Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences DBT Training

The University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences offers DBT training to the UW Medicine, Seattle Children's, VA Puget Sound, and other UW affiliated clinical programs. Training is open to 3rd and 4th year psychiatry residents, pre-doctoral psychology interns, post-doctoral fellows, faculty, and clinical staff free of charge. Licensed professionals may obtain CEs for a processing fee. For the 2021 training year, we will be offering limited slots to non-UW/SCH affiliated community clinicians.  See community registration page for fee structure. ​This training is designed at the post-graduate level and is not appropriate for most currently enrolled graduate students (rare exceptions may be made for advanced clinical doctoral students in approved DBT practicums). Please read through this and other linked pages before registering for training. 

​Lead Instructors: Kate Comtois, PhD, MPH and Freda Liu, PhD
Training Coordinators: Cameron Casey and Rachel Childs, ARNP

​Email: dbtcams@uw.edu
To accommodate different levels of interest, the program is built into two levels of training and additional clinical rotation (if applicable)
  • A Workshop (2 days) that is an introduction to DBT
  • A Seminar series (21 sessions), which provides the didactic material for conducting the treatment 
  • Clinical Training, which provides supervised clinical experience with DBT
You can choose to do any level but
  • you must attend the workshop to attend the seminar 
  • ​you must have completed or be enrolled in the seminar to participate in the clinical training

Workshop

This 2-day DBT WORKSHOP is held on 2 sequential Sundays in July from 9am-5pm. 
  • Day 1 (taught by Dr. Kate Comtois) focuses on the theory and structure of DBT and provides an overview of treatment strategies.
  • Day 2 (taught by Dr. Adam Carmel) focuses on behavioral analysis, commitment, and crisis strategies with an emphasis on effective initial sessions with a DBT client.
The workshop meets the criteria for the WA State Suicide Assessment, Management, and Treatment training for all disciplines in the UW system (required once every 6 years).​

Seminar

The DBT SEMINAR meets weekly on Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. via Zoom from July through December. The first seminar starts the week after the workshop.
  • Covers all the theoretical underpinning and major strategies of DBT as well as DBT applications with adolescents.
  • Involves weekly reading,  homework, and and self-graded final exam
  • Is taught by a Seattle area supervising DBT clinicians.
  • You must have webcam (or smartphone/tablet front-facing camera) access to participate in seminar sessions.

Clinical Training

CLINICAL TRAINING: Supervised individual and group therapy opportunities are available to a LIMITED number of psychology interns, psychiatry residents, post-doctoral fellows, and/or staff.
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