This volume is a rich resource for researchers, clinicians, and advanced students seeking an overview of DBT or specific resources related to a research topic or clinical issue. Essential for graduate students, researchers, and professionals.
Michaela Swales PhD is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and Professor in Clinical Psychology North Wales Clinical Psychology Programme & School of Psychology, Bangor University. She trained in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy in Seattle in 1995 with Marsha Linehan and for twenty years ran a clinical programme for suicidal young people in an inpatient service. She was a founder members of the UK DBT Training Team becoming its Director 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 author with Heidi Heard PhD of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: Distinctive Features (2009 & 2017) and Changing Behavior in DBT: Problem-Solving in Action (2015).