Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Dear World,

Welcome to my maiden blog at the beginning of my efforts to bring some information about Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). For the uninitiated DBT is an evidence-based psychotherapy for the treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and other disorders of emotion dysregulation.

The coming blogs will concern them selves with providing information about BPD, self-harm, suicidality and other mental health issues. Because of my interest in religion and spirituality, there will also be content featuring the integration of psychotherapy with religion and spirituality. Given my own commitment to the Christian faith, and my work at the Christian Counseling Center of Wichita (Wichita, KS), the focus in this area will come from a Christian perspective. And even more specifically you will find that expressions of faith in mental health will be influenced by my membership and participation in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

This means that I'll be blogging on the relevance of the Christian faith in DBT for Christians seeking psychotherapy, and I'll be blogging about the relevance of Patristic Psychology in mental health treatment of Christians as well as compatible spiritual disciplines that can be integrated into DBT specifically as well as the general spiritual lives of Christians.

For the religious adverse or suspicious, I hope you don't write off this blog pre-maturely. The end goal is discussion and the dissemination of information as food for thought. The end goal is not to trick you into religious belief. Religion and spirituality has commanded much attention from the psychological sciences and practices in recent years with researchers looking at how religion and spirituality may be fortifying of mental health or harmful.

In closing of this preview I'll also be keeping you up-to-date on upcoming publications ad writing efforts to follow-up with my first published work, Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life: How Dialectical Behavior Therapy Can Put You in Control published by New Harbinger Publications, and activities, programs and services at the Christian Counseling Center of Wichita.

Thanks for reading. And now....

Be mindful out there, and stay prayerful.