Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, & Distress Tolerance (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)by Matthew McKay, Jeffrey C. Wood, Jeffrey Brantley |
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, & Distress Tolerance (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)
- Reading Level: Paperback
- Binding: Paperback
- No. of Pages: 232
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- Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
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- ISBN: 1572245131
- Product Size (W x H x L) inches: 7.95 x 0.63 x 9.84
- Shipping Weight: 1.15
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, & Distress Tolerance (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) Review
Source: Product DescriptionA Clear and Effective Approach to Learning DBT Skills
First developed for treating borderline personality disorder, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) has proven effective as treatment for a range of other mental health problems, especially for those characterized by overwhelming emotions. Research shows that DBT can improve your ability to handle distress without losing control and acting destructively. In order to make use of these techniques, you need to build skills in four key areas--distress tolerance, mindfulness, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
This book, a collaborative effort from three esteemed authors, offers straightforward, step-by-step exercises for learning these concepts and putting them to work for real and lasting change. Start by working on the introductory exercises and, after making progress, move on to the advanced-skills chapters. Whether you are a professional or a general reader, whether you use this book to support work done in therapy or as the basis for self-help, you'll benefit from this clear and practical guide to better managing your emotions.
The individual struggling with overwhelming emotions and DBT therapists will benefit significantly from this workbook. McKay, Wood and Brantley have expanded and translated DBT Skills, making Linehan's iconic work on emotional skill building even more accessible and easy to apply to everyday life.
--Kate Northcott, MA, MFT, is a DBT therapist in private practice with Mindfulness Therapy Associates and is director of New Perspectives Center for Counseling, a non-profit counseling center, in San Francisco, CA
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, & Distress Tolerance (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) Customer Reviews
Number of reviews: 43 Average Rating:A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2010-03-09 and rated it
0 Person found this review helpful, DBT Skills Workbook
The book offers a nice overview and concrete structure to teach DBT skills to clients in a user-friendly way.
A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2010-02-14 and rated it
1 Person found this review helpful, A Very Practical Resource
I am a therapist and I recently started training in Mindfulness and DBT and I have to say that this is a great resource to use as a guideline for clients as well as for personal use. DBT builds on some great therapeutic theories and employs very practical steps for individuals to see change in their lives. This book gives great step-by-step explanations and charts to be used with a client. However, I do not think this is a good book to use on your own. Part of the power of change occurs when you work out problems and issues in the context of relationship and community. Other than that, it's still a great tool. It's also way cheaper here on Amazon.
A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2010-01-14 and rated it
3 People found this review helpful, A Real How-to Guide To Mastering Your Behavior
At first I cringed when I started reading this book, feeling like it would be another self-help questionnaire book that makes me feel good by doing little writing assignments, but doesn't really move me forward. But this book, combined with regular counseling, helped me conquer what I considered was an anger problem within 3 months. Having worked with this book, I can honestly say it is well worth the work, and I feel a much happier person today. It does require that you actually do the exercises honestly and follow up, and I contend that working with a counselor was also a crucial component. But I know of very few books that actually give you hard and fast tools to master your responses and change your own circumstances. It's too easy to say "take deep breaths" or "think of a happy place", and hundreds of advice books sell you that. With this book, I developed a new awareness of my stress, and I was able to re-train my knee-jerk responses to relax, and I respond to life better now, to the greater pleasure of my family.
A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2009-12-29 and rated it
0 Person found this review helpful, Very Practical And Usable
I am enjoying this workbook. The information is very easy to understand. I intend to use it in group therapy with my clients. It breaks down the principles in simple steps that most people can do. And the principles build on each other so the person grows as they do each step. Very well thought out and presented in an orderly fashion.
A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2009-12-07 and rated it
2 People found this review helpful, DBT Saved My Life.
The principles and tactics of dialectical behavior therapy (and the people that taught them to me) saved my life. This workbook is an excellent tool to supplement DBT training but is not a stand-alone treatise on DBT. A helpful source for review and DBT skill mastery. Learning DBT from any book without the group training and one-on-one counseling would be great, but is not realistic. If you need help escaping the grasp of depression, ask for help. The stigma of depression is certainly fading. Anyone that I have ever talked to about my experiences with depression has appreciated my candor and then either shared their own experience and/or talked about someone close to them who has struggled with depression and/or lost their battle with it.
My path to recovery has included acknowledging that I could not recover on my own or just by reading a book, asking for help from friends and family, taking medication, learning DBT, applying DBT, falling off my "DBT horse", getting back in the saddle, engaging with counseling/coaching, keep my skills sharp by reviewing them and trying to master them with this excellent workbook and others like it.
God speed and good luck in your own journey to recovery.
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