DBT Teams: Development and Practice
DBT Teams: Development and Practice is now available in Korean.
This book is the third volume in Guilford Press’s DBT Practice Series. It was written for therapists who wish to practice more competent, sophisticated Dialectical Behavior Therapy while remaining faithful to the DBT protocol.
Why This Book Matters
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is not simply a set of treatment techniques. It is a comprehensive treatment system composed of individual therapy, skills training, phone coaching, and the consultation team.
Any therapist who has practiced DBT in real clinical settings has likely encountered the pressure of maintaining consistency and effectiveness throughout treatment, while also facing the accumulating fatigue and burnout that can come with the work.
This book begins precisely with that concern. DBT Teams: Development and Practice helps readers understand DBT not merely as a treatment method, but as a sustainable treatment structure. It shows clearly how the quality and stability of treatment depend not only on the skills of an individual therapist, but also on the team and consultation structure that support the treatment.
The Core Value of This Book
DBT Teams: Development and Practice does not focus only on the question, “How does one become a good therapist?” Rather, it asks, “How is good treatment sustained?”
The book offers concrete answers to questions such as:
- How should a DBT treatment team be formed?
- What role should the consultation team actually play?
- How can therapists experience support and validation within the team?
- What kind of structure helps prevent therapist burnout while maintaining treatment quality?
In particular, the book offers a detailed account of the consultation team as a central pillar that sustains DBT treatment. Rather than replacing the foundational DBT manuals, it is designed to complement and expand their application in real clinical practice.
Why This Book Can Be Trusted
DBT Teams: Development and Practice was written by Jennifer H. R. Sayrs, PhD, ABPP, a student of Marsha Linehan, Director of the DBT Center at Evidence Based Treatment Centers of Seattle (EBTCS), and a founding team member of EBTCS, together with Dr. Linehan herself.
Drawing on years of experience in actual DBT clinical settings, the book systematically presents the principles of team-based treatment and DBT consultation teams.
The publication of this book in Korea is especially meaningful because it emerges from more than 20 years of DBT education, translation, and clinical practice led by Songhee Chae and Yong Cho, PhD.
This is not simply a translated volume. It stands in continuity with DBT practice that has been tested, developed, and accumulated within the realities of Korean clinical work.
“With the full support of Marsha Linehan, Tony DuBose, then Director of Evidence Based Treatment Centers of Seattle (EBTCS), and Jennifer Sayrs, who currently leads EBTCS, provided tremendous support in helping establish and operate the DBT Center of Korea. I later received intensive education and training from Dr. Sayrs for approximately three years, and this training offered practical help in applying DBT to a wide range of clinical presentations, including children and adolescents.
Dr. Sayrs has an extraordinary ability to guide change in clients, trainees, and team members through a deeply validating stance. She also has the remarkable capacity to integrate any question or challenge dialectically. Throughout this book, readers will find her sensitivity, warmth, and wisdom drawn from many years of clinical experience. It is a great honor for me to introduce her research and wisdom—shaped by a life of practicing acceptance and change—to Korean readers.”
— Translator, Songhee Chae
Who This Book Is For
This book is for:
- DBT therapists currently providing treatment
- institutions and leaders seeking to build team-based treatment systems
- clinicians working with high-risk clients while experiencing burnout.
DBT Teams: Therapy for the Therapist
DBT is not a treatment that can be completed alone.
Sustainable treatment is possible only within a sustainable structure. DBT Teams: Development and Practice invites readers to move beyond a model that depends only on the passion of individual therapists and to return to the essence of DBT: structure, relationship, and team.
This book is not simply about becoming a better therapist. It is about sustaining DBT treatment over time—with stability, consistency, and resilience.
DBT Teams: Development and Practice is now available at major bookstores in Korea
