num_pages: 180
description:  This book is a step-by-step guide to teaching clients four sets of skills: interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and mindfulness. A vital component in Dr. Linehan’s comprehensive treatment program, the manual details precisely how to implement DBT behavioral skills training procedures. It provides everything the clinician needs to implement the program in skills training groups or with individual clients. Included are lecture notes, discussion questions, exercises, and practical advice on dealing with frequently encountered problems. In a large-size format with lay-flat binding for easy photocopying, the book features over three dozen reproducible client handouts and homework sheets. See also Linehan's comprehensive presentation of DBT, Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. Also available: instructive skills training videos for clients--Crisis Survival Skills: Part One, Crisis Survival Skills: Part Two, From Suffering to Freedom, This One Moment, and Opposite Action.  
language: English
title: Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder
titlecomplete: Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder
genres: Psychology, Counselling, Self Help, Reference, Mental Illness, Health, Social Work, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 3359
publisher: The Guilford Press