Implementation of the DBT STEPS-A Social Emotional Learning Curriculum

Please familiarize yourself with the curriculum and read Part 1, Section 1 prior to the training. A significant portion of the training will work directly from the manual.

DBT in Schools, LLC will provide registered participants with additional training materials in the days prior to training.

• High School & Middle School Teachers
• School Administrators
• School Counselors
• School Mental Health Staff
• Prevention Specialists
• Behavioral Interventionists

DBT Skills in Schools: Skills Training for Emotional Problem Solving for Adolescents (DBT STEPS-A) is a universal social emotional learning (SEL) curriculum designed for middle/high school students in educational settings. The DBT STEPS-A curriculum is designed to help adolescents develop coping strategies and decision-making abilities to use in school and into the future. The DBT STEPS-A curriculum is based on the skills of comprehensive Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) that have shown to be effective with both adults and adolescents experiencing mild to severe levels of emotional and behavioral difficulties. The skills have been adapted for a universal, nonclinical, student population. The curriculum is designed to be taught at Tier I of a multi-tier or RTI system, however, it has been effective at all levels of MTSS implementation.

The training design of DBT STEPS-A curriculum is to establish four basic elements necessary in implementing the curriculum effectively:

A. Background and Development of the DBT STEPS-A curriculum

B. Structure and Implementation Considerations

C. Overview and demonstration of DBT STEPS-A lessons

D. Preparation and participant practice of teaching DBT STEPS-A lessons

1. Understand the development of and rationale for the DBT STEPS-A curriculum in middle and high schools.

2. Understand the continuum of the different applications of DBT in the school context.

3. Understand how DBT STEPS-A curriculum in a school differs from comprehensive DBT clinical treatment.

4. Understand how the DBT STEPS-A curriculum can be implemented within a Multi Tier Systems of Support model

5. Understand the sequence of the curriculum and how it can be adapted to fit my setting.

6. Understand how to use the DBT STEPS-A manual to prepare and deliver SEL lessons to classroom and small group settings.

7. Understand how to use a DBT STEPS-A diary card as a progress monitoring tool with students in the classroom setting.

8. Understand the concept of dialectics and dialectical thinking.

9. Understand the 7 mindfulness skills.

10. Participants will learn how to lead students through a mindfulness exercise and process relevance of exercise after with students.

11. Participants will understand the difference between distress tolerance Crisis Survival and Accepting Reality skills.

12. Participants will understand and practice the teaching of the Distract with ACCEPTS crisis survival skill.

13. Participants will understand and practice the teaching of the Model of Emotions from the emotion regulation module.

14. Participants will understand and practice the teaching of one skill (DEAR MAN or Evaluating Options) from the interpersonal effectiveness module.

15. Identify and address the common barriers to effective implementation.

16. Participants will be able to use of the DBT STEPS-A manual in preparing for and teaching the lessons to the students using a variety of teaching strategies.

7:00am-2:00pm Pacific Time

• 7:00 – 8:30 Morning Session 1

• 8:30 – 8:45 Break

• 8:45 – 9:30 Morning Session 2

• 9:30 – 9:35 Mini break

• 9:35 – 10:30 Morning Session 3

• 10:30 – 11:15 Lunch

• 11:15 – 12:30 Afternoon Session 1

• 12:30 – 12:40 Mini break

• 12:40 – 1:30 Afternoon Session 2

• 1:30 – 1:35 Break

• 1:35 - 2:00 Afternoon Session 3; Evaluations

• Participants attending the entire training may receive a certificate for 16.5 CE Hours.

• This course has been approved by Antioch University Seattle as a continuing education provider.

• DBT in Schools, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7064. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. DBT in Schools, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

• This program is Approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Approval #886826240-8561 for 16.5 continuing education contact hours.

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