“Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It’s about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.” We have a full DBT For Teens and Families Progam in Babylon offering a multi-family group where teens alongside their parents are learning the skills together.
Does your teenager seem to be struggling? For most parents of the teens who end up in Long Island DBT services they have gone to many therapists and nothing seemed to change. Often times the therapist would feel that they couldn’t help the child and the child felt the therapist wasn’t helping them. They were most likely correct in their observations. The therapists at Suffolk DBT really “get” these kids. The therapists have a way of helping them feel accepted and at the same time teach them a new way to manage their lives. By doing this, they begin to learn how to become the best version of themselves.
In Our DBT for Families Program Parents and Teens are attending Therapy Together
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, In 2014, an estimated 2.8 million adolescents aged 12 to 17 in the United States had at least one major depressive episode DBT is a structured program that offers hope to adolescents and their families. It is specifically for teens with emotional difficulty, some of whom have suicidal ideation and self-harm behaviors. Most often they present as depressed, anxious, impulsive, and feeling fairly hopeless.
Adolescence is a time of change and is often a rocky road for children and their families. Dialectical Behavior Therapy is a comprehensive treatment that has been shown to be effective in:
Decreasing frequency and length of hospitalizations
Learning more effective ways of coping with emotions
Increasing skills in creating and maintaining healthy relationships
Decreasing the impact of past trauma that has a current impact on one’s life
Increasing self-acceptance and respect
Developing awareness of urges, thoughts, emotions, and actions
Increasing the ability to accept being an emotionally sensitive child and learning how to manage this
Our DBT For Families Program in Babylon We help:
Families facing conflict
Adolescents who have difficulty regulating their emotions
Adolescents involved in impulsive, self-destructive behavior
Adolescents engaging in self-harm or having suicidal thoughts
Adolescents with ADHD, ADD, High-Functioning Autism, Anxiety and Mood Disorders, Eating Disorders, OCD
Adolescents who have experienced multiple hospitalizations
Parents and adolescents who feel helpless that things may not get better and face tomorrow with frustration, dread, and lack of hope
Our Program at Suffolk DBT Includes
Meeting With your therapist weekly to address the behaviors you are working on and trying to understand patterns that may be happening. We are practicing skills in session, and working on developing a life worth living.
Diary Card: This is a card on which you track the intensity of your emotions and whether you have had urges to act on a target behavior, engaged in any target behaviors, or used DBT skills to help get through the week. This card is filled out once a day and brought to your individual therapy to guide the therapy session.
Phone Coaching: The opportunity to call your therapist in a crisis if you are having difficulty applying skills.
Weekly Multi- Family Skills Group
Meet with other teenagers and their parents who are similar and who want to improve their lives or are having difficulty doing so. Parents learn to communicate in an effective way with their children. Teens learn how to be themselves and develop new ways of coping. Everyone will learn: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and the Middle Path. These skills are life changing and incredibly important in the healing process.
Support for Parents
We offer support for parents in the moment when they need coaching to manage moments where they are unsure about what to do. We help them apply the skills that their children are learning. It You are not alone in this and we want to help you balance the difficult task of holding on and letting go. It truly does take a village! 