The program is intended for adolescents whose affective dysregulation leads to self-injurious or self-defeating behaviors. It is aimed at helping patients understand the triggers that lead to such behavior and provide new skills to manage such dysregulation. The program requires a minimum commitment of twenty days, Monday through Friday, 9 am through 1pm. It offers several group therapy encounters daily as well as semi-weekly clinical administrative meetings. Program duration can be extended on a weekly basis if deemed clinically necessary.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy is an empirically validated psychotherapy, which has been shown to be effective in decreasing self-injurious and self-defeating behaviors.

Some people use self-injurious and self-defeating behavior as a way of managing overwhelming feelings. The goal of DBT is to help people learn more skillful means of managing their feelings and to be better able to anticipate what events will trigger these powerful feelings

The Intensive Adult DBT Program is intended for individuals whose affective dysregulation has resulted in self-injurious, maladaptive, or self-defeating behaviors. The program is designed to help adults understand the catalysts and event types which trigger these affective escalations and to then learn new skills for managing and mitigating these dysregulatory ascents before they cycle into disruptions of adult responsibility which compromise, parenting, career, relationships, or safety. The Program requires a minimum commitment of twenty consecutive program days, and meets five days a week between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. The Program offers several focused group encounters daily as well as semi-weekly Clinical Administrative meetings with an individual assigned to be the patient's primary advocate while they are in the Program. Clinical Administrators may be available twenty-four hours a day to help with skills coaching, and the actual real-time implementation of new skills as situations requiring them arise. The Clinical Administrator also serves as the central individual assuring the appropriate arrangement of treatment components, serving on the patient's behalf as the organizing liaison between outside treators, employers, families and other institutions contributing to the treatment constellation.