DBT Outpatient Therapy Program for Adolescents
Locations:
Golden Valley: Volunteers of America-Minnesota Mental Health Clinics, 5905 Golden Valley Road, Golden Valley, MN 55422
Anoka: Volunteers of America-Minnesota Mental Health Clinics, 22426 St. Francis Blvd., Anoka, MN 55303
Days/Hours: Individual therapy hours are scheduled to meet the needs of the participant. Weekly Multi-Family Skills Groups (including the adolescent client and a parent/guardian) are held on Tuesday evenings from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Business office hours for the Mental Health Clinics are 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Fees: Fees for DBT Intensive Outpatient Therapy services are billed to Medical Assistance, managed care companies and other third party payers. The Volunteers of America Mental Health Clinics is enrolled as a provider with most insurance plans.
Participants are: Adolescents ages 15-18 who have severe emotional/behavioral problems and/or emerging personality disorders, who engage in self-harming behaviors.
Contact: Katie Troyak, LICSW, DBT Program Manager
Program Phone: 763-225-4052
Email: ktroyak@voamn.org
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The Volunteers of America Mental Health Clinics’ DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) Intensive Outpatient Therapy Program for Adolescents offers coordinated individual and multi-family group therapy services to youth age 15 to 18 who have severe emotional/behavioral problems, and/or emerging personality disorders and who engage in self-harming behaviors. Our therapy program is designed to be an intensive long-term intervention with an average length of six-months to one-year or longer.
DBT Intensive Outpatient Therapy Program components include weekly DBT Individual Therapy with phone coaching and weekly DBT Multi-Family Skills Group sessions.
The Volunteers of America of Minnesota Mental Health Clinic is a Minnesota Department of Human Services licensed Rule 29 Mental Health Clinic and is accredited by the Council on Accreditation. Additionally, we are a certified provider of Children’s Therapeutic Services and Support (CTSS) in several counties including Anoka, Benton, Hennepin, Ramsey, Wright, Sherburne and Stearns.
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy:
DBT Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an empirically researched psychotherapeutic treatment employing cognitive and behavioral principles. DBT is a form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy specifically designed to treat adolescents with patterns of emotional dysregulation who meet criteria for multiple diagnosis including Major Depression, Anxiety Disorders, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, and also exhibit Axis II traits or have an emerging Borderline Personality Disorder.
DBT Individual Therapy:
The adolescent begins our program with weekly DBT Individual Therapy for orientation, to complete a comprehensive evaluation, and to secure a DBT Personal Agreement Contract that demonstrates commitment to the program. Therapy identifies prioritized and sequenced behavioral targets that are life threatening, therapy interfering and/or quality of life directed which are treated with DBT interventions, use of diary cards, and generalization of learning for situation specific behaviors.
DBT Multi-Family Skills Group:
The adolescent and at least one parent (or guardian) meets weekly for a two-hour, multi-family skills training group, which includes behavioral skills training of the four modules from the Miller, Rathus, Landsman & Linehan Model adapted from Marsha Linehan’s Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder, Guilford Press, 1993. The 24-week skills training includes weekly homework, homework review, generalization of skills to new situations, and is a well-maintained, structured, goal directed learning environment. To participate in this portion of the program, participants must be referred by one of Volunteers of America of Minnesota DBT Therapists to our consultation group for consideration.
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