Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder
This hands-on companion presents in session-by-session replicable detail the clinical strategies designed to remediate four specific skills areas arrested in the BPD patient: "mindfulnesss" (balancing emotion and rationality to achieve wisdom), interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance. A vital component in Dr. Linehan's comprehensive treatment program, the manual also features practical pointers on when to use the other treatment strategies described in...
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A vital component in Linehan's comprehensive treatment program, this manual details precisely how to implement DBT behavioral skills training procedures. Included are over three dozen invaluable patient handouts and homework sheets. Clinicians may recommend this book for client purchase or can photocopy patient materials and distribute them as needed.
1Rationale for Psychosocial Skills Training with Borderline Clients12Practical Issues in Psychosocial Skills Training83Session Format and Starting Skills Training184Application of Structural Strategies and Skills Training Procedures to Psychosocial Skills Training275Application of Other Strategies and Procedures to Psychosocial Skills Training386Session-by-Session Outlines for Psychosocial Skills Training597Core Mindfulness Skills638Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills709Emotion Regulation Skills8410Distress Tolerance Skills96References104List of Handouts and Homework Sheets105
\ From the Publisher"Marsha Linehan's tremendously in-depth and informative book and its companion skills-training manual offer a needed guide to the cognitive-behavioral treatment of borderline personality di sorder....Her method has become so widely used by clinicians that the experts in psychosocial treatments consider it one of the best....Marsha Linehan's methods are highly eclectic because they are empirically based; they have been fashioned to fit what works best for borderline patients."--Lester Luborsky, PhD\ "Dr. Linehan's approach is sensible, pragmatic, and effective. Most importantly, it offers the therapist a humane and sensitive perspective on persons with Borderline Personality Disorder. In short, it treats both the therapist and the client in a fashion that produces results."--Mark Ciocca, PhD, Central New Hampshire Community Mental Health Center\ "...user-friendly manual well grounded in principle, detailed in its strategies, and exportable to a wide range of treatment settings."--Charles R. Swenson, MD, New York Hospital, Westchester Division\ \ \
