Free Webinar
DBT Caregiving Strategies for Teens with Emotional Challenges
This webinar will review skills from Dialectical Behavioral Training, an evidence-based intervention for adolescents with strong and painful negative emotions including depression, anxiety, and anger. The focus will include the use of effective behavioral parenting skills, as well as strategies that improve parent-child relationships, with a particular focus on the use of validation techniques. These techniques have been shown to reduce conflict and promote emotion regulation in adolescents, benefiting both parents and children.
Presenters: Anaid Atasuntseva, Ph.D. and Allison Vreeland, Ph.D.
Parenting Classes
DBT Caregiving Strategies for Teens with Emotional Challenges
Wednesdays 1:00 - 2:00 pm PST via Zoom January 22 - February 26, 2025
For parents of preteens and teens struggling with strong and painful negative emotions including depression, anxiety, and anger. This six-session class is based on principles of Dialectical Behavioral Training, an evidence-based intervention for adolescents. Through didactic presentations and dialogue, participants will learn skills to positively change behaviors and strengthen their parent-child relationship through increased warmth and structure. The class does not provide clinical care and may not be appropriate for parents of youth who are suicidal or self-harming. Rather, parents are instructed on how to implement parenting skills such as:
- How to accurately identify your child’s emotions
- How to take opposing viewpoints during parent-child dilemmas
- How to validate your child
- How to increase positive behaviors and decrease negative behaviors in your child
Best suited for caregivers of youth ages 10-18 years old.
Individual Treatment
Adolescent Dialectical Behavior Therapy
For ages 12-18 (living at home and attending middle or high school)
Adolescents who hurt themselves often experience very strong and painful negative emotions, such as depression, anger, and anxiety. Because these emotions can be so hard to bear, people may engage in suicidal and self-harm behaviors as a way to make the painful feelings stop. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) helps people stop hurting themselves by teaching them safe and positive ways to cope with their negative emotions. DBT with adolescents includes parents in the treatment process.
This program provides:
- Individual therapy
- Multifamily skills group
- Telephone coaching
- Consultation team meeting for therapists
To Make an Appointment: Call Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at (650) 723-5511
Wellness Resources
Mindfulness practices can reduce stress and cultivate wellness for parents and children. The Stanford Mindfulness Program offers classes for parents and teens as well as recorded guided mindfulness meditations through the SPC website and YouTube channel.