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The Association for Psychological Therapies (APT) is a provider of gold-standard training courses in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) in the UK and Ireland. Since 2010, APT has delivered over 20,000 course completions, mainly within the NHS and leading healthcare providers. It is designed both for those who want to establish ‘full-programme’ DBT services and also for those who want to deliver DBT as individuals.
All of the following DBT training courses are available online for teams and individuals, or we can deliver the training face-to-face in your organisation anywhere in the UK or Ireland for a fixed all-inclusive fee. All training carries APT’s evidence-based accreditation, and include APT’s acclaimed resources for use with clients post-course.
Note: If you’re looking for the course that thousands of mental health professionals have attended, it’s this one: DBT Essentials – giving you all the important elements of DBT along with the resources so that you can start using it straight away to help your clients.
The Association for Psychological Therapies (APT) provides the following training in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) .
3-day course
Instruction in the key components of DBT for those who want to add them to their repertoire without necessarily becoming 'a DBT therapist', and for those thinking of taking the first step in becoming a specialised DBT therapist.
DBT brings together a series of skills and techniques which are powerful and well chosen ones, for working with personality disorder as well as in other areas. Many people want to familiarise themselves with these skills without necessarily becoming a DBT therapist exclusively, and this 3-day course is for you if you are one of those people as well as if you are thinking of taking the first step in becoming a DBT therapist. As well as covering the 'overall concept of DBT', it covers its 'essential elements', namely the concepts of: Validation; Metaphor; Relentless Problem Solving; and Contingency Management, and the skills of: Mindfulness; Distress Tolerance; Interpersonal Effectiveness; and Emotional Regulation.
3-day course
Running skills development groups is an important part of becoming proficient in DBT, and this course provides the coaching and practice to develop such skills.
This course lasts 3 days and is all about learning how to run groups for your clients to help them become skilled in key areas of relevance for them. The rationale is that patients need not only to be motivated, gain insights and knowledge etc, but usually also need to acquire skills in; Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, and Distress tolerance.
4-day course
By attending the DBT Masterclass you are expected to substantially develop both your knowledge of DBT and your skills.
The major teaching techniques on this course are case presentation and discussion, video-presentations, and reflective exercises (where you analyse and describe the practice of DBT in your workplace). You will gain most benefit from this course if you leave a gap of several months between attending DBT Essentials / Running DBT Skills-Development Groups and this one, developing your DBT skills in those months so your have material to present and discuss on this course.
10-day course
Providing 60 hours of training, it includes three courses plus an exam, leading to appropriate APT accreditation.
This is the most comprehensive training in DBT we currently provide, and it has inbuilt APT accreditation to Level 4 for those who complete the relevant exams and masterclass successfully.
3-day course
Instruction in the key components of DBT for those who want to apply DBT to working with adolescents.
DBT brings together a series of skills and techniques which are powerful and well chosen ones, and DBT-A focuses it on working with adolescents. Whether you want to simply learn about DBT and how to apply it effectively, or are thinking of establishing a full DBT service, this course has it covered. The course covers the delivery of effective DBT at its most relevant for adolescents, including: confusion about self, impulsivity, lack of emotional control, interpersonal problems, family problems and dilemmas, high risk behaviours, including suicidal behaviour and non-suicidal self-injury.
An overview of DBT and the training available from the The Association for Psychological Therapies (APT).
The Association for Psychological Therapies has delivered training at the following locations (and more) in the British Isles.
The Association for Psychological Therapies offers various levels of accreditation to professionals who have completed APT training (or similar).
View the most frequently asked questions about Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (e.g. "What is DBT?" and "How does DBT work?").
View the most frequently asked questions in relation to training in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) from the APT.
These annual awards were established to keep people 'enthused' and thinking about how they can apply DBT in their practice.
This is a major undertaking where organisations seek recognition that they are implementing DBT outstandingly well.
From time-to-time, questions arise regarding whether DBT training in the UK requires licensing or accreditation by a particular organisation. This page explains this in more detail.
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