DBT Experiential Class for Professionals in Korea

Dr. Linehan suggested Dr. Cho starting an experiential class for professionals to provide them with firsthand experience of DBT skills.
DBT Korea launched a class for professionals during the same year.

In 2008, Dr. Yong Cho invited Dr. Linehan for the first DBT workshop in Seoul, Korea.

After the workshop, Dr. Linehan suggested Dr. Cho starting an experiential class for professionals to provide them with firsthand experience of DBT skills. DBT Korea launched a class for professionals during the same year.

Starting in the year 2022, a quarterly program for professionals has been launched for professionals. The Experiential Class for Professionals covers all four modules of DBT over the course of one year.

Structure of DBT Experiential Class

Spring Term

Week 1 – Week 2: DBT Class Orientation /  DBT Mindfulness Skills
Week 3 – Week 10: DBT Interpersonal Effectiveness Skill Module

Summer Term

Week 1 – Week 2: DBT Class Orientation /  DBT Mindfulness Skills
Week 3 – Week 10: DBT Emotion Regulation Skill Module

Fall Term

Week 1 – Week 2: DBT Class Orientation /  DBT Mindfulness Skills

Week 3 – Week 10: DBT Distress Tolerance Skill Module

Winter Term

Week1 – Week 2: DBT Class Orientation /  DBT Mindfulness Skills

Week 3 – Week 10: DBT Addiction Crisis Module

Eligibility of Participation

Professionals in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, social work, nursing or other mental health fields who completed the graduate level of coursework of psychopathology and required supervised clinical training
Professionals who are willing to follow the footsteps of Dr. Marsha Linehan to be a DBT clinician (*see the following preface printed on her DBT Skills Training Manual)

DBT & Dr. Yong Cho

Dr. Cho is the CEO of the Tree Group. He is a licensed clinical psychologist in the State of New York. He graduated from the University of Utah and received his doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology at the New School for Social Research in New York.

Dr. Cho started his clinical training at the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York and in 1998, he continued his training at the Zucker Hillside Hospital / Long Island Jewish Medical Center.

In 2002, he introduced DBT to Korean-speaking immigrants for the first time and opened the Asian American Family Clinic at the hospital.

His work of culture/language sensitive psychotherapy was featured in the media, such as the New York Times, for providing psychological services to multicultural communities.

He established the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Center of Korea with the help of Dr. Marsha Linehan and the team of Evidence Based Therapy Center of Seattle. DBT Center of Korea invited Dr. Linehan in the following year for DBT workshop for Korean professionals.

Dr. Cho translated and published the second edition of Dr. Linehan’s DBT manuals in 2018 and also DBT skills manual for adolescents of Dr. Ratus and Dr. Miller.

– Licensed Clinical Psychologist in New York (#015603)

– Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at New School for Social Research, New York

– M.A. in Psychology at New School for Social Research, New York

– B.S. in Psychology at University of Utah

Clinical Training & Former Positions

– Adjunct Professor at Ewha Women’s University

– President of the Open Clinic for Human Rights Victims

– Clinical Psychologist at the Zucker Hillside Hospital / North Shore Long Island Health System, New York

– Clinical Psychology Doctoral Internship at the Zucker Hillside Hospital / North Shore Long Island Health System, New York

– Clinical Psychology Externship at the Zucker Hillside Hospital / North Shore Long Island Health System, New York

– Clinical Psychology Externship at Beth Israel Medical Center, New York

History of DBT Center of Korea

2001-2003

Dr. Yong Cho initiated DBT individual sessions and skill training groups at the Zucker-Hillside Hospital for Korean immigrants in New York.

2003-2007

‘DBT Skill Training Manual for Borderline Personality Disorder’ by Dr. Linehan was translated into Korean and published
Starting Korean/English DBT Treatment

2007-2009

‘DBT Center of Korea’ was founded within the umbrella of the Tree Group and became the first collaborated organization in Asia with the DBT Center of Seattl approved by Dr. Marsha Linehan, the founder of DBT
The team of ‘DBT Center of Korea’ completed DBT Intensive Workshop in Seattle

2008

Dr. Marsha Linehan, the founder of DBT and a renowned psychologist for treating Borderline Personality Disorder, was invited to hold a DBT workshop in Korea on treating Borderline Personality Disorder

2008-2012

Provide DBT Standard program for Korean and English speaking clients in Asia

2012-2019 Translation Project

Translated and published the following DBT manuals
- DBT Skills Training Manual, Second Edition
- DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets, Second Edition
- DBT Skills Manual for Adolescents

Marsha M Linehan, Ph.D.

2008 DBT Workshop in Seoul

“When I teach my graduate students—who work with complex, difficult-to-treat individuals at high risk for suicide—I always remind them that they can choose whether to look out for themselves or to look out for their clients, but they cannot always do both. If they want to look out for themselves at a possible cost to their clients, I remind them that they are in the wrong profession.

I dedicate this book to all those who have found the courage to carry on this work at a possible cost to themselves.…..”

Marsha M. Linehan

From Contribution Preface of DBT Skills Training Manual, Second Edition