DBT Skills Manual for Adolescents

Jill H. Rathus, Alec L. Miller

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781462515486
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Psychotherapy
• Index: Psychology

From leading experts who have trained thousands of professionals in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), this manual provides indispensable tools for treating adolescents with emotional or behavioral problems of any level of severity. Clinicians are guided step by step to teach teens and parents five sets of skills: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Walking the Middle Path (a family-based module developed by the authors specifically for teens), Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness. Designed for optimal clinical utility, the book features session outlines, teaching notes, discussion points, examples, homework assignments, and 85 reproducible handouts, in a large-size format for easy photocopying. Purchasers also get access to a webpage where they can download and print the reproducible materials. See also the authors' Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents (with Marsha M. Linehan), which delves into skills training and other DBT components for those at highest risk.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Also from Jill H. Rathus and Alec L. Miller
• Title Page
• Copyright
• About the Authors
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Part I. Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training: Structure and Strategies
• Part II. Skills Training Modules
• Part III. Skills Training Handouts
• References
• Index