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Young adults today aren’t acting out—they’re overwhelmed. Here’s how anxiety, anger, and avoidance protect them from deeper helplessness, and what parents can do to help.
Too many teacher trainings fail to give educators the real tools they need. Our two-day DBT in Schools training flipped the script — focusing on validation as the most powerful prevention strategy for both behavior issues and teacher burnout.
Behind every peer-reviewed paper lies years of uncertainty, persistence, and quiet resilience. This is what we don’t often see in the research process.
Negative self-talk can feel automatic and convincing. Learn how DBT self-validation can retrain your inner voice with compassion, reduce shame, and build resilience.
How DBT and validation can help transform intense emotional states, known as ‘emotional dysregulation,’ into more manageable, stable, adaptive, and healthy emotions long-term.
When someone we love is grieving, our first impulse is to try to make it better—after all, who wants to see someone they love suffer? In this article, we discuss how to help a grieving friend.
The Be There Certificate, by Jack.org and Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation, is a free self-paced course that can be completed in less than 2 hours. Its purpose is to teach you how to support your peers in a real and safe way.
In this article, we discuss why depression isn’t just a “chemical imbalance” and why we should focus on the importance of connection and environment in treating depression.
Recently, Selena Gomez opened up about her mental health challenges and the relief she felt after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Selena advocates for Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), describing how it changed her life.
One of the scariest things for a parent is seeing your child suffer and struggle with feeling worthless, helpless or hopeless. If your teen is depressed, anxious, or even suicidal, know that there are ways to help them.
Young adults today aren’t acting out—they’re overwhelmed. Here’s how anxiety, anger, and avoidance protect them from deeper helplessness, and what parents can do to help.
Too many teacher trainings fail to give educators the real tools they need. Our two-day DBT in Schools training flipped the script — focusing on validation as the most powerful prevention strategy for both behavior issues and teacher burnout.
Behind every peer-reviewed paper lies years of uncertainty, persistence, and quiet resilience. This is what we don’t often see in the research process.
Negative self-talk can feel automatic and convincing. Learn how DBT self-validation can retrain your inner voice with compassion, reduce shame, and build resilience.
How DBT and validation can help transform intense emotional states, known as ‘emotional dysregulation,’ into more manageable, stable, adaptive, and healthy emotions long-term.
When someone we love is grieving, our first impulse is to try to make it better—after all, who wants to see someone they love suffer? In this article, we discuss how to help a grieving friend.
The Be There Certificate, by Jack.org and Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation, is a free self-paced course that can be completed in less than 2 hours. Its purpose is to teach you how to support your peers in a real and safe way.
In this article, we discuss why depression isn’t just a “chemical imbalance” and why we should focus on the importance of connection and environment in treating depression.
Recently, Selena Gomez opened up about her mental health challenges and the relief she felt after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Selena advocates for Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), describing how it changed her life.
One of the scariest things for a parent is seeing your child suffer and struggle with feeling worthless, helpless or hopeless. If your teen is depressed, anxious, or even suicidal, know that there are ways to help them.
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