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Using DBT for Substance Abuse

DBT for substance abuse is considered a highly effective, evidence-based treatment for people with substance use disorders (SUDs) as well as those with poly-substance addictions and/or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. A lynchpin of the Pennsylvania Adult & Teen Challenge (PAATC) addiction treatment is our dialectical behavior therapy program. If you or someone you care about is suffering from an addiction to drugs or alcohol and you would…

Melissa BeitlerMay 29, 2023

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5 Benefits of Behavioral Therapy

Since the first behavioral therapies were developed early in the last century, psychologists have understood that negative, unhealthy, or destructive behaviors can be changed by shifting the thoughts, beliefs, and emotions that underlie human behavior. Behavioral therapy was originally developed for mental health diagnoses, but it has been established as being highly effective for addiction as well. When there are co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, behavioral therapies are…

Melissa BeitlerDecember 5, 2022