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Dialectical Behaviour Therapy

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Have you ever wondered what exactly DBT is?  What are its essential components? What exactly are dialectics and why are they relevant to a psychological therapy?  In this presentation, Professor Michaela Swales, an international expert in DBT, introduces you to the essential elements of DBT: underlying theories, treatment structure and treating clinical cases.

This presentation is aimed at those who know very little about DBT and who may be considering whether or not it is an appropriate intervention for their context, or for those who have heard about DBT and are curious to know more.  There will be an opportunity to discuss the presented material and to assess whether DBT would be a good fit for your organisation or your clinical context.

Reading Recommendations:

  • https://behavioraltech.org/resources/faqs/dialectical-behavior-therapy-dbt/
  • A brief outline can be found in the following article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2963469/pdf/PE_3_9_62.pdf
  • A good introductory text to the treatment is: Swales, M & Heard H (2017).  Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: Distinctive Features.  Second Edition.  London: Routledge

About the Speaker:

Professor Michaela Swales, PhD
Professor Michaela Swales, PhD

Michaela Swales, PhD, is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with BCUHB and Reader in Clinical Psychology on the North Wales Clinical Psychology Programme at Bangor University. She trained in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy in Seattle in 1994 and 1995 with Marsha Linehan and for twenty years ran a clinical programme for suicidal young people in an inpatient service. 

After completing specialist supervision in DBT, she became one of the founder members of the UK DBT Training Team in 1997 and Director of the Training Team in 2002. She has trained more than a thousand professionals in DBT, seeding over 400 programmes, in both the UK and further afield. She is the co-author of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: Distinctive Features, which had its second edition published by Routledge in 2016 and Changing Behavior in DBT: Problem-Solving in Action, published by Guilford in 2015.

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