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• With Toughness and Caring, a Novel Therapy Helps Tortured Souls
  by Benedict Carey, New York Times
   
• So Far, Holding Up Under Scrutiny
  by Benedict Carey, New York Times
  

Analysis of DBT as an Evidence Based Practice

• The Empirical Basis of Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Summary, Critique, and Implication
  K.R. Scheel (2000) Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice 7:68-86
   
• Commentaries on Scheel
  Drew Westen (2000) Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice 7:92-94
   
• Further Data on Dialectical Behavior Therapy
  K. Koerner; L. A. Dimeff
   
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Current Status, Recent Developments, and Future Directions
  Clive J. Robins and Alex L. Chapman (2003) Journal of Personality Disorders
   
• DBT, FAP, and ACT: How Empirically Oriented Are the New Behavior Therapy Technologies?
  PDF Format, In press, S.C. Hayes, A. Masuda, R. Bissett, J. Luoma; L.F. Geurrero
   

Randomized Controlled Studies

The following can be found at Behavioral Research & Therapy Clinics
All articles are in .pdf format

• Cognitive-behavioral treatment of chronically parasuicidal borderline patients
  Linehan,M.M., Armstrong,H.E., Suarez,A., Allmon,D., Heard,H.L. (1991). Archives of General Psychiatry, 48, 1060-1064.
   
• Impact of treatment accessibility on clinical course of parasuicidal patients": Reply.
  Linehan,M.M., Heard,H.L. (1993) Archives of General-Psychiatry, 50(2): 157-158.
   
• Naturalistic follow-up of a behavioral treatment for chronically parasuicidal borderline patients
  Linehan,M.M., Heard,H.L., Armstrong,H.E. (1993).Archives of General Psychiatry, 50, 971-974.
   
• Interpersonal outcome of cognitive behavioral treatment for chronically suicidal borderline patients.
  Linehan,M.M., Tutek,D.A., Heard,H.L., Armstrong,H.E. (1994). American Journal of Psychiatry, 151, 1771-1776.
   
• Dialectical behavior therapy for patients with borderline personality disorder and drug-dependence
  Linehan,M.M., Schmidt,H., Dimeff,L.A., Craft,J.C., Kanter,J., Comtois,K.A. (1999),American Journal on Addiction, 8(4), 279-292.
   
• Dialectical behavior therapy versus comprehensive validation plus 12-step for the treatment of opioid dependent women meeting criteria for borderline personality disorder
  Linehan, M.M., Dimeff, L.A., Reynolds, S.K., Comtois, K.A., Welch, S.S., Heagerty, P., Kivlahan, D.R. (2002) Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 67(1), 13-26.
   
• Efficacy of dialectical behavior therapy in women veterans with borderline personality disorder
  Koons, C.R., Robins, C.J., Tweed, J.L., Lynch, T.R., Gonzalez, A.M., Morse, J.Q., Bishop, G.K., Butterfield, M.I., Bastian, L.A. (2001). Behavior Therapy, 32(2), 371-390.
   
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy of borderline patients with and without substance use problems: Implementation and long-term effects
  van den Bosch, L.M.C., Verheul, R., Schippers, G.M., van den Brink, W. (2002). Addictive Behaviors, 27(6), 911-923.
   
• A 12-month randomized clinical trial of Dialectical Behavior Therapy for women with borderline personality disorder in the Netherlands
  Verheul, R., van den Bosch, L.M.C., Koeter, M.W.J., de Ridder, M.A.J., Stijnen, T., van den Brink, W. (in press). British Journal of Psychiatry.
   
• Dialectical behavior therapy for binge eating disorder
  Telch, C.F., Agras, W.S., Linehan, M.M. (2001). Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 69(6), 1061-1065.
   
• Dialectical behavior therapy for bulimia nervosa
  Safer, D.L., Telch, C.F., Agras, W.S. (2001). American Journal of Psychiatry, 158(4), 632-634.
   
• Dialectical behavior therapy for depressed older adults: A randomized pilot study
  Lynch, T.R., Morse, J.Q., Mendelson, T., Robins, C.J. (2003). American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 11(1), 33-45.
   

Non-Randomized Controlled Studies

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy adapted for suicidal adolescents
  Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 32(2), 146-157. Rathus, J.H., Miller, A.L. (2002).
   
• Effectiveness of a dialectical behaviour therapy program for incarcerated female juvenile offenders
  Trupin, E.W., Stewart, D.G., Beach, B, Boesky, L. (2002). Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 7, 121-127.
   
• Evaluation of inpatient Dialectical-Behavioral Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder-- A prospective study
  Bohus, M., Haaf, B., Stiglmayr, C., Pohl, U., Boehme, R., Linehan, M. (2000).Behaviour Research and Therapy, 38(9): 875-887.
   
• The development of an inpatient cognitive-behavioral treatment program for borderline personality disorder
  Barley, W.D., Buie, S.E., Peterson, E.W., Hollingsworth, A.S., Griva, M., Hickerson, S.C., Lawson, J.E., Bailey, B.J. (1993). Journal of Personality Disorders, 7(3), 232-240.
   
• Comparison of DBT and "treatment as usual" in suicidal and self-mutilating behavior
  Stanley, B., Ivanoff, A., Brodsky, B, Oppenheim, S. (November, 1998). Paper presented at the 32nd annual convention of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy. Washington, D.C.
   
• The effectiveness of DBT with Forensic Inpatients
  McCann, R.A., Ball E.M. (2000). Institute for Forensic Psychiatry
   

Additional Studies

• The Application of DBT for Patients with BPD on Inpatient Units
  C.R. Swenson MD, C. Sanderson Ph.D, R.A. Dulit MD, M.M. Linehan Ph.D (2002) Psychiatric Quarterly, 72(4), 307-324.
   
• Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Chronically Parasuicidal Patients
  PDF Format, M.M. Linehan, H.E. Armstrong, A. Suarez, D. Allmon, H.L.Heard
   

Clinical News

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• DBT Empowers Abusive Men to Regain Self-Control
  Batya Swift Yasgur
   
• DBT May Be Better for Substance Abuse + BPD
  Jeff Evans
   
• DBT Practical Approach for Eating Disorders
  Batya Swift Yasgur
   
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy Promising for Binge Eating
  Bruce Jancin
   
• CBT Helps Dysfunction in Borderline Personality
  Jeff Evans
   
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy Cuts Self-Mutilating Behavior
  Batya Swift Yasgur
   
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy May Benefit Couples
  Batya Swift Yasgur
   
• So Far, Holding Up Under Scrutiny
  New York Times, 7/13/04, Benedict Carey
  

DBT Programs

• DBT Program in Manchester, NH Wins American Psychiatric Association Award
  American Psychiatric Association