It seems to me that the fatal flaw in this study was that DBT is designed to work with a specific set of symptoms (or diagnosis) It is not a generic mental hea

It seems to me that the fatal flaw in this study was that DBT is designed to work with a specific set of symptoms (or diagnosis) It is not a generic mental health curriculum. So while assigning kids randomly to these two groups sounds like a good way to see whether a given strategy works--it's not. The authors of the article acknowledge that the kids who did the homework did better. Well that's because the homework is the key to success, to generalizing skills. Guessing on a study that seems this flawed is also dumb, but it would not be unreasonable to hypothesize that the kids who did the homework were the ones who saw the benefit to their specific issues.