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CURRICULUM VITAE
Name:
Michaela Anne Swales
Work Address: North Wales Adolescent Service School of Psychology
Abergele Hospital Site
Brigantia Building
Llanfair Road
Bangor University
Abergele
UK
Conwy LL22 8DP
UK
Telephone: 44 1745 448700 44 1248 332552
Fax: 44 1248 382599
e-mail:
m.swales@bangor.ac.uk
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS.
University of Wales, Bangor, UK
PhD: Psychological processes of change in adolescents in a residential
setting. (1997)
University of Cambridge, UK (Fitzwilliam College, 1983-1987; 1989-1990)
MPhil: Psychopathology, October 1990.
MPhil: History & Philosophy of Science, October 1987.
BA (Hons): Natural Sciences, Upper 2nd, June 1986.
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS.
British Psychological Society: Diploma of Clinical Psychology (October
1992)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP.
Association of Professionals in Services for Adolescents
Association of Child Psychology & Psychiatry
British Psychological Society & the Division of Clinical Psychology
Health Professions Council
POST-QUALIFICATION TRAINING
Intensive Training in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. Seattle 1994 / 95.
Supervision in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (1997-1999).

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AWARDS
Cindy Sanderson Outstanding Educator Award 2009. Awarded by the International
Society for Improvement and Training in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy.
COMMITTEE WORK
National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence, UK: Member of the Guideline
Development Group, , developing a guideline for the longer term management of
self-harm (October 2009 to present).
World Health Organisation: Member of the Working Group for the Revision of the
Classification of Personality Disorders in ICD-11.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY.
Current Employment (1992 – present): Employed jointly by Betsi Cadwalladr
University Health Board and School of Psychology, Bangor University.
Key Roles:
1. Director of British Isles DBT Training Team (2002 – present)
Main Responsibilities:
Organisation and delivery of a national psychotherapy training programme at
both introductory and intermediate levels
Management of the British Isles DBT Training Team
Liaison with stakeholders in relation to implementation of an innovative
treatment approach
Consultation with policy makers
Management of the income from training (£25K per year)
2. Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Head of Adolescent Psychological Services,
North Wales Adolescent Service (2000 – present)
Main Responsibilities:
Delivery of a clinical psychology service to adolescent in-patients
Supervision of clinical psychologists in training
Management of the clinical psychology & child therapy within the service
Member of the Executive Management Team responsible for strategic and
operational management of the North Wales Adolescent Service
3. Deputy Head of Children’s Psychological Care Service (2000 – present)
Main Responsibilities:
Deputising for Head of Service

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Member of Child Sector Management Team with special responsibility for
clinical audit and service evaluation
Supervision of other senior members of department

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4. Lecturer Practitioner in Clinical Psychology, School of Psychology, Bangor
University (2000 – present)
Main Responsibilities:
Contribution to teaching of MSc Foundations of Clinical Psychology &
Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology
Supervision of research component of the Doctoral course in Clinical
Psychology
Supervision of PhD students
Co-Chair of the School Ethics Committee
Represent the School on the UWB Ethics Committee
Completion of service evaluation projects relating to adolescent mental
health
Previous Roles
2007-2009: Member of the Guideline Development Group for the Treatment of
Borderline Personality Disorder Guideline, coordinated by the
National Institute of Health & Clinical Excellence (NIHCE)
2004- 2006: Chair of the Emotional Health Programme Team, a multi-agency
group with both a strategic and operational brief, responsible to the
Clinical Director of Child & Family Services within Conwy &
Denbighshire NHS Trust.
1997-2002: Trainer in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy in association with the
Behavioral Tech LLC, Seattle
1992-2000: Chartered Clinical Psychologist in the Regional Adolescent Service
(Conwy & Denbighshire Trust) & University Lecturer in the
Psychology of Adolescence (University of Wales, Bangor)
Previous Employment
1990-1992: Trainee in Clinical Psychology (East Anglian Regional Health
Authority)
1987-1989: Research Psychologist, part-time, (Addenbrooke's Hospital,
Cambridge)
1988: Research Psychologist, part-time, (Manpower Services Commission).
1986-1990: Supervisor of undergraduate students at Cambridge University, parttime.

