How is RO-DBT different from DBT?
Developed by Marsha Linehan, PhD, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a cognitive behavioral treatment that was originally developed to treat chronically suicidal individuals diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Radically Open-Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO-DBT) builds upon this work. This new therapy is a breakthrough, transdiagnostic approach (developed by Dr. Thomas Lynch) that helps clients with extremely difficult-to-treat overcontrol (OC) disorders such as anorexia nervosa, chronic depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
If you are already familiar with DBT, check out the main differences between Radically Open DBT and traditional DBT below.
“It is the way to turn suffering that cannot be tolerated into pain that can be tolerated” (Linehan 1993).
“We don’t see things as they are—we see things as we are” (Lynch 2017).
Thomas R. Lynch, PhD, is the treatment developer of Radically Open-Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO-DBT)—a new transdiagnostic treatment approach for disorders of emotional overcontrol, informed by 20+ years of clinical research. Dr Lynch is currently Professor Emeritus in the School of Psychology at the University of Southampton, and before that he was the Director of the Duke Cognitive Behavioral Research and Treatment Program at Duke University (USA) from 1998-2007.