Continuing Education
| Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): An Introduction | ||||||||||||||||||||
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a comprehensive cognitive-behavioral approach, integrated with eastern practices of mindfulness, for the treatment of borderline personality disorder. Developed by Marsha Linehan, DBT is especially effective for those with chronic patterns of life threatening, impulsive, and other self-destructive behaviors related to problems in emotion regulation. Research has shown DBT to effectively reduce suicidal behavior, dropout from treatment, psychiatric hospitalization, anger, interpersonal difficulties, and substance use. This workshop will provide an overview of the principles and specific protocols in DBT via didactic lecture, videotape, clinical vignettes, and role play. All four modules of standard DBT will be introduced as well as the applicability of DBT to other patient populations across a wide variety of clinical settings. Instructor Biography  Mark Rosenthal, LCSW, has been a clinical social worker at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute Partial Hospitalization Program since 2000 and has a private practice in San Francisco, where his primary focus and interest has been working with patients with Borderline Personality Disorder. With extensive experience providing individual and group therapy using Dialectical Behavioral Therapy techniques, he also provides training to psychiatric residents and other staff on Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.For information about our Dialectical Behavior Therapy series, click here. |
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