RO DBT Intensive, York (UK)

Course Objectives

Price: Early bird rate: £2000 – for more detailed prices and discounts please see the ‘Prices and Booking’ tab.

Method of Delivery & Content Level: Our intensive training is a two-part fast-track programme at the intermediate training level (e.g., post-doctoral level training for psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists), consisting of 2 x 5-day in-person workshops. After completing the intensive training, practitioners may choose to progress to advanced level training and supervision.

Pre-course reading: Delegates are required to read the RO DBT Textbook and Skills Manual prior to the course.

Certificates: you will receive a certificate of completion for 35 CE hours after each part of the training, provided you have attended all 5 days of each training week; no exceptions will be made. The certificate can be downloaded from your online account after completion of the online evaluation form.

NOTE: if you want your professional license number to be added to your certificate, please add this to your Bio on your online profile page or send your license number to roelie@radicallyopen.net

RO DBT Resources: you will receive 12 months of free access to our online RO DBT Resources. An invitation with your login details will be sent to you 3 months before the start of part 1.

Course overview: This intensive training provides a strong foundation in the theory and practice of RO DBT including:

• A transdiagnostic approach to treatment
• The neuroregulatory model
• The bio-social theory for overcontrol
• Treatment strategies for activation of the PNS social safety system
• The importance of pro-social co-operative signalling – strategies and skills
• Assessing overcontrol
• Treatment structure
• Radical Openness and self enquiry
• Strategies for maintaining the OC client in therapy
• Individualising treatment targets
• RO states of mind
• RO skills
• Treating envy and bitterness
• Role play and case studies
• Micro-analytic supervision

Target audience: Apart from a professional qualification in a mental health or related field (e.g. psychology, psychiatry, social work, mental health nursing) there are no further prerequisites for the course. Previous training in standard DBT is not a requirement for the RO DBT intensive.

For a full list of learning objectives and an example of a typical training schedule, please click here.

Conflicts of interest: We don’t receive any direct commercial support for our training company Radically Open Ltd. However, Dr. Thomas Lynch, the RO DBT treatment developer and chief RO DBT trainer, receives royalty fees for the RO DBT Textbook and Skills Manual from New Harbinger publishers. He is married to Mrs Erica Smith-Lynch, co-owner and director or Radically Open Ltd.

Refund, Cancellation and Grievances

Please see our Terms and Conditions 

If you have any questions, need help or want to discuss accessibility issues, please contact roelie@radicallyopen.net

Trainer Bio’s: Dr Nicole Little, PhD, R.C.C. & Dr Sophie Rushbrook, D.Clin.Psy

You can find more details about our trainers on our Trainer and Supervisor page

Prices & Booking

Prices are for the complete 10 day intensive workshop (2 x 5 days).

• Base price £2750
• With early bird discount (45 days before event): £2000
• Student/Senior Citizen price: £1500 (we will require proof of senior citizenship or current studentship ; applies to both full- and part-time students who do not yet have their practitioner licence)
• 10% discount per person for group booking (min 6)

Please note: the textbook, skills manual & overnight accommodation are not included in the price. However, lunch is included for this training.

Early bird expiry date:  17 September 2021

Click here for our booking and cancellation policy

If you are unable to pay the entire some in full when registering, you will be able to select one of two payment plans.

How to Register

Please click on the Book Today button and complete our registration form to sign up to this training.

Travel Information

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