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Video: DBT Skills: The Value of Validation

A few words can go a long way in helping someone feel understood. Say something as simple as “I hear you” or “That must seem really hard,” and you’re likely to provide more emotional support to that individual than you realize. Tell yourself that you recognize an inner experience, and you can...

Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Your Toolbox for Managing Emotions

Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, is one of the most common treatment options for certain mental health conditions. Originally used to address borderline personality disorder (BPD), now DBT is also used to treat depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bulimia, and substance addiction...

Video: Gunderson BPD Programs: Treatment for Adults With Personality Disorders

The Gunderson programs—Gunderson Residence and Gunderson Outpatient Program—provide exceptional treatment for adults with borderline personality and related disorders. The programs deliver highly specialized mental health care, customized for adults living with borderline personality disorder, who...

Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder in Teens

Being a teenager is difficult. Teens go through many changes, including social and educational changes and hormonal mood swings. Sometimes teens act without thinking if they will get into trouble, with out-of-character actions, thoughts, and feelings all being part of the typical teen experience...

McLean’s 3East Adolescent DBT Program Is Embracing Gender Diversity More Fully

“The numbers are stark,” said Daniel P. Dickstein, MD, FAAP, chief of the Nancy and Richard Simches Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at McLean Hospital. In 2021, suicide was the second highest cause of death for young people 10-24 years of age, Dickstein said, citing data from the Centers...

Everything You Need To Know About Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a complex condition. It affects how a person feels about themselves and others. BPD is characterized by intense, unstable emotions and relationships as well as insecurity and self-doubt. BPD makes everything about a person feel unstable, ranging from moods...

Video: Addressing Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents

Adolescence is often marked by intense emotions, and it’s not unusual for young people to experience mood swings or act impulsively. Typically, these patterns are dismissed as part of growing up, but sometimes they’re actually signs of a complex, frequently misunderstood mental health condition...

In the Media: How the Already Anxious Avoided Global Spike in COVID Anxiety

Dr. David H. Rosmarin reports that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) appear to have been protective against pandemic-related anxiety.

Being in Therapy Prior to COVID-19 Pandemic Prevented Anxiety Uptick During Its Peak

The start of the COVID-19 pandemic led to unprecedented exposure to stressors driven by fears of a novel and deadly disease, intense uncertainty, and resulting isolation measures, which in turn resulted in increases in anxiety for many. According to new research, however, individuals who were in...

Video: The Power of Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is one of the most effective and versatile mental health treatment options available today. Developed to help patients with borderline personality disorder, it is now also used to treat depression, binge eating disorder, bipolar disorder, bulimia, PTSD, and...

Partnership With Rite Aid Healthy Futures Benefits McLean’s Youngest Patients

Three new initiatives within McLean’s child and adolescent division are getting a financial boost from Rite Aid Healthy Futures (RAHF), a public charity dedicated to uplifting communities served by the Rite Aid pharmacy chain. The initiatives supported by the charity are: A group for parents of...

In the Media: Dialectical Behavior Therapy – What Is It and Who Can It Help?

Dr. Blaise Aguirre breaks down how dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) can teach skills needed to help manage intense emotions.

Video: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Approaches for Youth With High Suicide Risk

Michele Berk, PhD, Stanford University, presents as part of the 2023 Suicide-Focused Assessment and Treatment: An Update for Professionals course.

When Eastern Practices Meet Western Psychology

Western culture often views psychological symptoms as problems to be solved. Eastern practices tend to focus on taking a deeper look into a person’s life circumstances. “Most people are too caught up trying to survive from day to day,” explains social worker Charlie Patterson. “We are always trying...

In the Media: Which Kids Face the Highest Risk of Self-Harm?

Drs. Anna Precht and Elizabeth A. Bailey discuss self-harming behavior and how dialectical behavior therapy is used as a treatment option.

Video: Lecture – Treatment for Adolescents and Young Adults in the 3East Partial DBT Program

Presented by Kristen L. Batejan, PhD, and Esther S. Tung, PhD, McLean Hospital – McLean Forum lecture

Video: Application of Dialectical Behavior Therapy to Suicidality in Adolescents

Blaise Aguirre, MD, McLean Hospital, presents as part of the 2022 Suicide-Focused Assessment and Treatment: An Update for Professionals course. Jump To Slides Resources Speaker biography DBT, Adolescents, and Suicide Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) implements aspects of cognitive behavior therapy...

Video: Addressing the Care of Suicidal Adolescents: What Works and What Doesn’t

McLean’s Dr. Blaise Aguirre talks about mental health in adolescents and how health care professionals can best support teens who may be exhibiting suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Hosted by Portland DBT Institute Resources You may also find this information useful: Suicide: Know the Signs and What...

Video: Introducing Mindfulness to Kids & Teens

People of all ages can benefit from mindfulness—and it can be taught to children as early as two or three years old. Mindfulness, simply, is the practice of bringing gentleness and acceptance into whatever is happening in the moment. Kids these days live stressful, fast-paced lives—whether they’re...

Michael R. Hollander Retires After Four Decades of Helping Adolescents and Their Families

When he was still a graduate student in the 1970s, Michael Hollander’s first patient was an adolescent who was in a great deal of emotional pain. “She was suicidal, self-injurious, and probably would have been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder had we been able to do that in those days...

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