April 8, 2021
8:30am-12:30pm CST
9:30am-1:30pm EST

The Great Lakes MHTTC offers this training for mental health and other behavioral health professionals in HHS Region 5: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, and WI.

Distress Tolerance Skills module is the fifth in a series of seven DBT modules that will be presented every three weeks.

Upcoming DBT Training webinars: (click on title to for link to registration for each session)

DBT: Adolescent Adaptation Part I
April 29. 2021    1:00–5:00 pm CST/2:00–6:00 pm EST

DBT: Adolescent Adaptation Part II
May 20, 2021  1:00–5:00 pm CST/2:00–6:00 pm EST

This module includes crisis survival skills, building distress tolerance, and teaching reality acceptance skills.

Learning Objectives

• Learn the relationship between distress tolerance skills and the secondary targets of inhibited emotions and unrelenting crisis.  
• Learn and be able to teach and illustrate the crisis survival skills of DBT.
• Learn and be able to teach and illustrate the reality acceptance skills of DBT.

Audience:

Mental health clinicians, community outreach workers, SUD counselors, crisis workers.

Presenter: 

Neal Moglowsky, L.P.C.
DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, DBT Certified Clinician™

Neal Moglowsky earned his MS degree in Educational Psychology from UW-Milwaukee and is a Licensed Professional Counselor.  He completed advanced training in the treatment of anxiety disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and panic disorder.  Neal also enjoys working with couples.  He has been intensively trained in Exposure/Response Prevention for the treatment of anxiety disorders, as well as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for difficulties regulating emotions.  Neal has been conducting DBT skills training groups since 1997.  He also has an interest in integrating mindfulness practices into his clinical work to help increase self-awareness and teach clients how to better control their focus and attention.  Neal has an infectious sense of commitment and motivation to enhance the health of the clients he works with.  His goal is to empower his clients to let their values and ethics drive their life choices rather than their emotions and impulses.  Neal is a Certified DBT Clinician through the Linehan Board of CertificationTM.