Introduction to Radically Open Dialetical Behaviour Therapy (RO-DBT) for Disorders of Over Control

About this event

Presented by Dr Sophie Rushbrook

Kathleen Syme Library & Community Centre, Carlton VIC

Wednesday 17 April 2024, 9.00am – 5.00pm

 

The aim of this workshop is to introduce clinicians to the theoretical foundations and skills underlying Radically Open-Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (RO DBT) for disorders of over-control (Lynch, 2018). Self-control, the ability to inhibit competing urges, impulses, or behaviours is highly valued by most societies. However, excessive self-control has been linked to social isolation, aloof interpersonal functioning, maladaptive perfectionism, constricted emotional expressions, and difficult-to-treat mental health problems, such as anorexia nervosa, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder and refractory depression.

 

Upon completion of this one-day training, participants will be able to:
1. Explain a new biosocial theory for Over-Control
2. Describe the RO-DBT treatment structure
3. Describe new RO-DBT treatment strategies designed to enhance willingness for self-inquiry and flexible
responding
4. Describe the RO-DBT treatment hierarchy
5. Describe a novel treatment mechanism positing open expression = trust = social connectedness
6. List examples of strategies designed to improve pro-social cooperative signalling via activation of the
parasympathetic nervous system’s social-safety system