Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder ANNOTATION
This book contains black-and-white illustrations.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
The two volumes in Dr. Linehan's program cover the full range of borderline conditions. In her far-reaching new text, Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorders, Linehan describes in persuasive clinical detail the development and implementation of DBT.
Because the behavioral skills training element of her program is so critical for working with borderline individuals, the companion Skills Training Manual presents session-by-session guidelines for imparting and integrating into the patient's repertoire four key psychosocial skills notably absent in borderlines. A previous version of this manual has been successfully used in psychiatric hospitals, community health centers, and other settings. Together, the two pieces add up to new promise for respectful, sustained, effective work with this growing patient group.
Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorders:
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 Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorders.
Currently employed in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings, this user-friendly manual provides everything a clinician needs. It includes "lecture notes," discussion questions, exercises, and practical advice on what problems are likely to arise and how best to deal with them. Published in a large 8 1/2" x 11" format, it also features an array of client handouts that may be readily photocopied.