This course aims to increase knowledge and skill to apply a Dialectical Behavior Therapy-informed approach to client care, and offers the opportunity to receive CE credits. This course uses a selection of learning tools such as expert discussion and explanation and role-plays. After finishing this course, you should be able to explain the difference between a DBT-informed approach and how it contrasts with implementing a full DBT approach, describe an accurate therapeutic DBT-informed paradigm shift that informs the practitioner’s perspective on clients’ symptoms and presentation, evaluate the DBT model as it pertains to client assessment and orientation, including setting client expectations and maintaining them, treatment contracts, and setting client priorities in individual client sessions, and define four skills that can be imparted to clients in building their DBT toolkits over time and in an individual format. The course also includes supplementary tools like printable resources and short videos for you and your clients, available on lms.psychhub.com.  This is Part I of a two-part course. CE Credits:  2.50 continuing education/contact hours for psychologists and social workers / 2.25 continuing education hours for counselors and marriage and family therapists. Target Audience: Mental Health Practitioners, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Psychologists, Mental Healthcare Students Level of Instruction: Intermediate   AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (APA) Psych Hub is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Psych Hub maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Psychologists completing this course receive 2.50 continuing education credits. ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORK BOARDS (ASWB) Psych Hub, #1750, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Psych Hub maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 08/20/2021 – 08/20/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 2.50 clinical continuing education credits. CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS (CAMFT) Psych Hub is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs. Psych Hub maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. CAMFT Approval #1000074. Course meets the qualifications for 2.25 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. NATIONAL BOARD FOR CERTIFIED COUNSELORS (NBCC) Psych Hub has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7051. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Psych Hub is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. Counselors completing this course receive 2.25 continuing education hours.