Atlanta DBT Center
Georgia's first comprehensive DBT Clinic is proud to be the the site of field research for the newly published DSM V
Specialty Services:
Programs & Structure
Evidence Based Therapies Available at Atlanta DBT:
DBT
Revolutionizing the therapeutic world, Dialectical Behavior Therapy developed by Marsha Linehan, is geared towards building a life worth living. The foundation is in learning to live in the moment, and being skillful at solving the problems of the moment in order to be most effective. There are 4 stages of therapy in DBT. In the first stage, therapy targets disorders that are borne of "under-control"--that is, chaotic, emotion regulating behaviors that keep a person from having a desired quality of life. The primary, research supported applications are for borderline personality disorder, bipolar disorder, bulimia, personality disorders, and anxiety. Effective DBT programs are required to have skills classes, individual DBT therapy, skills coaching, and team consultation with supervision for the therapists. Without any one of these 'ingredients', a program is not providing true DBT as intended and necessary to bring about the type of lifesaving changes cited in literature.
RO-DBT
Developed by Tom Lynch, Radically Open DBT developed in response to awareness, that while certain patients benefited from DBT "all the way", other patients got better, but weren't able to address all of their issues to satisfactory resolution in DBT. RO developed to help people who didn't need to contain their emotional dysregulation and keep it from disrupting their life; it focused on helping people who weren't able to effectively connect with others to do so. Disorders of 'overcontrol'--where people took socially approved behaviors to an extreme, often lead to anorexia, severe and chronic depression and anxiety, OCD, paranoid and narcissistic personality disorders, and the worsening of trauma and PTSD symptoms. As with DBT, effective RO-DBT programs are required to have skills classes, individual DBT therapy, skills coaching, and team consultation with supervision for the therapists. Without any one of these 'ingredients', a program is not providing true RO-DBT as intended and necessary to bring about the type of lifesaving changes cited in literature.
MBT
Developed by Anthony Bateman & Peter Fonagy, Mentalization Based Treatment is focused on treating many of the same disorders as DBT and RO-DBT. However, here the emphasis is not on skills, but psychodynamically driven therapy, to understand the causes of, and alleviate the suffering. The primary focus is to understand mental states and how they lead to behaviors...it is a therapy that focuses on the concept of "thinking about thinking". MBT is done in individual therapy and group process therapy formats.
Adolescent
Alec
Anorexia
Anxiety
Atlanta
Behavior
Bipolar
Borderline
BPD
Bulimia
CBT
Center
Clinic
Counseling
Couples
DBT
PEACHTREE
Conflict
Depression
Dialectical
Disorder
Dysregulation
Emotion
Emotional
Emotions
Families
Family
Georgia
Linehan
Lynch
Marsha
MBT
Miller
Mindfulness
Open
Pain
Personality
Psychology
Psychotherapy
Radical
Radically
Regulation
RO-DBT
Self-harm
Skills
Suffering
Suicide
Therapy
Validation
CBT
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy--where it all started. CBT started with Albert Ellis, followed by Aaron Beck, and was made popular by David Burns. CBT focuses on defining areas of problematic thinking patterns, dysfunctional emotions, maladaptive behaviors and cognitive processes and contents through a number of goal-oriented, explicit systematic procedures. One of the best known works in this arena for depression is "Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy" by David Burns. This is the model that we are trained in, and follow the complete model for.
