Role

Dr. Carmel supports several CSPAR training projects; he teaches the Annual Comprehensive DBT Training workshop and co-leads the DBT Skills from the Inside Out program with Dr. Comtois.

Background

Before joining the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington, Dr. Carmel served as faculty at Harvard Medical School at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In his role as Director of the DBT outpatient clinic and partial hospitalization program at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Dr. Carmel developed a psychotherapy seminar for psychiatry residents, psychology interns, and social work trainees.

Selected Interventions

Dr. Carmel is the co-author of two books, DBT Next Steps Clinician’s Manual (2025) and DBT Next Steps Skills Handouts (2025), written with Drs. Kate Comtois and Marsha Linehan.

Publications – Selected Works

• Carmel, A., Rose, M.L., Fruzzetti, A.E. (2014). Barriers and solutions to implementing dialectical behavior therapy in a public behavioral health system. Administration and Policy in Mental Health, 41(5)608-614.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-013-0504-6
  
• Comtois, K.A., & Carmel, A. (2016). Borderline personality disorder and high utilization of inpatient psychiatric hospitalization: Concordance between research and clinical diagnosis. Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research. 43(2), 272-280. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11414-014-9416-9
  
• Carmel, A., Logvinenko, E. & Valenti, E.S. (2019). Evaluation of a dialectical behavior therapy psychiatry training program. Academic Psychiatry. 43(1):37-40. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-018-0993-4
  

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