Dr Alan Fruzzetti is an internationally recognized DBT researcher, teacher, supervisor, and treatment developer. He is a Research Fellow at the National Suicide Research Foundation/ University College Cork, Lead for supervision & implementation for the National DBT Team in Ireland, on the faculty at Harvard Medical School (now part-time), and Professor Emeritus at the University of Nevada-Reno. His research focuses on the connections between severe individual problems (including suicidality and non-suicidal self-harm) and interpersonal/family processes, and their interplay with emotion dysregulation, in both basic and applied research studies.
Alan is Past-President of the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder (NEA-BPD), co-founder of the Center for DBT and Families and on the Board of Directors for the DBT Board of Certification, World Association for DBT. He has authored more than 130 research and clinical papers and book chapters, two books, is the editor of the Guilford DBT Practice series, and has lectured and trained professionals and the public in more than twenty-five countries on Dialectical Behavior Therapy and DBT with parents, couples and families. He has founded and directed both outpatient and residential DBT programs, for adults, adolescents, and their families.
Alan is the co-creator, with Dr. Perry Hoffman, of the NEA-BPD no-cost Family Connections programs for parents, partners, and other loved ones of people with borderline personality disorder, severe emotion dysregulation, suicide attempts and related problems. He has testified before U.S. Congressional committees about problems related to suicide and has received many honors for research, teaching, and community service. He received his AB from Brown University and MS and PhD from the University of Washington in Seattle.