Yale Instruction/Investigation/Intervention in Emotional Lability and Dysregulation (YIELD)

In partnership with the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder (NEA-BPD), each year we provide conferences addressing issues related to Borderline Personality Disorder. Co-Directors of the conference include Drs. Seth Axelrod and Suzanne Decker, Marie-Paule de Valdivia, LCSW, and NEA-BPD President, Dr. Perry Hoffman. Please see information about our next conference and video presentations from our past conferences here.

Also in partnership with NEA-BPD, we host a seasonal call-in podcast in which we interview internationally acclaimed experts in Personality Disorders.

See a past call-in here: Kenneth Silk, M.D. interviewed by Seth Axelrod, Ph.D.: How to think about medications in the treatment of BPD, April 12, 2015.

Additional archived call-in episodes on the NEA-BPD website here.

Co-instructed by Drs. Seth Axelrod and Suzanne Decker, and available to Yale and Yale-New Haven Hospital affiliated faculty, clinicians, and trainees each year during July and August. This seminar largely operates as a “flipped classroom” in which participants receive the majority of the course content through reading and media assignments, and then the three-hour weekly sessions emphasis experiential practice and feedback applying the major DBT principles, strategies, and methods.

Developed by Dr. Axelrod this self-study course organizes readings and medial that are freely available on the internet.

Each year we take two full-time psychology interns (fellows) with primary responsibilities in our Adult Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) General and Substance Use Disorder comprehensive DBT tracks. In addition, we take one intern with half-time in the Adult IOP DBT and half-time in our Adolescent IOP. Yale Doctoral Internship in Clinical and Community Psychology

Each year we take approximately four part-time practicum clinicians who are currently enrolled in graduate school or residency programs. Training clinicians may come from psychology, social work, APRN, or psychiatry residency programs. Responsibilities are similar, but reduced from those describing our psychology fellowship.

We are proud to host NEA-BPD Family Connections Weekend Courses at YNHH. This course is primarily designed for loved ones of individual who struggle with severe emotional liability and behavioral dysregulation consistent; however, clinicians and mental health trainees are able to register as participant-observers of the training weekend. Marie-Paule de Valdivia, LCSW, oversees these trainings, which can lead to becoming Family Connections leaders.

For more details on the Family Connection program:

A brief description from our 2011 Yale NEA-BPD Conference (start time 3:45)

A more detailed description on the NEA-BPD website

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training for Suicidal Veterans, Suzanne Decker, PhD.

Investigation of social and experiential learning in Borderline Personality Disorder, Sarah Fineberg, MD, PhD.

Measuring change in social trust in Borderline Personality Disorder, Sarah Fineberg, MD, PhD.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Modified for a Group-Based Intensive Outpatient Program, Seth Axelrod, PhD.

Developing a Dialectical Behavior Therapy Dialectical Dilemma Scale, Seth Axelrod, PhD.

An Observing Personal Limits Protocol for Reducing Clinician Burnout in Work with Borderline Personality Disorder, Seth Axelrod, PhD.

Mechanisms of Disinhibition, Arielle Baskin-Sommers, PhD.

While YIELD does not directly provide clinical services, most of our faculty provide speciality treatments for emotional lability and dysregulation through our respective clinical and training programs, including Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, Connecticut Mental Health Center, and Yale Psychology Department Clinic, as well as in private and group practices that can be located within the DBT Provider Directory. We are not currently recruiting for treatment-related studies outside services already provided in these settings.

We are also proud to provide a developing DBT Provider Directory. Please encourage DBT providers to register their practices there to help expand the directory.