Michaela Swales is Professor of Clinical Psychology on the North Wales Clinical Psychology Programme, University of Bangor, UK. She trained in dialectical behaviour therapy in Seattle in 1994-5 with M. Linehan. She is the Director of the British Isles Training Team, an International Affiliate of the Linehan Institute. She has trained more than a thousand professionals in dialectical behaviour therapy, seeding over 400 programmes. She is the Editor of the Oxford Handbook of DBT. Her primary research interest is the effective implementation of evidence-based psychological therapies in routine clinical practice. She was a member of the ICD-11 Working Group on Personality Disorders.
Personality Disorders and Related Traits
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