This book is designed to teach and assist you in increasing your proficiency in using Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). DBT is a model that was created by Marsha Linehan, Ph.D., at the University of Washington. DBT has been supported in numerous research studies to be effective with high-need, challenging clients such as Borderline Personality Disorders. It is also helpful when treating other personality disorders, significant depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, addictions, and dual diagnosis difficulties. It is effective when treating both youth and adult clients. While it is useful with severe pathology, it is also a strengths-based model that fosters healthy development, increased life satisfaction, and optimal levels of functioning. This book explains DBT in a clear and easily understandable way. By reading this book, you will learn about the classic and innovative DBT skills. You will explore how to appeal to learning styles and tailor interventions to attention span. There are many suggestions about how to make learning the skills fun, interesting, and relevant for a variety of clients. This book focuses on the history, philosophy, dialectics, skills and additional tools, to cement your clinical competency with DBT. In this book you will find many useful ideas, clinical examples, and practice vignettes. Novice and experienced clinicians will enjoy Dr. Moonshine's perspective about DBT and her useful suggestions about how to increase your proficiency with this complicated model. As a clinician, clinical supervisor, and clinical director, Dr. Moonshine has written a book that will increase your resiliency at work as well as provide you with the tools to increase clients' engagement, retention, goal attainment, increased level of functioning and life satisfaction. This book will be a valuable resource for years to come in your clinical practice. In addition to this book, there is a companion text, Volume II: The Worksheets, that contains over 150 client worksheets that can be used right away. In the companion text, you will find streamlined diary cards, chain analysis forms, relapse prevention plans, and recovery plans.

Acquiring Competency and Achieving Proficiency With Dialectical Behavior Therapy: The Clinician's Guidebook

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This is an invaluable resource for anyone using DBT with youth or adult clients during individual sessions, group therapy, family meetings, classroom settings, recreational activities, and milieu environments. These worksheets can be completed in sessions and as homework assignments. There are a plethora of worksheets included in this volume along with a crosswalk of all the D.B.T. in Life skills. The worksheets are designed to assist clients in learning and practicing skills in their lives. The skills are defined in concrete, easy to understand language that is accessible to a wide range of clients. Most worksheets provide information about the skills as well as opportunities for the clients to think through how the skills will assist them in building a life worth living. The worksheets can be used to appeal to all three learning styles. They are also responsive to attention span by focusing the client on the task at hand of learning DBT skills. Clinicians will find this volume full of innovative perspectives and engaging activities. Clinicians are encouraged to use these worksheets in individualized manners to meet the clients' needs and enhance their strengths. There is no particular order or way to use these worksheets. With all of these DBT tools in their clinical toolkit, clinicians can easily customize their DBT practice. Chapter 3 contains general worksheets that orient individuals to DBT along with streamlined versions of diary cards, chain analysis, relapse prevention plans and recovery plans. Chapter 4 has many worksheets that make mindfulness in general and specific skills accessible and relevant for clients of all ages. Chapters 5 &amp; 6 teach clients a variety of strategies for distress tolerance and emotional regulation to foster emotional competency, frustration tolerance and impulse control. Chapter 7 is dedicated to empowering clients to be effective in their interpersonal relationships through boundaries, assertiveness, self-respect and investing in healthy relationships. Using both Volumes I &amp; II will increase your clinical competency along with making DBT fun, interesting and relevant to a variety of individuals, families and groups.

Acquiring Competency and Achieving Proficiency With Dialectical Behavior Therapy: The Worksheets

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Acquiring Competency and Achieving Proficiency With Dialectical Behavior Therapy: The Clinician's Guidebook

Acquiring Competency and Achieving Proficiency With Dialectical Behavior Therapy: The Worksheets