Thursday, October 13, 2011

Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder by Marsha M. Linehan

Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder

by Marsha M. Linehan


Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder by Marsha M. Linehan

          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.


Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder Overview

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

Every once in a very long while in our field, a clinical innovation is introduced that profoundly improves patient care. Marsha Linehan's development of a cognitive-behavioral approach to borderline personality disorder is such a rare innovation....Her techniques are clear, teachable, and learnable, and make good common sense to the therapist and the patient. Dr. Linehan's methods have greatly improved my treatment of borderline individuals and my teaching of others in how best to understand and treat these patients

Linehan is a brilliant, compassionate, and rigorous therapist for borderline patients. What's more, and what is most unusual for master therapists, she has proven its efficacy in published randomized, controlled trials. What is fortuitous for borderline patients and their therapists is that she has painstakingly crafted a wise book and user-friendly manual well grounded in principle, detailed in its strategies, and exportable to a wide range of treatment settings

Linehan's treatment program is an extremely valuable resource for novice therapists, as well as more experienced clinicians interested in integrating useful and creative strategies in their therapeutic work

Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder Review

          I hope the stigmatism against any kind of mental illness ends soon. Nevertheless, this book is comprehensive and effective. I utilize a DBT group for PTSD symptoms and wish I had found this method of treatment far sooner than I did. Stop judging and worry only about what helps YOU with your symptoms. It is your recovery and you are the one who has to live your life, noone else. This book is fantastic.

Learn More & Check Price
Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder