NCT07256496

Enhanced Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Adolescents

Enhanced Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Adolescents: Impacts of Individualized Skills Coaching on Constructs of Suicidality

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 47 (actual)
• Sponsor: Compass Behavioral Health · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 13 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Suicide is a leading cause of death and significant concerns for adolescents and young adults. Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Adolescents (DBT-A) is an evidence-based intervention that effectively reduces life-threatening behaviors. Limited research examines the impact of adding individualized skills coaching sessions (ISCS) to the DBT-A model, a novel intervention referred to in this paper as "Enhanced DBT-A". This study evaluates the effectiveness of Enhanced DBT-A in reducing suicidality over 1 year of treatment in an outpatient and intensive outpatient setting.

Conditions

• Suicidality

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Enhanced DBT-A	Participants engaged in Enhanced DBT-A services, including individual therapy, group skills training, phone coaching, and ISCS. Participants completed assessment batteries at intake, 6 months, and 1 year, and the outcome measures assessed participants' severity and intensity of suicidal ideation (SI), reasons for living, and depressive symptoms.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-10-17
• Primary completion: 2022-08-26
• Completion: 2022-08-26
• First posted: 2025-12-01
• Last updated: 2025-12-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States