Full Description
From leading experts who have trained thousands of professionals in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), this manual provides indispensable tools for treating adolescents with emotional or behavioral problems of any level of severity. Clinicians are guided step by step to teach teens and parents five sets of skills: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Walking the Middle Path (a family-based module developed by the authors specifically for teens), Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness. Designed for optimal clinical utility, the book features session outlines, teaching notes, discussion points, examples, homework assignments, and 85 reproducible handouts, in a large-size format for easy photocopying. Purchasers also get access to a webpage where they can download and print the reproducible materials.
See also the authors' Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents (with Marsha M. Linehan), which delves into skills training and other DBT components for those at highest risk.
Contents
Foreword by Marsha M. Linehan, PhD, ABPP
I. Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training Structure and Strategies
1. An Introduction to Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Skills Training
2. Structure of DBT Skills Training
3. Managing Skills Training Group Sessions
4. The Art of Conducting DBT Skills Training: Balancing DBT Strategies and Managing Dialectical Tensions
II. Skills Training Modules
5. Orientation to the Multifamily Skills Training Group
6. Mindfulness Skills
7. Distress Tolerance
8. Walking the Middle Path
9. Emotion Regulation Skills
10. Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills
III. Skills Training Handouts
Orientation Handouts
Mindfulness Handouts
Distress Tolerance Handouts
Walking the Middle Path Handouts
Emotion Regulation Handouts
Interpersonal Effectiveness Handouts
