Level 1 lays the foundations for becoming an RO DBT Practitioner or RO Skills Instructor. It consists of 6 pre-recorded webinars totalling 8 hours of teaching materials, as well as 6 quizzes. You will learn the underlying theories supporting RO DBT that are essential for understanding the treatment and for being able to explain the treatment to your clients. The overall aim of Level 1 is to assess whether you have clients who are overcontrolled and may benefit from RO DBT. After completing Level 1, clinicians can choose to continue Level 2 of the RO DBT Practitioner Pathway or the Skills Instructor Pathway.
Level 2 for Skills Instructors follows on from Level 1 of the RO DBT Therapist Training program and is a slimmed down version designed for clinicians who only wish to be able to lead or co-lead RO DBT Skills Classes. Level 2 for Skills Instructors consists of 17 on-demand webinars with 22.5 hours of teaching materials, divided into eight parts. Each part ends with a quiz and an evaluation, which both need to be completed in order to receive a certificate of completion. Level 2 for Skills Instructors includes the following parts:
Part 1: Radical Openness & Self-Enquiry
Part 2: Effective Treatment Structuring
Part 3: The Key Mechanism of Change
Part 4: Therapeutic Use of Social Signaling
Part 5: Therapeutic Stance, Teasing and Silliness
Part 6: Skills Training in Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Part 7: Alliance Ruptures and Repairs
Part 8: Dealing with Disguised Demands