Cedar R. Koons, MSW, LISW Education and Licenses B.A., English, Duke University, 1971 1998 to present 1994-2004 President and Executive Director, Marie Institute, a nonprofit corporation. Clinical Director, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) program, Women Veterans Comprehensive Health Center, Durham VA Medical Center Supervisor, Dialectical Behavior Therapy elective for third year psychiatry residents at Duke University Medical Center Sexual Trauma Treatment Team, Women Veterans Health Advisory Board 1993-1994 Social Worker and Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center and Behavioral Sciences Inpatient assessment and treatment for an acute general psychiatry unit.
1990-1993 Poet in residence, Cultural Services Program, (CSP), Duke University Medical Center Conducted weekly seminar in the Medical School on literature and medicine, ran groups for inpatients, wrote grants funding literary projects, developed a poetry curriculum for the employee literacy program and edited literary publications published by CSP. Co-founded and ran Rainbow Water Service, a bottled water delivery service. Supervised accounting, sales and customer service staff, managed the initial computerization, employee benefits, and advertising and raised capital for new plant location. Sold the company in 1996. Lectures and Workshops—1996-2005 Intensive Trainings
Co-leader, ten-day intensive DBT trainings for Behavioral Technology Transfer Group in Seattle, Washington, Rochester, New York and Newton, Kansas. Leader, ten-day intensive, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Baltimore, Maryland, Fairfax County, Virginia. Five day intensive training (part 2) for the Department of Mental Health, State of Illinois Two Day and Advanced Workshops
Albuquerque (2), Atlantic Beach, NC, Boston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Greensboro, Greenville, NC, Lancaster, PA, Las Vegas, Milwaukee, North Central Illinois, Phoenix, Raleigh, Rochester, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Syracuse, Taos, and Wichita. International Two Day Trainings Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth, Australia, Montreal, Canada and Yokusuka, Japan. One Day Workshops
Albuquerque, Charlotte, Durham, Minneapolis, St. Louis, San Antonio, Santa Fe, Stockton, Taos, and Winston-Salem. Lectures and Grand Rounds Keynote Speaker, Presbyterian Medical Services statewide meeting, “Dealing with the Difficult Patient.” Albuquerque, New Mexico 2003 Workshop Presenter, “DBT Skills in Rural Mental Health,” National Association for Rural Mental Health Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2002 Discussant, panel on current DBT research, International Society for Improvement and Teaching of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (ISITDBT), New Orleans, 2000. Moderator, panel discussion “DBT Research: Implementation Problems” for International Society for the Improvement and Teaching of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (ISITDBT) New York 1999 Master Clinician Class for NASW-NM annual meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1999, and 2001. Guest Lecturer, Southwestern College, Santa Fe, New Mexico, On treating personality disorders with behavioral treatment, 1999, 2000. Presenter “Efficacy of Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Women Veterans,” panel discussion at Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. 1998 Discussant, Psychiatry Grand Rounds at Duke University Medical Center, Case Conference on “Treating Borderline Personality Disorder.”1998 Presenter, “Cool in the Crucible, Why So Much Interest in DBT?” for Social Work in the 90’s, the Challenge of Change,” sponsored by Duke University Medical Center. 1997 Lectures on “Issues of Sexual Trauma and the Woman Veteran,” for veterans groups, rape crisis centers, domestic violence prevention groups, homeless shelters, interagency councils, family counseling centers, and alcohol and drug treatment centers throughout North Carolina.1994-1998 Four-week seminar “Practice Friendly Research” for the Department of Social Work, Duke University Medical Center. 