History

The WDBTA traces its origins to 2015, when Marsha Linehan asked the steering committee of the DBT Strategic Planning Meeting, a group of DBT researchers, to develop an international organization to connect those doing DBT around the world. In 2017, the steering committee began this task in earnest, and in 2018 an initial proposal was discussed with a group of key members of the field. This growing group of key participants informed the ultimate development of the organizational structure and bylaws over the next several years. WDBTA formalized as a nonprofit organization in 2022.

WDBTA Structure

WDBTA was organized so that there could be a dialectical balance between continuity of expertise and member-elected regional presentation.