DBT Related Content

Podcast: Introducing Mindfulness to Kids & Teens

Jenn talks to Dr. Gillian Galen about ways to introduce mindfulness to children and adolescents. Gillian provides tips and tricks to make mindfulness practices more second nature to the whole family, and answers questions about how mindfulness can make a positive impact on our kids and ourselves...

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...

Video: Remaining in Control of Our Emotions

Sharing tips we can all use, Dr. Choi-Kain breaks down what she has learned about managing emotions from treating patients with borderline personality disorder. COVID-19 has created heightened emotions for everyone, often bringing feelings of lack of control, helplessness, and isolation to many. To...

Deconstructing Stigma: We Save Each Other

The following story features Mary S. , a 16-year-old student from Massachusetts and participant in our Deconstructing Stigma: A Change in Thought Can Change a Life mental health public awareness campaign. Told through the eyes of its participants, this campaign boldly challenges the misconceptions...

Video: 3East – McLean’s DBT Programs for Teens

The 3East programs provide specialized care for teens and young adults who require treatment for depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and emerging borderline personality disorder (BPD).

Video: The Application of Mindfulness in the Treatment of BPD

Hosted by Blaise Aguirre, MD , McLean Hospital. Mindfulness is a core skill of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and involves increasing self-awareness by learning to focus on one’s experience of the present moment. Dr. Aguirre discusses the application of mindfulness in the treatment of BPD. Part...

BPD and PTSD Treatment Innovator Kicks Off Training Clinics at McLean

Martin Bohus, MD, an internationally recognized leader in the study and treatment of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), recently presented clinical training sessions, a webinar, and a lecture at McLean Hospital. Through the clinical training sessions...

Video: Borderline Personality Disorder and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Hosted by Martin Bohus, MD, Heidelberg University, Germany. Over half of patients with BPD also struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Dr. Bohus, an expert clinician and researcher, discusses this co-occurrence between BPD and PTSD. He elaborates on the evidence-based treatment he has...

Video: How DBT Helps Borderline Personality Disorder and Complex PTSD

Hosted by Nina Lewis-Schroeder, PhD, and Amy Dierberger, PhD , McLean Hospital This webinar focuses on reviewing the overlap in the symptom presentation of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Lewis-Schroeder and Dierberger also discuss the use of...

Video: Mental Health in Boys and Young Men

For years, the general public and many in the psychiatric community have viewed mental illness in boys and mental illness in girls in very different ways. To illustrate, psychologist Alan E. Fruzzetti, PhD , offered a simple test: “If I told you that a student in a classroom was pounding on a desk...

3East: McLean’s Unique Approach to Adolescent Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Every Monday at 9am, 3East leadership holds a unique two-hour session that is part support group, part tutorial. The participants, who join in person or by conference call, are learning the ins and outs of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). Each is a parent of a child who is—or has been—part of the...

Family Network: Working Together to Support One Another

Five years ago, Bill and Andrea Kelley walked into McLean Hospital’s Family Support and Education Group sad and ashamed, feeling as if they were the only parents whose child was addicted to heroin. They discovered they were not alone, and more so, uncovered a support network that they came to rely...