We're Getting DBT-LBC Certification!

Marsha M. Linehan, Ph.D., the founder of DBT and a behavioral scientist, is listed among the likes of 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.” She strove to understand and effectively treat suicide - driven by relentless pain of her own and others’ suffering, along with the recognition that psychiatric treatment for suicide was costly in lives and dollars and mostly ineffective. She dedicated her life to developing a set of scientifically proven standards and reliable interventions and then set about to teach as many people as she could. The high stakes made treatment success her sole focus, so she joined with the founding members of DBT-LBC to create a certification process to ensure that those providing DBT meet the highest standards and provide reliable care. Take a look at the work they do and DONATE if you can DBT-LBC. They are working hard to change legislation to improve insurance coverage for evidence-based practices at the Medicaid level and most of the expert adherence coders for certification work on a voluntary basis.

We at BHBA are all committed to demonstrating mastery in DBT and have initiated steps towards program certification. This is not easy to achieve. Yet, we owe it to our patients and our community to pursue this path. Please watch this 15-minute interview with Susan Snyder, LCSW, the Director of Program and Staff Development at BHBA, who is leading this charge. She, and the founder of BHBA, Dr. Bellet, discuss what motivates clinicians to work with trauma and suicide and why certification is important.