DBT Consultation for Line Staff Working with Residential Youth (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783846507254)

Residential youth often present with complex mental health problems and safety-interfering behaviors. Direct care staff are largely responsible for the everyday care and treatment of these youth. However, while line staff have the most hours of direct contact with residential clients, they often receive the least training and supervision. Not surprisingly, burnout, treatment apathy, and turnover are especially high for line staff. Given the serious challenges posed by residential youth and faced by line staff, we need to know of ways to better prepare line staff for their role. DBT is one treatment model that effectively deals with high levels of emotional/behavioral dysregulation and chronic, unsafe behavior often displayed by residential youth. Consequently, this training and consultation manual utilized the DBT model and aims to improve staff's ability in implementing an effective DBT-informed treatment, while increasing staff support and decreasing staff burnout and treatment apathy.

Author: Jessica L. Long
ISBN-10: 3846507253
ISBN-13: 9783846507254
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Language: English
Published: 09/16/2011
Pages: 220
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d