DBT Skills Manual for Adolescents

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. Cliniciansare 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 InterpersonalEffectiveness. 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. Purchasersalso get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.

Foreword by Marsha M. Linehan, PhD, ABPP

Contents

I Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training Structure and Strategies

AnIntroduction to DialecticalBehaviorTherapy and Skills Training

Structure of DBT Skills Training

ManagingSkills Training GroupSessions

The Art of Conducting DBT Skills Training: Balancing DBT Strategies and ManagingDialecticalTensions

II Skills Training Modules

Orientation to theMultifamilySkills Training Group

MindfulnessSkills

DistressTolerance

WalkingtheMiddlePath

EmotionRegulationSkills

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