Speaker
Dr. Michele Berk
Assistant Professor Director, Adolescent Dialectical Behavior Therapy Program Director, Adolescent Safety Assessment Program Stanford University, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Biography
Dr. Michele Berk is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. She is an expert on the treatment of suicidal adolescents. She was one of the Principal Investigators of an NIMH-funded, a multi-site, clinical trial of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for adolescents. She has also studied the implementation of DBT with underserved, ethnic minority youth and families and DBT parenting interventions for parents of youth at high suicide risk. She currently testing a DBT intervention to support parents during the high risk transition between inpatient and outpatient treatment, funded by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.