2007-2008 DBT Intensive Training Workshop

"The clinician team at the DBT Center of Korea received DBT Intensive Training Workshop
at Behavioral Tech for two years in 2007-2008."

DBT Client

The clinician team at the DBT Center of Korea received DBT Intensive Training Workshop at Behavioral Tech for two years in 2007-2008.

 

The clinician team at the DBT Center of Korea received DBT Intensive Training Workshop at Behavioral Tech, which is a training institution in Seattle, U.S. for two years in 2007-2008.

 

Unlike other psychotherapy, DBT requires a team of DBT therapists in order to provide the psychological services. Having such team increases the therapeutic effects in helping individuals with borderline personality disorder, emotion dys-regulation and suicidal ideation. Additionally, getting advice from each other within the clinican team is an important aspect of Practicing DBT, which helps clinicians to maintain the dialectical balance.

 

Through DBT Intensive Training, the DBT clinician team improved their skills and signed the commitment to treat those individuals in need of support. The workshop increased everyone’s awareness of the complexity and the effectiveness of DBT. At the same time, the workshop taught the clinicians that having a mindful state of mind is essential in helping the clients.

 

The leaders of the training were Dr. Sayrs and Dr. Korslund, who helped Dr. Linehan to protect the DBT community. Dr. Korslund’s demonstrated how to be a DBT charismatic skills training group leader and drew the participants’ attention. Dr. Sayrs allowed the participants to experience what validation feels like by giving gentle attention to every individual. The dialectical balance shown by the two DBT experts was impressive.

 

The clinician team of the DBT Center of Korea was invited to Dr. Marsha Linehan’s house to discuss the effective ways of introducing the DBT system in Korea. After having the two years of the DBT training through EBTCS and Tech, the team had no doubt that the DBT services would give new hopes to many Korean individuals.

2007 - 2008년 DBT Intensive Workshop Part I Part II

2007.6: DBT Intensive Workshop Part I in Seattle
2008.1: DBT Intensive Workshop Part II in Seattle
2008.1: DBT Intensive Workshop Part II in Seattle

2003 The New York Times highlighted the treatment work of Dr. Yong Cho

2003 Dr. Cho Yong-Beom, the psychologist highlighted in New York Times

"Freud meets Buddha: Therapy adapts to immigrants' need"

Dr. Yong Cho opened the Asian-American Family Clinic at the Zucker Hillside Hospital/Long Island Medical Center in New York and launched a specialized treatment program for Korean and Asian immigrants.


Dr. Cho studied Behavioral Therapy for symptoms of depression and anger through research on these immigrants’ cultural adaptation and psychological hurdles, and provided Dialectical Behavioral Therapy based on mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

He emphasized that patients and clients in Asia are in a unfriendly environment to receive therapeutic services due to a shallow understanding of psychosis that is different from what the Western culture understands it, and suggested where professional clinical treatment services should focus on based on his deep sympathy for this population.

His treatment services for people from various cultures were highlighted in the New York Times in 2003 as well as local media.