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RESEARCH GRANTS
Williams, J.M.G., Swales, M.A. & Heard, H.L. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for
Parasuicidal Behaviour. Funded by MRC 4.1.97 – 3/1/98. £36, 246. Funded first UK
pilot programme in DBT. Issues explored were the adaptation of the treatment to the
UK and autobiographical memory problems in BPD
Swales, M.A. Deliberate Self-Harm and Suicide in Conwy. Grant awarded by
Conwy Area Child Protection Committee November 2004. £4000
Swales, M. with IBS Ltd. Develop and refine Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
Training in the UK by unifying the customer interface, understanding the product
life-cycle and effectively predicting demand. KTP programme supported by the
ESRC. May 2006- January 2007; November 2007 – January 2010. £100, 566.
PUBLICATIONS.
Books
Swales, M.A. & Heard, H.L. (2009). . Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: Distinctive
Features. London: Routledge.
Book Chapters
Hill, J., Swales, M. & Byatt, M. (2005). Borderline Personality Disorder in
Adolescence. In C. Gillberg, R. Harrington & H-C. Steinhausen (Eds) A Clinician’s
Handbook of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Cambridge: CUP
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, Borderline Personality
Disorder: Treatment and management, Clinical Guideline 78, NICE, London,
January 2009. Swales, M.A: Member of GDG that developed and wrote the
guideline.
Swales, M. & Heard, H.L. (2007). The Therapy Relationship in Dialectical
Behaviour Therapy. In P.Gilbert & R.L. Leahy (Eds) The Therapeutic Relationship
in the Cognitive-Behavioural Psychotherapies. London: Routledge.
Journal Articles
Duncan, J., Johnson, R., Swales, M. Freer, C (1997). Frontal lobe deficits after head
injury: Unity and diversity of function. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 14 (5), 713-741.
Jones, B., Heard, H., Startup, M., Swales, M., Williams, J.M.G., Jones, R.S. (1999)
Autobiographical memory and dissociation in Borderline Personality Disorder.
Psychological Medicine, 29, 1397-1404.
Jones, B., Heard, H., Startup, M., Swales, M., Williams, J.M.G., Jones, R.S (2001).
Autobiographical memory and parasuicide in borderline personality disorder. British
Journal of Clinical Psychology, 40, 113-120

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Kiehn, B. & Swales, M. (1995). The use of a multi-stage confrontation technique in
the context of an adolescent unit. Journal of Adolescence, 18, 317-327.
Kiehn, B. & Swales, M. (1995). An overview of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy in
the treatment of borderline personality disorder. Psychiatry On-Line. World Wide
Web at URL:
http://www.cityscape.co.uk/users/ad88/psych.htm.
Swales, M.S. (2009). Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: Description, Research and
Future Directions. International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy On-
Line. World Wide Web at URL: http://www.ijbct.com.
Swales, M. (2004). Pain and Deliberate Self-Harm. Invited article The Wellcome
Trust. World Wide Web at URL:
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/pain/microsite/culture4.html
Swales, M., Heard, H & Williams, J.M.G. (2000). Linehan's Dialectical Behaviour
Therapy (DBT) for Borderline Personality Disorder: Overview and adaptation in the
UK. Journal of Mental Health, 9 (1), 7-23.
Swales, M. & Johnson, R. (1992). Patients with semantic memory loss: Can they
relearn lost concepts? Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 2 (4), 295-305.
Swales, M. & Kiehn, B. (1995). Evaluating adolescent units: Some considerations
for research and clinical practice. Journal of Mental Health, 4, 227-242.
Swales, M., Williams, J.M.G. & Wood, P. (2001). Specificity of autobiographical
memory and mood disturbance in adolescents. Cognition and Emotion, 15 (3), 321-
331
Williams, J.M.G. & Swales, M.A. (2004). The use of mindfulness-based approaches
for suicidal patients. Archives of Suicide Research, 8, 315-329.

