About this course

Learning Objectives

• Name 3 ways in which deepening clinicians’ understanding of lived experience can work to reduce clinician burnout.
• Name 3 ways in which radical respect for patients’ lived experience can reduce stigma.
• Identify 3 DBT principles that are rooted in respect for patients’ lived experience.
• Plan for 3 ways they can supercharge their own use of patients’ lived experience to deepen their therapeutic relationships in DBT.
• List 3 ways in which patients’ previous experiences with the mental health system can reduce their willingness to be honest about their lived experience.

Target Audience

Course Instructor(s)

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  Sabrina M. Darrow, Phd

  Associate Professor

  Dr. Sabrina Darrow (she/her/hers) is Associate Clinical Professor and licensed psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Sabrina obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Doctorate degree in the Clinical Psychology program at the University of Nevada, Reno. She completed her internship at the Southern Arizona Veterans Health Care System and postdoctoral studies, including the T32 Clinical Services Research Training Program, at UCSF.

  Sabrina directs the Wavefront program at UCSF. In this role, she leads the evaluation and research embedded in the Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy clinics, implementation of innovative clinical services, and builds collaborations for Wavefront experts to provide training and consultation in evidence-based treatments for youth impacted by mood, anxiety, and OCD-related disorders as well as suicidal and self-harming behaviors.

  Sabrina is passionate about improving the link between research and mental health services with the goal of empowering individuals to reach their personal goals. Her expertise is in clinical behavior analysis and her research focuses on ways to improve clinical services for youth struggling with emotion regulation. Sabrina is also a clinician within the Wavefront Dialectical Behavior Therapy clinic and enjoys supervising psychiatry and psychology trainees in both clinical and research roles

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  Kelsey Packwood

  Kelsey Packwood is a Writer, Director, and Producer from Briarwood, New York. After receiving a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder at 27, Kelsey was inspired to turn her lived experience into advocacy through storytelling. Her half-hour “traumedy” pilot, BORDERLINE, offers an honest and often humorous look behind the stigma surrounding BPD. The pilot has screened internationally and has been utilized as an educational tool by therapists, clinicians, and families seeking to better understand the lived experience of BPD. BORDERLINE will premiere across social media this November. Through her creative work, Kelsey strives to challenge public misconceptions about mental illness and amplify the voices of those often unheard.

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  Esme Shaller, PhD

  Esme A. L. Shaller, PhD, is Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), which she joined in 2007. At UCSF, she helped build the Wavefront Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Clinic, for which she serves as Clinical Director. Both Dr. Shaller and the Wavefront DBT Clinic are certified by the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification. She is a past president of ISITDBT Board and a cofounder of the ISITDBT Anti-Racism Committee.

  Dr. Shaller’s central passions are teaching and dissemination of DBT, particularly for adolescents and families. She devotes a large percentage of her time to teaching and training, both within UCSF’s residency and fellowship programs and across California and the United States. She has worked with other members of the Wavefront team to implement comprehensive DBT for low-income teens in three Bay Area counties. Dr. Shaller received her bachelor’s degree in psychology with highest honors from UC Berkeley and her doctorate in clinical psychology from the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

References

• Adams, C., Nassar, E. L., Nordlund, J., Hu, S., Rice, D. B., Cook, V., ... & Thombs, B. D. (2024). Engagement of people with lived experience in studies published in high-impact psychiatry journals: Meta-research review. Research Involvement and Engagement, 10(1), 115. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-024-00651-6
• Krysinska, K., Ozols, I., Ross, A., Andriessen, K., Banfield, M., McGrath, M., ... & Pirkis, J. (2023). Active involvement of people with lived experience of suicide in suicide research: a Delphi consensus study. BMC psychiatry, 23(1), 496. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-04973-9
• McCabe, E., Amarbayan, M., Rabi, S., Mendoza, J., Naqvi, S. F., Thapa Bajgain, K., ... & Santana, M. (2023). Youth engagement in mental health research: A systematic review. Health Expectations, 26(1), 30-50. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13650
• Smits, D. W., Van Meeteren, K., Klem, M., Alsem, M., & Ketelaar, M. (2020). Designing a tool to support patient and public involvement in research projects: the Involvement Matrix. Research involvement and engagement, 6(1), 30. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-020-00188-4
• Watling, D., Preece, M., Hawgood, J., Bloomfield, S., & Kõlves, K. (2020). Developing an Intervention for Suicide Prevention: A Rapid Review of Lived Experience Involvement. Archives of Suicide Research, 26(2), 465–480. https://doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2020.1833799
• Webb, M., Cooper, C., Hemming, L. Dalton, A., Unity, E., Simmons, MB., Bendall, S., & Robinson, J. (2024). Involving Young People With Lived and Living Experience of Suicide in Suicide Research: A Delphi Study. Crisis 45(4): 263–270. https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000938