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...