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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS.
Swales, M.A. (1998). Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Borderline Personality
Disorder. National conference ‘Trauma & Mental Health: Working with Survivors of
Childhood Sexual Abuse’. Invited speaker
Swales, M.A. (1999). Implementing DBT with adolescents who deliberately selfharm.
Association of Professionals Working in Services with Adolescents (APSA)
national conference.
Swales, M.A. (1999). Assessment of Risk in Suicidal Adolescents. National GP
Training Day..
Swales, M.A. (2000). Deliberate Self-Harm in Adolescents. Keynote address at a
conference organised by Powys Local Health Group.
Swales, M.A. (2000). Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: Dissemination and evaluation
of evidence-based treatments. Invited keynote speaker at the national Dialectical
Behaviour Therapy Practice Research Network Conference hosted by the
Psychological Therapies Research Centre, University of Leeds.
Swales, M.A., Williams, J.M.G. & Wood, P. (2000). Specificity of autobiographical
memory and mood disturbance in adolescents. Joint Spring Meeting of the Welsh
Paediatric Society & Clinical Child Psychologists in Wales.
Swales, M.A. (2001). Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: Evidence-based practice and
practice-based evidence. Psychological Therapies in the NHS: Realising the National
Service Framework. Brighton
Swales, M.A. (2001). DBT in the UK: Developments and the future. Invited speaker
at a national conference on the implementation of DBT in clinical settings across the
UK.
Swales, M.A. (2001). Autobiographical memory in adolescence: The relationship
with psychopathology. British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive
Psychotherapy (BABCP) Conference.
Swales, M.A. (2002). Parasuicidal behaviour in a non-clinical sample: The role of
autobiographical memory, early childhood events and current attachment style.
Special Interest Group Meeting on Autobiographical Memory and Psychopathology.
Le Lignely, Belgium
Swales, M.A. (2004). Theoretical aspects of autobiographical memory research:
Implications in the development of psychopathology and treatment research. Annual
BPS conference. London
Swales, M.A. (2004). DBT in the treatment of personality disorder: Issues in the
successful implementation of a complex treatment. Annual BPS conference. London

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Swales, M.A. (2004). Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Adolescents. Invited
Keynote Address. 3e Symposium Dialectishe Gedragstherapie, Amersfoort,
Netherlands
Swales, M.A. (2008). The NICE guideline for the treatment of Borderline Personality
Disorder. All Wales Mental Health Managers Network. Newtown, Powys.
September 2008.
Swales, M.A. (2009). Keynote address: Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) for
Adolescents. Faculty for Children & Young People Annual Conference. The British
Psychological Society, London, September, 2009.
Swales, M.A. (2009). Keynote address: Introducing Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
to a CAMHS setting. Second National Conference Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for
Adolescents. Oxford, February, 2009.
Swales, M.A. (2009). Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Teenagers. Royal College
of Psychiatrists ‘ The Roots and Origins of Personality Disorder’. London, January
2009.
Swales, M.A. (2009). Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Teenagers. Royal College
of Psychiatrists ‘Neither hopeless nor helpless: Approaches to complex, hard to reach
young people and families’. London, October, 2009
Swales M.A. & Taylor, B. (2009). Dissemination and Implementation of Dialectical
Behaviour Therapy (DBT). 37 th Annual Conference and Workshops. British
Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies. Exter, July, 2009.
Hibbs, R., Swales M.A. & Taylor, B. (2009). A predictive model for the diffusion of
an evidence-based psychological therapy in the UK Mental Health System. 37 th
Annual Conference and Workshops. British Association for Behavioural and
Cognitive Psychotherapies. Exter, July, 2009.
Swales, M.A., Taylor, B.H. & Hibbs, R.A.B. (2009). Dissemination &
Implementation of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and Evidence-Based
Psychological Therapy. Delivering Better Health Services. Joint Annual Conference:
NHS The National Institute for Health Research Service Delivery and Organisation
(NIHR SDO) & Health Services Research Network (HSRN). Birmingham, June
2009.