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Letter from the President’s Desk – November 2020

What are you grateful for? Greetings all, The chatter in our conference rooms or our cafeterias is replaced with the disquiet we are experiencing in our social distancing bubbles. These new adjustments have made everyday normalcies like getting dressed in the mornings or making dinner feel like the day’s greatest achievements. It is extremely easy to…
Kimberly
November 8, 2020
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Focus on DBT & Prolonged Exposure

Exciting news from the research corner on the effectiveness of delivering the DBT-PE protocol! Check out this article by M.S. Harned, S.C. Schmidt, K.E. Korslund, et al., Does Adding the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Prolonged Exposure (DBT PE) Protocol for PTSD to DBT Improve Outcomes in Public Mental Health Settings? A Pilot Nonrandomized Effectiveness Trial with…
Joan Russo
November 8, 2020
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Dr. Linehan named as one of the Great Scientists.

Marsha M. Linehan, Ph.D., the founder of DBT and a behavioral scientist, is listed among the likes of Salk, Curie, Darwin, Einstein, Newton, and Hawking as one of the great scientists of our time in Time Magazine’s “Great Scientists: The Geniuses and Visionaries Who Transformed Our World.” because of her tireless efforts to understand and…
Joan Russo
November 8, 2020
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Special Edition Newsletter. We are all in this together

As we find ourselves in the midst of a global health crisis, we have all had to find our new norm. With that comes many unexpected challenges that we have not had an opportunity to prepare for. So many of us are faced with the challenge of balancing work and home and creating a system…
Kimberly
October 15, 2020
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Letter from the New President’s Desk

Hello all My name is Kimberly Vay and I am humbled to have been elected as the new President of DBT-LBC and will be working alongside Joan Russo, Immediate Past President. I am so excited to work with the DBT-LBC organization in this new role. Congratulations to Dan Finnegan on his new position as Treasurer.…
Kimberly
April 2, 2020
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Letter from the President’s Desk – March 2020

Wow. It’s hard to believe DBT-LBC has been in operation for over 5 years now. One of our Policies and Procedures states that we will review our certification process every 5 years. We’ve spent about 12 months of intense examination doing so, consulted with other organizations offering certification and also with two organizations that do…
Kimberly
March 7, 2020
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Letter from the Old President’s Desk

Well former president, anyway. I thought I’d share why DBT, DBT-LBC and working as a Board member has made my career as a psychologist a true “life worth living.” I hope it encourages you too. After I graduated with my Ph.D. in 1985, I started a private practice in Brookfield WI. I didn’t intend to…
Joan Russo
March 1, 2020
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The parent of a child who is ill feels pain

Thoughts from our Public Member - Chris Kallas The parent of a child who is ill feels pain. The parent of a child who is mentally ill feels pain, along with a whole host of other emotions: fear, anger, and lots of frustration: at the inability of the doctors to ‘cure’, at the coldness of…
Chris Kallas
February 8, 2020
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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