Telehealth for Dialectical Behavioral Therapy: A Commentary on the Experience of a Rapid Transition to Virtual Delivery of DBT

• DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/jrygd
• Publication Date: 2022-08-18T21:42:50Z
• Authors: Kelly A. Hyland; Julia Blayne McDo...; Christina Verzijl; Daniel Faraci; Patricia F. Calix...; Claire M. Gorey; Edelyn Verona
• Keywords: Telehealth; Leverage (statistics); Dialectical Behavior Therapy; Telepsychiatry

Telehealth has been rapidly adopted to provide continuity of delivery mental health services in light COVID-19. However, the remote implementation intensive treatments like dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) vastly understudied. The aim current commentary is describe potential obstacles, propose solutions, and discuss advantages transitioning from traditional in-person a virtual format for full model DBT. We speak these points at multiple levels relevance clinical scientists practitioners: 1) considerations about format, 2) DBT specifically, 3) person-level (e.g., client, clinician). illustrate using examples obstacles encountered solutions identified during our team’s rapid transition telehealth response COVID-19-related shut-downs extension going forward. are hopeful that COVID-19 serves as call action clinicians adapt leverage technology deliver on broader scale improve patient outcomes.