DBT for You: Parent Program to DBTeens & DBTwenties
We are now accepting clients who live in Vermont, as well as, Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire.
At DBT for You, we offer a full range of DBT programming and services, including intensive outpatient level treatment for children-young adults, intensive classes for older teens and young adults, and trainings for community members and school professionals. Our clinical team is led by Clinical Director, Erin Cox Slosberg, who trained with the founder of DBT, Marsha Linehan, and program Founder Beth Salvi-Hudgins, who trained with the developer of RO DBT, Thomas Lynch. We aim to offer a wide range of services, all delivered in the spirit of DBT.
The mission of DBT For You is to help New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont develop a shared language between mental health professionals, educators, health care professionals, and clients in order to collaboratively address the current well-documented mental health crisis. Dialectical Behavior Therapy ( DBT), an evidence-based therapy modality that combines cognitive behavior therapy, mindfulness, and direct teaching of skills, is this shared language. It is a principle-driven treatment, with a curriculum that has been modified for use in schools as well as varied mental health settings. It offers social-emotional and executive functioning skills that can be taught across mental health, educational, health care, and home environments.
DBT offers language that can be used to assist all people with emotion regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal communication, awareness, and balanced thinking.
DBT for You ( formerly DBTeens NH) has trained over 30 clinical staff to provide DBT Treatment and Skills Coaching. The staff is mostly part-time, and many work full-time in other educational and mental health settings where they are now able to incorporate the DBT language. We also have trained 20 school-based staff members in two NH districts to use the DBT language, and to assist the students in their districts by teaching them DBT skills.
Is DBT a mental health treatment? Yes. See the New York Times article to gain a better understanding of the efficacy of this treatment: ‘The Best Tool We Have’ for Self-Harming and Suicidal Teens
Does DBT include a curriculum that can be taught in schools? Yes. There is a modified version of standard DBT called DBT Steps A which was created to be taught in schools.
Can most kids and adults benefit in some way from DBT? Yes. We have even seen the impact of DBT skills within our program. Our staff have identified positive changes within themselves and their own relationships that seem to be a result of applying DBT assumptions and skills in their own lives.
DBT has gained popularity and is featured in the TV show She Hulk (Article 1 — Article 2). Lady Gaga has shared that she has participated in DBT treatment for her personal wellness (Article)
For more information about our specific programs, please see:
DBTeens — DBTwenties — Coming Soon: School Programming