DBT 2022 Connecting and Expanding

Ofek Institute for DBT Therapy and Study and the Nafarashim Institute for Psychotherapy Research and Teaching, Tel Aviv-Yafo Academic College, are pleased to invite you:

DBT 2022- Connection and Expansion

DBT - 2022 Connecting and Expanding

The first conference of its kind and scope for dialectical behavioral therapy

DBT is an evidence-based therapeutic approach developed in the 1980s by psychologist Prof. Marcia Linehan. The main elements that define this innovative and revolutionary approach are behavioral theory, mindfulness, and dialectical philosophy. The treatment offers holism and synthesis. The main dialectic is the need to create a context of validation and acceptance of the patient as he is while tirelessly trying to bring about change.

The approach began as a treatment for young women suffering from borderline personality disorder and exhibiting suicidal and self-harming behavior. DBT is the treatment recommended by the American APA and the British NICE for treating this population. Over the course of more than 30 years in the United States and twenty years in Israel, the use of the treatment has expanded to patient populations that differ in terms of diagnosis (eating disorders, substance use, depression and anxiety, other personality disorders, complex trauma, etc.), age (adolescents, the elderly, and children), therapeutic setting (day care, open and closed wards, boarding schools, schools, out-of-home placement, etc.), and therapeutic setting (individual, parent guidance, couple, family, group). Is there room and permission for extensive and extra-therapeutic uses of elements from DBT?

This unique conference will feature lectures by two leaders in the field in the US – the president of the DBT umbrella organization founded by Marsha Linehan, Behavioral Tech/Linehan Institute: Prof. Andrea Ivanoff, who will honor us with her presence and also lead a 'master class' for clinicians around a case presentation (pre-conference workshop), and Prof. Jill Rathus, who has written and researched extensively on the adaptation of treatment to suicidal adolescents. Prof. Rathus will deliver an online lecture.

In addition, there will be an opening lecture by Dr. Yifat Cohen, Director of the Ofek Institute, on the dialectic between rigidity and flexibility in the various uses of dialectical behavioral language, and short lectures ('DBTeds') that will present diverse applications and adaptations of the approach. Two researchers will present new research papers on therapeutic strategies in DBT.

On the second day of the conference, after Prof. Ivanoff's lecture, which will present a global overview of DBT, there will be 8 parallel workshops, two of which will be in English and one in Arabic, which will be given by Dr. Basma Kilani, a senior clinician from Jordan. The workshops will present various aspects of therapeutic work using the DBT approach, and more importantly, there will be an opportunity to meet leading therapists who manage units, departments, and institutes in Amman, Soroka Hospital, Ziv Hospital, Shalvata Hospital, Ramat Hen Clinic, Dvir Institute, Modiin Behavioural Institute, Ofek Institute, Or Shalom Organization, and the Social Welfare Department in Netanya.

We are excited and looking forward to a rich and fascinating conference, and hope to see the community of diabetes therapists in Israel in particular, as well as new students and curious professionals in general.

Professional and Steering Committee:

Dr. Sharon Ziv-Beiman, Prof. Andre Ivanoff, Dr. Yifat Cohen, Dr. Helin Sher, Dr. Shani Avin, Ms. Dana Spector