Understanding and Acting to Regulate Suicidal Behavior

The CARES adolescent program consists of a group intervention with 8 biweekly sessions over a total duration of one month, followed by a booster session 3 months post-intervention. These sessions are conducted by nurses and psychologists trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapies (CBT). The content of the group aims to provide adolescents with cognitive and behavioral strategies to improve their emotional distress tolerance and to expand their repertoire of solutions in times of emotional crisis. The CARES adolescent and NVR parent program includes the same adolescent group described above, supplemented by an NVR parent group. This parent group meets once a week for one month (4 sessions), with two additional booster sessions at 1 month and 3 months post-intervention. The content of the parent program is a parent management training composed of strategies for managing their adolescent's emotional crises through emotional regulation techniques based on Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) methods (Omer, 2021).