Review
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“DBT skills are useful not only for individuals who suffer from
persistent emotion regulation difficulties, but also for
individuals in extreme circumstances and people who have ordinary
problems. This updated manual provides the ‘flexibility within
fidelity’ in teaching these skills that practitioners and
adopters need. New, improved, expanded, and much
clearer skills--they’re all here! Skills trainers and their
clients will benefit from Linehan and her colleagues’ decades of
systematic research and time spent developing, testing, and
refining these skills, empowering practitioners to confidently
offer multiple ways of understanding and practicing new behavior.
Experienced skills trainers will notice the evolved richness and
depth, while the explanations and teaching points will provide
new trainers and students with an excellent foundation for skills
training with both adults and adolescents. Providing a solid
evidence-based foundation for core clinical training curricula,
the manual and accompanying volume of handouts and worksheets
will be essential across the mental disciplines."--André
Ivanoff, PhD, Columbia University School of Social Work
"Linehan's pioneering work has guided many--myself included--to
incorporate mindfulness into compassionate clinical care in a
structured format. The second edition of Linehan's DBT skills
training manual and the companion volume of handouts and
worksheets reflect two additional decades of wisdom and
innovation, further bolstering these indispensable
resources."--Zindel V. Segal, PhD, Distinguished Professor of
Psychology in Mood Disorders, University of Toronto-borough,
Canada
"Skills such as mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness,
emotion regulation, and distress tolerance are invaluable for
those working to overcome complex problems. DBT offers an
especially effective way to learn these skills. I highly
recommend this book of worksheets and handouts and the companion
manual for therapists."--Judith S. Beck, PhD, President, Beck
Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy
“Along with Marsha Linehan’s customary and distinctive
authority, zeal, and wisdom, her new editions offer more detail
and specificity, and new clinical pearls. Even those who are
already familiar with DBT will be impressed by the evidence of
its maturation and expansion, while for those who are wanting to
learn DBT, these books offer the organization, clarity, and
readability that will make learning a pleasure.”--John derson,
MD, Director, Center for the of Borderline Personality
Disorder, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School
"DBT is a proven evidence-based that combines the best
of our science with the knowledge and compassion of Marsha
Linehan--an exceptional researcher and clinician whose innovative
work has advanced the field and shifted many individuals from
lives of suffering to lives of hope. These outstanding second
editions offer guidance on how to implement DBT skills training,
while providing the tools needed to deliver this state-of-the-art
. They will stand as the authoritative guides for
teaching DBT skills, partnering with clients to build lives worth
living, and helping us to address our national and international
priorities of saving millions of lives lost to suicide worldwide.
These 'must-have' books belong on the shelves of every clinician
and will be valuable course texts."--Joan Rosenbaum Asarnow, PhD,
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University
of California, Los Angeles
"Since its introduction to the literature over two decades ago,
Marsha M. Linehan's skills training manual has revolutionized the
of individuals with borderline personality disorder,
and also the practice of psychotherapy in general. Now in a
second edition, the manual and accompanying volume of handouts
and worksheets provides clinicians, educators, students, and
patients with a resource that can guide even novice clinicians to
become more effective and knowledgeable in treating our field’s
most challenging cases. Of interest to the psychoanalytically
informed reader, the second edition has elaborated DBT’s
attention to interpersonal concerns, with robust consideration of
interpersonal dynamics replacing the approach to enhancing
effectiveness presented in the prior edition."--Lois W.
Choi-Kain, MD, MEd, Director, derson Residence of McLean
Hospital; Director, McLean Borderline Personality Disorders
Training Institute; and Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical
School
About the Author
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Marsha M. Linehan, PhD, ABPP, the developer of
dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), is Professor of Psychology
and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Director of the
Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics at the University of
Washington. Her primary research interest is in the development
and evaluation of evidence-based s for populations with
high suicide risk and multiple, severe mental disorders. Dr.
Linehan's contributions to suicide research and clinical
psychology research have been recognized with numerous awards,
including the 2017 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for
Psychology and the 2016 Career/Lifetime Achievement Award from
the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. She is
also a recipient of 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 of Suicidal Behavior. She
is a Zen master and teaches mindfulness and contemplative
practices via workshops and retreats for care providers.