Silver Hill Hospital offers and intensive residential Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) program for patients struggling with intense emotions, impulsivity and harmful behaviors, often including self-harm. DBT is a highly structured form of behavioral therapy that teaches pateints the skills necessary to regulate emotions, avoid self-destructive behaviors and improve interpersonal relationships. It is an intensive program for patients who do not require close inpatient supervision but are not able to manage successfully in an outpatient setting. A new adolescent program is also available.

Our specialized, DBT-trained team consists of psychiatrists, social workers, nurses and counselors. Treatment focuses on DBT skills training groups and coaching that teach patients how to better regulate their emotions and how to replace dysfunctional coping strategies with more adaptive behaviors.

As with our other Transitional Living Programs the entire array of services at Silver Hill are available to patients as needed. However, our focus on the residential setting, under the 24-hour supervision of trained residential counselors, offers the unusual opportunity to practice skills learned during the day throughout the rest of the patients waking hours.