1993 “Dealing with the Difficult Patient” a lecture for each group of internal medicine interns beginning their rotations at the Durham VA Medical Center.1994 Consultations 1997-2005 Women Veterans Comprehensive Health Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Publications Comtois, K.A., Koons, C.R., Kim, S.A., Manning, S.Y., Bellows, E, and Dimeff, L, (in press.) “Implementing standard DBT in an outpatient setting,” in Dialectical Behavior Therapy in Clinical Practice” Linda Dimeff and Kelly Koerner, ed., Guilford Press. Koons, C.R., (in press) Treatment options for bpd: Dialectical behavior therapy, in Social Work in Mental Health: Special Issue on Borderline Personality Disorder, Perry Hoffman, ed., Haworth Press. Koons, C.R., (2007) The use of mindfulness interventions in cognitive-behavior therapies, in Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Social Workers Arthur Freeman and Tammie Ronen, ed., Springer Publications. 167-186 Koons, C.R., Betts, B.B., Chapman, A.L., O’Rourke, B., Morse, N., and Robins, C.J.,(2006), Dialectical behavior therapy adapted for the vocational rehabilitation of significantly disabled mentally ill adults, Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 13, 146-156. Ben-Porath, D.D. and Koons, C.R., (2006) Telephone coaching in dialectical behavior therapy: A decision-tree model for handling intercession contact with clients, Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 12, 448-460. Robins, C.J. and Koons, C.R., (2004) Dialectical behavior therapy for severe personality disorders, Handbook of Personality Disorders, Jeffrey Magnavita, ed., John Wiley and Sons, Publisher, 221-253. Koons, C.R., Robins, C.J., Lynch T.R., Tweed, J.L., Gonzalez, A.M., Morse, J.Q., Bishop, G.K., Butterfield, M.I., Bastian, L.A.,(2001), Efficacy of dialectical behavior therapy in women veterans with borderline personality disorder, Behavior Therapy, 32, 371-390. Robins, C.J, and Koons, C.R.,(2000), The therapeutic relationship in dialectical behavior therapy, chapter in The Real World Book of Psychotherapy, Alex Sarbo, ed., Harvard University Press, 237-266. McIntyre, L.M., Butterfield, M.I., Nanda, K., Parsey, K., Stechuchak, K.M., McChesney, A.W., Koons, C.R., Bastian, L.A.,(1999), Validation of a trauma questionnaire in veteran women, Journal of General Internal Medicine, 14, 186-189. Butterfield, M.I., Bastian, L.A., McIntyre, L.M., Koons, C.R., Vollmer, M., and Burns, B.J.,(1996) Screening for mental disorder symptoms and a history of sexual trauma and battering among women using primary health care sources, Journal of Clinical Outcomes Measurement, 3, (5) 55-61. Koons, C.R., Butterfield, M.I., Bastian, L.A.,(1995) Personality disorder, recognition and management with behavior therapy or pharmacotherapy, Primary Psychiatry, 3, (7) 46-58.
Memberships National Association for Social Workers Association for the Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies
Awards
Service Award, International Society for the Improvement and Teaching of Dialectical Behavior Therapy, 2000.
Cedar R. Koons, M.S.W., L.I.S.W.
Biographical Sketch Cedar Koons is the co-founder and team lead of Santa Fe DBT Consultation, an outpatient private practice group that provides comprehensive Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and other evidence-based cognitive-behavioral treatment to adults and adolescents in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A trainer for Behavioral Tech, she has conducted DBT trainings, intensives and consultations all over the United States and in Australia and Japan. While in private practice, Ms. Koons has also developed an adaptation of DBT for the vocational rehabilitation of persons with severe personality disorder and conducted a pilot study of the treatment. Prior to entering private practice, she was director of the Dialectical Behavior Therapy program at the Women Veterans Comprehensive Health Center at the Durham VA Medical Center. In that capacity, Ms. Koons conducted a randomized, controlled study of DBT as compared to usual treatment for women veterans with borderline personality disorder and also started at DBT elective for psychiatry residents at Duke University Medical Center. Ms. Koons was the first president of the Marie Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing access to training in treatments of demonstrated efficacy for clinicians treating severely personality disordered persons. She has a special interest in training social workers in evidence-based treatments and has published widely.
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