Telehealth and DBT: Best Practices, Essential Skills, and Ensuring Safety – Lane Pederson

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In this uncertain time, our DBT clients with serious and persistent mental illness need our help more than ever. Yet many of our most vulnerable clients cannot access vital services, making telehealth a literal lifeline.

Yet questions remain: How do therapists take an organized treatment like DBT and use it in a new service delivery? What DBT skills and interventions are most essential? And how do we address safety concerns remotely?

Join Dr. Lane Pederson to get the answers and best practices you need to navigate these unchartered waters.

This recording includes FREE handouts and worksheets.

1. Evaluate four best practices for providing telehealth services
2. Assess level of care concerns related to high need clients
3. Integrate the four components of evidence-based practice
4. Identify the essential elements of DBT to deliver
5. Develop five core skill sets to emphasize with isolated clients
6. Determine steps to ensure safety with at-risk clients

Telehealth Best Practices

• Level of Care concerns
• When Telehealth is the option
• Evidence-based practice guidelines
• Resources

Delivering the Essentials of DBT

• Maintaining structure and predictability
• Use of the dairy card and daily schedule
• Balancing acceptance and change strategies
• Core skills to use during a time of social distancing

Managing Safety Concerns

• Assessment and intervention challenges
• Making (and following) a plan
• Using contingency management
• Role of Consultation