guests: High income country: AU$25.00, Low to medium-income country: AU$15
- Members (full and associates): Free. If you join APAC-DBT you can register for free.
Please note: This is a live web-based training. It will not be recorded. Participants must agree to a no recording policy. Registrations are for one person only.
Presenter bio:
Shian-Ling Keng, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Psychology, School of Medical and Life Sciences at Sunway University, Malaysia. She is trained as a clinical psychologist, and her research focuses on the effects and mechanisms through which mindfulness-based interventions affect psychological and physical health. Additionally, she is interested in examining cross-cultural presentations of psychological disorders (e.g., borderline personality disorder), and adaptations of evidence-based interventions (e.g., DBT) in low resource contexts.
Dr. Keng received her B.Sc., M.A., and PhD in Clinical Psychology at Duke University in the United States, and completed her clinical residency at Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada. Prior to joining Sunway University, she taught at Monash University Malaysia, and was a tenured associate professor and Head of Studies (Psychology) at Yale-NUS College, and assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the National University of Singapore.
Clinically, Dr. Keng has received intensive training in CBT, DBT, and mindfulness-based intervention approaches. She is a clinician certified by the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, and a qualified teacher of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR). She serves as Chair of the Provisional Board of the Asia-Pacific Association for DBT, and sits on the Board of Directors of the World DBT Association.
Terms and conditions
- A registration is for one person. To successfully manage the event, we expect only one person to join the webinar as part of your registration.
- You agree not to record the meeting in any way. You agree not to distribute materials to other persons without prior agreement.
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Registrations are confirmed only when payment is received. Payment must be made before the training.
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Payment for the event is non-refundable. If you are unable to attend the event, a colleague may be substituted for no extra charge, if we are notified at least two business days before the event.
- In the unlikely event the training is cancelled by the organisers, registration will be fully refunded, but no liability will be accepted for travel, accommodation or other costs/expenses incurred to registrants.