DBT-Based Parenting Intervention for Parents of Youth at Risk for Suicide

The intervention will consist of 8-10 individual parent sessions, to be completed within one week after the teen completes the IOP program. Sessions will be 1 hour in length and will be offered weekly. Therapists may see parents more than once a week if needed, as long as the total number of sessions does not exceed 10. Sessions will follow the standard agenda used for DBT skills training: 1) mindfulness practice, 2) homework review, 3) teaching of a new skill; 4) practice of the new skill; and 5) assignment of new homework (Linehan, 1993). The intervention will utilize the Middle Path module of the DBT Skills Manual for Adolescents (Rathus \& Miller, 2015), which was created by the developers of DBT for adolescents and includes both instructions for therapists and handouts for clients.

No parenting intervention provided beyond standard practices in DBT IOP program.