About this course

Learning Objectives

• Discern between emotional dysregulation and emotional leakage behaviors.
• Explain why DBT treatment for a client with emotional leakage would be ineffective.
• Differentiate the treatment targets in DBT vs RO-DBT

Learning Levels

• Beginner: Little to no prior knowledge of RO-DBT.
• Intermediate: Those seeking to deepen understanding of how RO-DBT and DBT connect.
• Advanced: Strong RO-DBT knowledge but new to traditional DBT.

Target Audience

Course Instructor(s)

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  Laura Goldstein, LCMFT

  Owner and Therapist, Montgomery County Counseling Center and TheraCourses

  Laura Goldstein is a licensed clinical marriage and family therapist in Rockville MD. She is the founder and Executive Director of Montgomery County Counseling Center and the founder of TheraCourses! She has worked across multiple settings including in-home behavioral health services, IOPS for adolescent dual diagnosis treatment and young adults struggling to launch, and her private practice. 

  Laura is trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) from Behavioral Tech and has been fine tuning the application of DBT into individual therapy, parent coaching, and family therapy. She also trained in 2017 with The Gottman Couples Method, which is a seamless integration of DBT concepts when working with couples. With over 12 years of experience in the field, Laura has established herself as a local expert in relationship therapy, public speaking, and therapy practice management.

  In 2022, she launched TheraCourses, an e-course platform with innovative solutions to address the obstacles of accessing affordable psychoeducation that parents need in order to prevent and/or treat the adolescent mental health crisis we face today.

Disclosure

References

• Hatoum, A. H., & Burton, A. L. (2024). Applications and efficacy of radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RO DBT): A systematic review of the literature. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 80, 2283–2302. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.23735
• Lynch, Thomas & Gray, Katie & Hempel, Roelie & Titley, Marian & Chen, Eunice & O'Mahen, Heather. (2013). Radically open-dialectical behavior therapy for adult anorexia nervosa: Feasibility and outcomes from an inpatient program. BMC psychiatry. 13. 293. 10.1186/1471-244X-13-293.
• Van Dijk, S. (2017, February 14). How is RO-DBT different from DBT? New Harbinger Publications. https://www.newharbinger.com/blog/professional/how-is-ro-dbt-different-from-dbt/
• Hempel, R. J. (2019, December 2). Using Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO DBT) to treat problems of overcontrol. Psychology Tools. https://www.psychologytools.com/articles/using-radically-open-dialectical-behavior-therapy-ro-dbt-to-treat-problems-of-overcontrol