Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) & Suicide
About
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Suicide SIG is a like-minded group of academic and health care professionals with expertise and/or interest in the application of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO-DBT) as applied for treatment of individuals with complex/comorbid high risk eating disorders. These treatments are designed for difficult to treat presentations including those exhibiting chronic and acute suicidality and therapy interfering behaviours that can be a barrier to treatment.
Co-chairs
- Raquel Friedman
- Charlotte Thomas
Our Goals
- Educate clinicians, researchers, & the public on the relationship between suicidality, emotional under vs overcontrol, and eating disorders
- Promote utilization of DBT and RO-DBT across eating disorder diagnoses
- Reduce stigma within mental health care around personality disorders, eating disorder behaviors and suicidal thoughts, feelings or behaviors
- Continue identifying new findings related to treating comorbid eating disorders and suicidality
- Promote resource sharing among international professionals related to DBT and RO-DBT
- Discuss evidence based treatment developments to further improve the treatment for eating disorder behaviors
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