Francheska Perepletchikova, Ph.D.

Helping parents help their kids!

This channel is your ultimate parenting guide, whether you just want to start a family, have a child with emotional/behavioral problems, experience difficulties with an adolescent, struggle with a failure to launch young adult or simply want to learn how to become a SUPERPARENT!

Dr. Perepletchikova offers trainings to parents and therapists (please visit her website for information).

Francheska Perepletchikova, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, UMass Medical School, is a world renowned therapist, researcher, trainer, and the developer of Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Children (DBT-C). She specializes in treating children with severe emotional/behavioral dysregulation, suicidality, non-suicidal self-injury, verbal/physical aggression, treatment-resistant depression, social problems, and anxiety disorders. As a faculty at the Yale University and Weill Cornell Medicine, she developed DBT-C and conducted research to validate her model.