Adaptation of Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills-Groups for Individuals With Suicidal Ideation and Depression

The intervention will be delivered within an 18-week, once-weekly, one-and-half-hour skill group (8 participants per group) comprised of the same four modules administered in standard DBT skills training groups: (1) mindfulness, (2) interpersonal effectiveness, (3) emotion regulation, and (4) distress tolerance. There will be four sessions for each module totaling 16 sessions. There will be two booster sessions reviewing mindfulness and the concept of dialectics in-between each of the modules (i.e., between modules 2 and 3 and 3 and 4).

Participants will be seen by their standard treaters for 18 weeks as usual.

Participants will receive the intervention after 18 weeks in the treatment as usual group.