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GXC 2025 Online Virtual Conference - Mental Health Without Borders

Latest Developments Adapting Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Youth in Clinical and School Settings

Alec Miller, Ph.D. 🇺🇸
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Today's youth are faced with many stressors, including the management of technology, that dramatically impact their social, emotional, behavioral, and academic functioning. Dr. Alec Miller and his colleagues' adaptation of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) has become the only well-established evidence-based treatment for adolescents presenting with suicidal behavior along with a variety of emotional and behavioral challenges.


This training will review how DBT therapists teach youth and their caregivers a wide array of skills and strategies to help change and save lives. Dr. Miller will shine an extra spotlight on mindfulness skills and validation skills in this presentation. He will also present two adaptations of DBT used in schools that offer prevention and intervention strategies for both teachers and school mental health providers.

Educational Goal

This session will enhance clinicians’ and school professionals’ ability to apply evidence-based strategies from Dialectical Behavior Therapy with adolescents, fostering greater sophistication in addressing emotional dysregulation, suicidal behaviors, and related challenges. By deepening understanding of mindfulness and validation skills, participants will strengthen their future clinical practice and expand their capacity to support youth in both clinical and school settings

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Describe the impact technology has on today's youth

  • List the modalities of comprehensive DBT with suicidal adolescents in clinical settings

  • Explain the outcome data from research trials evaluating DBT for suicidal adolescents

  • Discuss how effective DBT is for youth in school settings

Presenters

Alec Miller, Ph.D. 🇺🇸
Dr. Alec Miller is a clinical psychologist, trainer, researcher, treatment developer and disseminator of evidence-based interventions to clinical settings, schools and organizations worldwide. He is currently Co-Founder and Co-Director of Cognitive & Behavioral Consultants (CBC) in White Plains and New York City, NY. He is also a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY. Presently, Dr. Miller also serves as the President of the Access Psychology Foundation (APF), a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to overcome mental health disparities among historically under-represented populations by increasing access to evidence-based prevention, treatment, education and training. He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and his doctorate in clinical psychology from the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology of Yeshiva University. He is the co-author of the leading textbooks and treatment manuals of DBT for adolescents in clinical and school settings. He is a DBT-LBC Certified Clinician as well as the Director of a DBT-LBC Certified DBT Program in New York.

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  • GXC Events - The Global Exchange Conference