Michaela A. Swales

Michaela A. Swales, PhD, is Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Professor in Clinical Psychology on the North Wales Clinical Psychology Programme, Bangor University. She trained in DBT with Marsha Linehan and for 20 years ran a clinical program for suicidal young people in an inpatient service. Dr. Swales is Director of the British Isles DBT Training Team, an international affiliate of the Linehan Institute. She has trained more than a thousand professionals in DBT, seeding over 400 programs globally. She coauthored Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: Distinctive Features (with Heidi L. Heard) and is editor of the Oxford Handbook of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. Her primary research interest is the effective implementation of evidence-based psychological therapies in routine clinical practice. Dr. Swales was a member of the Working Group on Classification of Personality Disorders reporting to the World Health Organization's International Advisory Group for the Revision of the ICD-10 Mental and Behavioural Disorders.