Enhancing Equity in Adolescent Mental Health: Expanding Access to Comprehensive Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Treatment

• By: Crystal Taylor-Dietz, PsyD Devereux
• April 16th, 2025
• accessibility barriers, adolescents, behavioral health services, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, evidence-based therapy, marginalized communities, mental health, Spring 2025 Issue, suicide, telehealth, therapy, youth suicidality
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Over the last decade, the US has experienced a significant increase in mental health symptomology and suicidality among children and adolescents, with the COVID-19 pandemic contributing to an even greater increase. In 2021, the surgeon general deemed mental health concerns in children and...

Understanding Co-Occurring Disorders

• By: Arlene González-Sánchez NY State Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS)
• January 1st, 2018
• behavioral health integration, co-occurring disorders, evidence-based therapy, integrated treatment, mental health disorders, screening and assessment, substance use disorders, trauma
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For decades, we have talked about substance use and mental health conditions as “co-occurring.” We have incorporated it into our language, for example, saying that a person “needs a co-occurring program.” Sometimes the term takes on a life of its own, prompting providers to view treatment...