The Organizers
“Introduction to DBT: Skilful Living” workshop will be held starting Monday Oct. 4th through Wednesday Oct. 7th and will be delivered via Zoom online conferencing platform Daily schedule 13:30 – 19:30 hrs. Amman Jordan time. This workshop is organized by the Maria Den Braven (MDB) center, in collaboration with Behavioural Tech LLC in the United States and British Isles DBT in Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland.
Both organizations aim to train international mental health care providers and ensure that they implement an evidence-based approach in therapy. Through this collaboration, MDB is bringing DBT to the Middle East and shall be offering a wide range of training programs in Dialectical Behavioural Therapy.
Basma Kilani, MA
Founder and Head Specialist of the MDB Centre
- A certified clinical psychologist, with 20 years of experience working in the field.
- Basma is intensively trained in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and is the ambassador of the Linehan Institute/ Behavioral Tech, LLC in Jordan.
- She has consulted at a number of institutions including the Jordan River Foundation (created The Little House Project), Médecins Sans Frontiers and Madrasati Initiative. And for two consecutive years, Basma was part of the consultation committee at the Higher Council for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
- Basma also was a speaker at the International Jordanian Psychiatric Conference in Amman, at the Jordanian Clinical Psychologists Association (JCPA) and at the Murad Centre to bring awareness to DBT and its importance.
- She has been involved in publications in both the Arab Journal of Psychiatry and Tinsley House Publications.