In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, we will cover challenges and strategies related to the application of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) with adolescents, young adults, and their parents. We will focus on strategies for orienting parents and families to their role in treatment, getting parent’s commitment to stop trying to change their adolescent’s mind in order to change their behavior, enhancing parent’s willingness to increase acceptance and allow natural consequences, skillful use of limit setting (and punishments), reinforcement, and validation to shape an adolescent’s behavior, and conducting family sessions that lead to reduced dysfunction and improved communication and collaborative problem solving.