DBT: Maintaining Appropriate Boundaries Through Function and Efficacy

Join licensed clinical psychologist Dr. Faria Kamal for DBT Phone Coaching: Maintaining Appropriate Patient Boundaries Through Function and Efficacy.

This is an interactive synchronous distance learning event. This event will be held on Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM EST.

General registration fee: $37.00. Student/Trainee registertaion fee: $15.00.

Registration deadline is March 27, 2025 at 9am.

This is an intermediate level course.

This webinar offers continuing education credits for psychologists (CE) and social workers (CEU). This learning activity provides 1 CE/CEU hour on appropriate professional boundaries, which is a content area required for psychologists and social workers in New York State. Please review your state's continuing education guidelines for more information on specific CE/CEU requirements.

Employees affiliated with NYSPI/Columbia Psychiatry should email to register.

The very practice of phone coaching often induces anxiety in clinicians, cognizant that individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) frequently struggle with emotional instability, suicidality, and relational difficulties. Consequently, clinicians may imagine phone coaching calls to occur at all/odd hours, envision patients so distressed that they will yell or act out on calls, and fear they may have staying on the phone for hours while disrupting their leisure time with suicidal threats and crises. Even more frequently, clinicians cite concerns about fostering dependency or blurring therapeutic relationship boundaries such that the client starts to see the therapist as a friend they can just call up for support. However, despite these beliefs, the data and evidence show a different reality in which patients benefit in skills generalization and rarely, if ever, do these concerns arise. To address this gap in knowledge between perceived realities of phone coaching and research, this webinar will provide evidentiary basis for conducting phone coaching while maintaining healthy therapeutic boundaries.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify at least 2 functions of phone coaching.
2. Describe 3 skills to employ when maintaining appropriate patient boundaries in phone coaching.

is a licensed clinical psychologist at Columbia Doctors who provides compassionate, collaborative, research-supported therapy to children, adolescents, adults, and families. She serves on the faculty as an Instructor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC).

Dr. Kamal is skilled in the treatment of a number of emotional and behavioral issues, including depression, anxiety, Borderline Personality Disorder, oppositional and defiant behaviors, trauma and addiction. She has particular specialty and has worked extensively with teens and adults with suicidal and self-harming behaviors. Dr. Kamal also has expertise in behavioral parenting skills training and has worked with many parents and caregivers on improving their skills related to positive reinforcement and delivering effective consequences. She also has significant experience working with the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) community, including LGBT teens and young adults, as well as LGBT parents and their children. Dr. Kamal has received training in a number of evidence-based treatment approaches, including Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and is intensively trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).

Dr. Kamal completed her doctoral training at the University of Toronto. She completed her residency/internship and postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Kamal’s research on underserved communities has been published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at numerous academic conferences. She continues to engage in research on effective clinical practices for high risk populations. Dr. Kamal provides trainings on evidence-based practices for professionals and the general public.

This live activity is designated for a maximum of 1 CE credit.

Psychologists: Columbia University Department of Psychiatry is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Columbia University Department of Psychiatry maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Columbia University Department of Psychiatry is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0168. Columbia University Department of Psychiatry maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Social Workers: Columbia University Department of Psychiatry is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0732. Columbia University Department of Psychiatry maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, 1968, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period:7/19/2024-7/19/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1 general continuing education credits.

Please direct any questions about CE credit to [email protected].

Please note that in order to receive your continuing education certificate, you must attend the entire duration of the workshop and complete the evaluation survey. Refunds are not provided for late arrivals or early departures.

Certificates of completion for CEs will be distributed via email, within 7 days of the event, to those meeting the attendance requirements.

It is important that the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry meets the learning needs, goals, and interest of our learners. The Columbia University Department of Psychiatry is fully committed to conducting all activities in strict conformance with the principles, standards, and ethics of the organizations which we are accredited to provide continuing education. We will comply with all legal and ethical responsibilities to be non-discriminatory in promotional activities, program content and in the treatment of program participants.

The Columbia University Department of Psychiatry goes to great lengths to assure fair treatment for all participants and attempts to anticipate problems. Even so, there will be occasional issues that come to the attention of the continuing education program staff and require intervention and/or action on the part of the staff or a member of the continuing education committee. Please contact us for more information on our procedures and guidelines for handling such grievances.

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