Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder

✍ Scribed by Marsha M. Linehan

• Publisher: The Guilford Press; First Edition, (Lay-Flat Paperback)
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 196
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

 

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.

 

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
1 Rationale for Psychosocial Skills Trainingwith Borderline Clients
2 Practical Issues in Psychosocial Skills Training
3 Session Format and Starting Skills Training
4 Application of Structural Strategiesand Skills Training Procedures to Psychosocial Skills Training
5 Application of Other Strategies and Procedures to Psychosocial Skills Training
6 Session-by-Session Outlines for Psychosocial Skills Training
7 Core Mindfulness Skills
8 Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills
9 Emotion Regulation Skills
10 Distress Tolerance Skills
References
Handouts and Homework Sheets
GENERAL HANDOUTS
MINDFULNESS HANDOUTS
INTERPERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS HANDOUTS
EMOTION REGULATION HANDOUTS
DISTRESS TOLERANCE HANDOUTS