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Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder First Edition, (Lay-Flat Paperback) Edition
Author(s): Marsha M. Linehan (Author)
- Publisher: The Guilford Press
- Publication Date: May 21, 1993
- Edition: First Edition, (Lay-Flat Paperback)
- Language: English
- Print length: 180 pages
- ISBN-10: 0898620341
- ISBN-13: 9780898620344
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“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
About the Author
Dr. Linehan’s contributions to suicide research and clinical psychology research have been recognized with numerous awards, including the Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Application of Psychology from the American Psychological Foundation and the James McKeen Cattell Award from the Association for Psychological Science. In her honor, the American Association of Suicidology created the Marsha Linehan Award for Outstanding Research in the Treatment of Suicidal Behavior.
She is a Zen master and teaches mindfulness and contemplative practices via workshops and retreats for health care providers.
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