DBT Skills for Adolescents and Families

Learn from the treatment developers how to effectively teach the adapted Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to a broad range of adolescents and families. Drs. Miller, Rathus & Linehan, have created an interactive and engaging course to help you learn and strengthen the clinical application of DBT Skills to this population. You will gain an understanding of how to orient teens and families to DBT Skills training, along with how to teach the 5 DBT Skills including Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and the teen-family-specific module, Walking the Middle Path.

These master clinicians provide demonstrations and didactics on both the basics and the nuances of engaging and teaching DBT Skills to teens and families in various formats, including multi-family skills groups, individual sessions, family skills sessions, parent sessions, and crisis coaching.

Explore methods to integrate DBT Skills for teens and families into your practice and obtain feedback from the treatment developers by using our interactive online platform.

This course is approved for 12 CE hours. Prior to registering please visit the FAQ to review CE/CME details, course objectives, speaker/planner conflict of interest disclosures and more.