Title: Practicing Emotion Validation with Our Students and Ourselves

Date: February 7, 2022

Speaker: Wendy Bamatter, Ph.D., Staff Psychologist, 3East DBT Residential Program, McLean Hospital, Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Description: Developing strong emotion validation skills can foster increased confidence and effectiveness in working with students and colleagues, especially in high intensity situations. Drawing from the latest research, this talk will review the positive effects of validation and negative consequences of invalidation. Participants will learn strategies from Dialectical Behavior Therapy interventions to validate others and themselves more effectively in the service of fostering improved communication skills and emotion regulation in difficult moments.