Professor Marsha Linehan is coming to Denmark for a two day conference in core strategies and change strategies in dialectical behavior

The 5. og 6. of september 2011 will the international autority in dialectical behavior therapy professor Marsha Linehan come to Denmark. Marsha M. Linehan (1943) is Professor of Psychology, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington og Director of the Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics.

This workshop is a "once in a lifetime" experience for professionals to meet the founder of DBT. She will show, how to mix mindfulness, acceptance og cognitive behavior therapy in complex clientcases, where professionals and psychiatric wards often burn out. She will show, how to help the client to a safe and stabil life without selfharm and other selfdestructive behaviors.

She has publiced many book about DBT and complex psychiatric patients. She has done much research on selfharm, acceptance, mindfulness and patients with emotional dysregulation and emotional unstabil personality disorders. DBT has shown good results with clients with substance use disorder, eating disorders, selfharm, suicidal behavior and ideation.

She will present the state-of-the-art and updates in DBT and look critically on mechanisms of change in DBT. She will review recent data and implications for providing DBT. There will be focus on critical components of DBT, mechanisms of change and emerging data on adaptions of DBT.

She will present demonstations of clinical practice.