Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, & Distress Tolerance
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, & Distress Tolerance
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A Clear and Effective Approach to Learning DBT Skills
First developed for treating borderline personality disorder, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) has proven effective as treatment for a range of other mental health problems, especially for those characterized by overwhelming emotions. Research shows that DBT can improve your ability to handle distress without losing control and acting destructively. In order to make use of these techniques, you need to build skills in four key areas–distress tolerance, mindfulness, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
This book, a collaborative effort from three esteemed authors, offers straightforward, step-by-step exercises for learning these concepts and putting them to work for real and lasting change. Start by working on the introductory exercises and, after making progress, move on to the advanced-skills chapters. Whether you are a professional or a general reader, whether you use this book to support work done in therapy or as the basis for self-help, you’ll benefit from this clear and practical guide to better managing your emotions.
The individual struggling with overwhelming emotions and DBT therapists will benefit significantly from this workbook. McKay, Wood and Brantley have expanded and translated DBT Skills, making Linehan’s iconic work on emotional skill building even more accessible and easy to apply to everyday life.
–Kate Northcott, MA, MFT, is a DBT therapist in private practice with Mindfulness Therapy Associates and is director of New Perspectives Center for Counseling, a non-profit counseling center, in San Francisco, CA
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, & Distress Tolerance
This workbook is typical Dialectical Behavioral Therapy paperwork — commanding you to rationalize your way to mental health. Don’t bother talking to people about how you really feel; find a number to describe your discomfort and write out what you’ve done to please your counselor today. Be sure to deny your feelings and half-smile your way through the abuses of contemporary life, and stop thinking as you produce and consume.
The messy, hyperbolic aesthetics of DBT manuals are quite reflective of the incoherent miasma contained within its silence-the-traumatized notions. Making it easy for the heart of a Borderline Personality Disorder-tagged person to be confused by the obtuse theorizing that passes as socialized DBT treatment. (And you WILL be “socialized.”)
People going through psychological hell will find the all-caps demands for you to chill out and be nice to your social workers and therapists to be as rejuvenating as the advice given to a suffering Job by the three “wise fools” at the end of that book. Psychiatrists can feel the elevated notion of moral superiority as they warn you to behave or be given back to the field which brought you Haldol and Electro-Convulsive Therapy.
DBT is a clever but pernicious blend of self-help/self-blame, cognitive confusion passing for counseling, and adult obedience training. The drop out rates have probably been hidden as much as the manifestos have hyped its successful control of the “overly emotional.” Forget trauma therapies or articulate compassion, the “Borderline Personality Disordered” can be made to be “successful patients,” that is, to make their sessions pleasant for their “therapists.” DBT is great for secular monks willing to stop critical thinking or self-acceptance, but otherwise it was created for those who exploit the suffering.
just got this today, and from what i can see, this will be really helpful when working with many types of clients, not just BPD. i’m excited to use it!
This is an easy to understand workbook that is right on target with the issues facing many people who self harm. The book flows well and has handouts that allow clients to explore their underlying thoughts and feelings.
This book is an excellent resource, especially when used as an aid in therapy on a weekly basis.
I found this book helpful to use with clients who are in group or individual therapy.