Length
2 hour
CE Credit
2.0 unit
Recorded
June 20, 2025
Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO-DBT) is an evidence-based treatment designed to treat people who have disorders of overcontrol, which contribute to relationship difficulties or emotional loneliness. Some of these challenges include eating disorders, avoidant personality disorder, obsessive compulsive personality disorder, some presentations of Autism Spectrum Disorder, treatment-resistant depression, and extreme perfectionism.
This presentation will give practical and immediately applicable skills to mental health professionals wanting to learn more effective strategies for working with over-controlled clients, when other therapies may have been ineffective.
There are several ways to learn from this training. You can either watch the recording for free or take the self-paced course for CE credit. We also have the slides available to download.
(Free) You can watch the full recording of this training for free on our YouTube Channel. This is perfect if you’re not seeking CE credit or would like to preview the training before taking the course.
($37) You can receive 2 hours of self-paced, asynchronous CE credit for this training.
UCEBT is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. UCEBT maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Additionally, this presentation is approved for 2 hours of home-study CE credit through NASW-UT, UAMFT, and UMHCA.
Follow along with the recording by downloading the presentation slides personal use.
However, please note that no part of the materials available through the Utah Center for Evidence Based Treatment may be copied, photocopied, reproduced, translated or reduced to any electronic medium or machine-readable form, in whole or in part, without prior written consent of the presenter and creator of the presentation. Contact info@ucebt.com for questions.
At the conclusion of this presentation, attendees should be able to describe what overcontrolled coping is and learn a set of RODBT skills to target overcontrol.
Learning Objectives:
Describe the characteristics of a client who would be a clinically indicated fit for RODBT.
Describe what overcontrolled coping is and the four core deficits of overcontrol reviewed in the presentation
Be able to name and describe three different RO-DBT skills
Katie Flanagan, Psy.D., clinical psychology. Dr. Flanagan specializes in radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RODBT), traditional dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and complex psychopathology. She is an official RODBT practitioner and has completed all three levels of RODBT training.
Kalee Gross Psy.D., clinical psychology. Dr. Gross works with individuals across the lifespan, though specialized in working with children and adolescents and in specific treatment modalities, including RO-DBT, DBT, CBT, ACT, and PCIT. She has completed two levels of RO-DBT training.
Carl Sallee, Psy.D., clinical psychologist. Dr. Sallee is a generalist who received extensive training in trauma treatment through his predoctoral internship at the VA of Western Colorado in Grand Junction, CO and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at UCEBT on the Anxiety and Mood and DBT teams. He specializes in 3rd wave CBT, and has received extensive training in RO DBT, ACT, and DBT.
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