Long Term Efficacy of DBT-A in Adolescents With Repetitive Self-harming and Suicidal Behaviours

"16 weeks of Dialectical behavior therapy with one weekly session of individual therapy, one weekly session of multifamily skills training group, telephone coaching and ancillary family therapy and/or pharmacological treatment as needed.~The treatment has been developed by Marsha Linehan (Linehan, 1993a; 1993b)and adapted for adolescents by Alec Miller (Miller, Rathus \& Linehan, 2007). Individual DBT therapists have been trained by drs Alec L Miller and Sarah K Reynolds and have a minimum of one year clinical practise as DBT therapists. The therapists are organised in two consultation teams supervised on a bimonthly basis throughout the entire study by drs Miller and Reynolds respectively."

16 weeks of outpatient treatment in child and adolescent psychiatric clinics in Oslo, on average one weekly session of individual therapy and ancillary supportive. family and/or pharmacological treatment as needed.