The DBT/Parent training group intervention is a novel integration of three evidence-based treatments (i.e. DBT Skills, Parent Management Training (PMT), and Emotion Coaching (EC)). The DBT Skills portion of each session follows the DBT Skills Training Manual Second Edition and DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets Second Edition. DBT Skills portions cover the four modules of traditional DBT Skills: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness.

PMT portions of the intervention cover: praise, positive interactions and parental attention, reward systems, effective commands, use of consequences, and problem solving. EC portions of the intervention cover: psychoeducation on children's emotional development, teaching children to identify and label emotions, validation of children's emotions, handling children's negative emotions, fostering children's positive emotions and parental modeling of emotion regulation and expression.

Difficulties with Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS). A 36-item self report measure used to assess adult emotion dysregulation. Items are rated on a scale of 1 to 5, with higher scores indicating higher levels of dysregulation. The measure is comprised of six subscales: lack of emotional awareness, lack of emotional clarity, limited emotion regulation strategies, difficulties with impulse control, difficulties engaging in goal-directed behavior, and nonacceptance of emotional responses.

Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). A 25-item parent-report measure in which parents rate (on a Likert scale of 0-2) how characteristic of their child are emotional and behavioral strengths and difficulties. The measure yields a total difficulties score as well as subscales for emotional symptoms, conduct problems, hyperactivity, peer problems and prosocial behavior. Internalizing and Externalizing sub scales can also be generated. Higher scores indicate greater difficulties.

Parenting Scale (PS). A 30-item self-report questionnaire, in which parents are asked to describe (on a Likert scale of 1-7) how they respond to a variety of child misbehaviors. The measure yields three subscales: laxness, over-reactivity and hostile parenting. Higher scores indicate more dysfunctional parenting behaviors.