International Society
for the Improvement and Teaching
of Dialectical Behavior Therapy
SAVE THE DATE!
ISIT DBT will be held on Thursday, November 12th, 2026, at the Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor and the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, MD. We are excited to share that the hybrid conference is back! We are thrilled to invite everyone to this conference. Our call for submissions will come out in the coming weeks.
We hope you were able to join us in New Orleans and had a wonderful 30th Annual ISITDBT Conference! As a reminder, you can purchase all available courses, which total 8.5 CEs, for $240. You can also purchase courses individually (1 or 1.25 CEs) for $30 each. To purchase courses individually, please click “courses” at the very top of the website.
Also, if you received a BIPOC or LGBTQIA+ scholarship for the 2025 conference but did not actually use your scholarship, please contact us directly as we would like to honor it for this learning opportunity. You can email us directly at isit@isitdbt.net to obtain a new discount code.
What is ISITDBT?
ISITDBT is the International Society for the Improvement and Teaching of Dialectical Behavior Therapy. It is a volunteer organization with the sole task of organizing an annual conference to bring together DBT clinicians from around the US and around the globe.
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy?
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a system of behavior therapy developed by Marsha M. Linehan, PhD, ABPP, a professor of psychology and a researcher at the University of Washington, to treat people with borderline personality disorder (BPD).
DBT combines standard cognitive-behavioral techniques for emotion regulation with concepts of distress tolerance, acceptance, and mindful awareness largely derived from Zen practice.
Annual Conference
The first ISITDBT conference was held in 1996 and was chaired by Dr. Charles Swenson. The ISITDBT conference aims to provide workshops for clinical development of DBT skills or DBT program development, as well as research panels to disseminate information about the ongoing evidence base that underlies DBT.
The ISITDBT conference is held on the Thursday of the annual conference of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT).