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How is RO-DBT different from DBT?

1st August 2017

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 on the New Harbinger Blog page.

How is RO-DBT different from DBT?

Want to learn more about RO DBT? Watch a FREE WEBINAR 'The Missing Dialectic: How RODBT differs from DBT'