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In Memoriam – Dr. Perry Hoffman

We learned the tremendously sad news that Dr. Perry Hoffman, co-creator of Family Connections™ and founder of NEABPD, died peacefully at home on November 3rd. We know that this news may come as a shock to many of you. Perry became ill very suddenly five weeks ago with a rapidly debilitating disease. At the onset…
Joan Russo
December 8, 2019
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A mental health professional is like the conductor.

Thoughts from our Public Member - Chris Kallas I remember taking a music class in seventh grade. We learned to read music, and some of the highlights of the history of music. I enjoyed it thoroughly. But with all the other things I was studying, I didn’t study it again. Then about 10 years ago…
Chris Kallas
October 10, 2019
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Why Certification?

Newsletter column by Public Member of the DBT LBC Board, Chris Kallas When someone you love has a mental illness, or even emotional difficulties, you don’t think, “Where can I find someone to help him who has a PhD in clinical psychology, who has at least five years of experience in treating someone with this…
Chris Kallas
August 10, 2019
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Dr Marsha Linehan awarded Emeritus status

With her retirement last month, Dr. Marsha Linehan has been awarded the title of Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Washington, and Director Emeritus of the Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics. Please join us in congratulating her on this honor as she enters the next chapter of a life worth living.
Joan Russo
June 13, 2019
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Reality Check by Juliet Nelson

If Alec Miller challenges you to begin the DBT program certification process together and months pass and you still don’t get going, you might ask yourself, WTF? Why not? Beware, this is not a tale of overcoming obstacles, rising to the occasion and finally accomplishing that goal. This is the tale of a new and…
Joan Russo
June 13, 2019
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May is BPD Awareness Month

Thoughts from our Public Member - Chris Kallas May is BPD Awareness Month. Thanks largely to the efforts of NEA BPD, on April 1, 2008, the U.S. House of Representatives passed House Resolution 1005, which recognized the month of May as Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month. The vote was 414-0. (Nope, not a typo; even…
Chris Kallas
April 28, 2019
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Clinical trial shows dialectical behavior therapy effectiveness in reducing risk in suicidal adolescents.

Adapted from • Science Update, June 27, 2018 Researchers at the University of Washington, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, and collaborators at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor- University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have published findings from a year’s long RTC showing…
Joan Russo
June 28, 2018
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Need a little Inspiration to get Certified?

Consider that DBT's developer, Marsha Linehan, has been profiled in the just released 2018 edition of TIME magazine's Great Scientists. TIME's list of the 100, "geniuses, eccentrics, and visionaries who transformed our world" included Marsha along with such luminaries as Jonas Salk, Marie Curie, Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Margaret Mead, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein and…
Joan Russo
January 11, 2018