DBT Made Simple: A Step-by-Step Guide to Dialectical Behavior Therapy Author: Sheri Van Dijk | Language: English | ISBN:
B00AWJAVA8 | Format: EPUB
DBT Made Simple: A Step-by-Step Guide to Dialectical Behavior Therapy Description
Originally developed for the treatment of borderline personality disorder, dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, has rapidly become one of the most popular and most effective treatments for all mental health conditions rooted in out-of-control emotions. However, there are limited resources for psychologists seeking to use DBT skills with individual clients. In the tradition of ACT Made Simple, DBT Made Simple provides clinicians with everything they need to know to start using DBT in the therapy room.
The first part of this book briefly covers the theory and research behind DBT and explains how DBT differs from traditional cognitive behavioral therapy approaches. The second part focuses on strategies professionals can use in individual client sessions, while the third section teaches the four skills modules that form the backbone of DBT: core mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. The book includes handouts, case examples, and example therapist-client dialogue—everything clinicians need to equip their clients with these effective and life-changing skills.
- File Size: 2811 KB
- Print Length: 216 pages
- Publisher: New Harbinger Publications; 1 edition (January 2, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00AWJAVA8
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #196,801 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
I "fell" for Sherri Van Dijk (actually for her work) when I plowed my way through (and reviewed) her Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Bipolar Disorder (2009) a few years ago. I think I wrote then that she seemed to have used Marsha Linehan's system long enough to really wrap her mind around it and be able to boil it down so the rest of us could understand it. I say that because those of us who had to learn from Marsha's own work really had to struggle with all those (then) fresh (and radical) concepts and acronyms she insisted we all use and (try to) teach the patients. Sigh.
Linda Dimeff & Kelly Koerner's Dialectical Behavior Therapy in Clinical Practice (2007) was also helpful, as was Thomas Marra's Dialectical Behavior Therapy in Private Practice (2005), though Marra's book was so heavily weighted to the mindfulness component of DBT (to the relative exclusion of the other four legs below the table top) that it could have passed for something written by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Zindel Segal or Daniel Siegel. More recently, I scoured Lane Pederson's Expanded Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training Manual (2012), which seemed to me to be more faithful to Linehan's precise protocols than Van Dijk's books... perhaps needlessly so, but I'd still recommend it for those who really want to get DBT =down=.
As with her 2009 book, Van Dijk ignores the dense (for some) cognitive-behavioral theories, as well as those hard-to-recall acronyms, in favor of the four main DBT skills groups (mindfulness, distress tolerance, affect regulation and assertion)... though her commentary on the biopsychosocial collection of events that induce neurosis, borderline organization and psychosis on pages 10-13 is one of the most lucid and accessible I've ever encountered.
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