CARE Institute

The Dialectics of DBT: Beyond the Skills

objectives:

Participants will be able to:

• Identify correlations between behaviorism, brain development, and depression/anxiety in today’s younger generations.
• Consider the multifaceted approach of ‘dialectics’—that multiple opposing factors can all be true at once.
• Help clients identify the challenges in their lives that stand in the way of their values.
• Understand and implement grounding and acceptance skills to promote lasting behavioral change in our clients.

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Embodied Recovery: Using Somatic Interventions to Support Addiction Treatment

Substance use, trauma, craving, and recovery are closely connected to how the nervous system responds to stress. This session explores addiction through a somatic, nervous system-informed lens, including how dysregulation can contribute to substance use and influence treatment engagement. Participants will learn practical somatic interventions that can complement evidence-based approaches such as Motivational Interviewing, CBT, DBT, and relapse prevention, with strategies that can be applied across the continuum of addiction treatment.

objectives

Participants will be able to:

• Explain the relationship between trauma, nervous system dysregulation, and substance use through a somatic framework.
• Describe how autonomic nervous system states can influence craving, relapse, emotional regulation, and treatment engagement.
• Demonstrate three to five somatic interventions that can be safely integrated into addiction treatment across levels of care.

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Creating Change: Communication Strategies for Working with the Whole Family

objectives

Participants will be able to:

• Identify how stress, fix, and avoidance responses can present in both young people and their caregivers.
• Recognize when a client’s presentation is shaped by the family stress environment and caregivers should be engaged in care.
• Apply “yes, and” and generous-interpretation strategies to strengthen therapeutic alliance and connection.
• Understand how connection signals safety across the clinician, caregiver, and child relationship to support family-centered care and trauma mitigation.

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Motivational Interviewing for Adolescents and Emerging Adults

objectives:

Participants will be able to:

• • Define the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing.
• Define ambivalence and recognize Change Talk and Sustain Talk.
• Define and use the OARS skills.
• Identify key biological, psychosocial, and cognitive characteristics of adolescent development.
• Describe specific instances where Motivational Interviewing is indicated for clinical work with adolescents and emerging adults.

Right Level, Right Time: Navigating ASAM Levels of Care for Alcohol Use Disorder

Learning objectives:

• Define alcohol use disorder (AUD) and briefly describe ways a professional may be able to screen and diagnose these patients.
• List and describe the six ASAM dimensions and explain how they influence level-of-care placement for individuals with alcohol use disorder.
• Differentiate between outpatient, intensive outpatient, high intensity outpatient, residential, and withdrawal management levels of care for AUD based on clinical risk factors.
• Identify at least three indicators that warrant referral to medically monitored or medically managed withdrawal services.
• Apply ASAM criteria to case examples to determine the most appropriate level of care.
• Formulate appropriate referral questions to improve placement accuracy and decrease time to safe placement.

The Dialectics of DBT: Beyond the Skills

Learning objectives:

• Discover some of the correlations between behaviorism, brain development, and depression/anxiety in today’s younger generations.
• Consider the multifaceted approach of ‘dialectics’— that multiple opposing factors can all be true at once.
• Apply dialectics to work with clients to identify the challenges in their lives that stand in the way of their values.
• Understand and implement grounding and acceptance skills to promote lasting behavioral change in our clients.

Raising the Bar on Treatment Outcomes

Learning objectives:

• Explain measurement-based care and its benefits for therapeutic integration.
• Compare multifaceted approaches in tracking client progress to improve outcomes.
• Identify and describe processes and procedures for implementing measurement-based care practices and ethical outcomes reporting into their own practice or facility.
• Summarize the importance of MBC in assessment of risk and higher level of care referrals.