Online Resources

BC Mood Disorders Association

Behavioral Technology Transfer Group

Borderline Personality Disorder online support group

Borderline Personality Treatment

Bordertown DBT mailing list

National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder

Treatment and Research Advancements: National Association for Personality Disorders

DBT in the News

Time Magazine: The Mystery of Borderline Personality Disorder

New York Times: With Toughness and Caring, a Novel Therapy Helps Tortured Souls

New York Times: So Far, Holding Up Under Scrutiny

Online Articles

For Whom Has Research Shown DBT to be Most Effective (Behavioral Tech, PDF)

List of empirically supported treatments

Recommended Books

Chapman, A., & Gratz, K. (2007). The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.

Miller, A. L., Rathus, J. H., & Linehan, M. M. (2006). Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents. New York: Guildford.

Linehan, M. M. (1993). Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. New York: Guilford.

Linehan, M. M. (1993). Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder. New York: Guilford.

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Recent Articles on DBT

Chapman, A. L., Gratz, K. L., & Brown, M. (2006). Solving the puzzle of deliberate self-injury: The experiential avoidance model. Behaviour Research & Therapy, 44, 371-394.

Koons, C., Chapman, A.L., Betts, B., O’Rourke, B., & Robins, C.J. (2006). Dialectical behavior therapy adapted for the vocational rehabilitation of significantly disabled mentally ill adults. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 13, 146-156.

Linehan, M. M., Comtois, K. A., Murray, A. M., Brown, M. Z., Gallop, R.J., Heard, H. L, Korslund, K.E., Tutek, D.A., Reynolds, S.K., Lindenboim, N. (2006) Two-year randomized controlled trial and follow-up of dialectical behavior therapy vs therapy by experts for suicidal behaviors and borderline personality disorder. Archives of General Psychiatry, 63(7), 757-766.

Lynch, T. R., Chapman, A. L., Rosenthal, M. Z., Kuo, J. K., & Linehan, M. M. (2006). Mechanisms of change in dialectical behavior therapy: Theoretical and empirical observations. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 62, 459-480.