ADOLESCENT DBT TREATMENT PROGRAM

Our adolescent DBT treatment program is designed for individuals aged 14 to 18 and their immediate caregivers. The program combines mindfulness, behavioural psychology, and dialectics in a practical manner that gives clients and their families the skills they need to effectively manage their concerns in their individual lives and in the family setting.

Please note we offer DBT as a full program as informed by research. We cannot ethically deliver any deviation of the full program.

Program Components

Assessment and Orientation

  • Comprehensive assessment of

    • Your concerns

    • You and your family’s goals

    • Treatment Plans

  • Full orientation to the program

 

Skills Coaching

  • After hours phone coaching in DBT Skills

  • Community coaching

 

Family Sessions

  • Focus on generalizing DBT Skills in the family setting

Individual Therapy

  • Weekly therapy to decrease:

    • Life threatening behaviours

    • Therapy Interfering behaviours

    • Quality of life interfering behaviours

  • Build a life worth living for you

 

Psychiatry

  • Psychiatric assessment

  • Medication Consultation

 

Parent Coaching

  • Skills coaching for parents

  • Helping the parents to help their youths

Multi-Family Skills Training Group

  • 25 Week Skills Training in:

    • Mindfulness

    • Emotion Regulation

    • Distress Tolerance

    • Interpersonal Effectiveness

    • Walking the Middle Path

 

Case Management

  • Community Consultations

  • Referral to specialized services

 

Therapist Consultations

  • Quality assurance for clients

  • Therapy for the therapists