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This booklet is intended for parents of college students and will help you to find more information about mental health care, learn how to take care of yourself while your student is going through a difficult time and find out how other parents have made it through.

The vision of the DBT-RU Youtube channel is to bring the skills used in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to as many people as possible. Here, you can access important tools like mindfulness, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and distress tolerance, directly from DBT experts.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Clinic at Rutgers University (DBT-RU) is a research and training clinic. DBT-RU is directed by Shireen Rizvi, Ph.D, whose graduate school advisor was Dr. Marsha Linehan, the developer of DBT. For more resources, check out the links below.

The Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) was originally developed by Mary Ellen Copeland and a group of mental health service users who wanted to work on their own recovery – this is what they found worked for them and what helped them recover from their mental health difficulties.

The Wellness Recovery Action Plan is a framework with which you can develop an effective approach to manage distressing symptoms and gain insight into patterns of behavior. It is a tool to help you gain more control over your problems.

Developing your own WRAP will take time, it can be done alone,...