About this live event

Learning Objectives

• Describe how DBT skills can be taught to help parents identify and understand their own accommodation behaviors with multi-diagnostic adult children.
• Apply DBT-based acceptance and change strategies to collaboratively help parents decide when to reduce accommodation in the context of high-risk behaviors.
• Demonstrate the ability to coach parents in using selected DBT skills in vivo to help them feel less trapped and more effective in their parenting role.
• Integrate DBT and SPACE principles into a coherent parent-only intervention framework that provides parents the rationale, structure, and skillful means to reduce accommodations with their struggling adult children.

Live event Instructor(s)

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  Amy Kalasunas, LPCC-S, CCMHC

  Chief Operating Officer, Director of DBT Services, DBT-Linehan Board of Certification Certified Clinician™, Center for Evidence Based Treatment

  Amy Kalasunas (she/her), LPCC-S, CCMHC, is a behaviorist with over 25 years of experience working within evidence-based treatment models. A DBT-Linehan Board of Certification™ Certified Clinician, she has extensive training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and its sub-specialty areas of DBT for Eating Disorders, DBT- Prolonged Exposure for Borderline Personality Disorder, and DBT supervision and consultation team adherence practice.

  A co-chair for the DBT LBC™ Publications and Communications Committee, Amy is also a highly regarded instructor and trainer, and a sought-after presenter on the topics of comprehensive Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), DBT and Multi-diagnostic Eating Disorders (MED-DBT), and DBT-Prolonged Exposure and Eating Disorders. She developed, piloted, and offers trainings on interventions for parents of multi-diagnostic adult children using an adaptation of the Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE) protocol and DBT.

  Her clinical work has included developing, implementing and evaluating program outcomes across the spectrum of clinical settings, including inpatient psychiatric hospitals, Partial Hospitalization Programs, Intensive Outpatient Programs, community mental health agencies, specialty practice clinics and private practice offices.