The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, and Distress Tolerance

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The book is divided into four sections based on the major DBT modules: distress tolerance, mindfulness, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. Each section is further divided into basic and advanced skills. The other DBT books I've read were Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life by Scott Spradlin and Depressed and Anxious by Thomas Marra. The former is very much aimed at people with BPD, and I couldn't relate to a lot of it. It also goes into a lot of detail on some aspects of DBT, but is sketchy about others. Depressed & Anxious was a very difficult book to understand, and I gave up after one and a half chapters. On the other hand, DBT narrows the focus to psychosocial aspects of daily life. Many people have trouble with their thought and behavior patterns, but these issues are often at their most disruptive in the context of relationships with others. DBT was created to approach treatment from this angle, one that is often incorporated in general CBT but is not typically the main focus (Grohol, 2016). Basic Distress Tolerance Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 I'm a social worker who has struggled to get on board with DBT for a number of years. It was always explained in a way that felt confusing, overly complicated for clients, and that would require memorization of too many acronyms. I've known that DBT is a popular treatment modality and that certain clients respond well to it, but I was about to give up trying to understand it.

This book is intended for individuals rather than therapists, although therapists may find the book to be a useful tool to recommend for their clients. Psych Central. (2016). An overview of Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Psych Central. Retrieved from https://psychcentral.com/lib/an-overview-of-dialectical-behavior-therapy/

emotions. You can expect, if you really do the work to implement these skills, that how you react to

This book has been awarded The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Self-Help Seal of Merit – an award bestowed on outstanding self-help books that are consistent with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) principles and that incorporate scientifically tested strategies for overcoming mental health difficulties. Used alone or in conjunction with therapy, our books offer powerful tools readers can use to jump-start changes in their lives. Author Core strategies include problem solving and validation. Problem solving involves analysis and acceptance of a problem followed by an attempt to generate, evaluate, and implement adaptive solutions. Chain analysis is frequently used to analyze problem behaviors in the context of chains of actions, emotions, physiological responses, and cognitions. Skillful (wise) responses are generated and practiced. Many of these mindfulness skills feed into skills from the other modules; for example, the nonjudgment encouraged in mindfulness is also encouraged in distress tolerance, and the observing and describing skills can be helpful in identifying and labeling emotions.Broken Record. This is basically repeating yourself and not giving someone ammunition. Examples the authors give are, "I just prefer it" or "That's just how I feel." We won’t go into all of them in detail, but these are the main skills and techniques applied in DBT. Interpersonal Effective Skills 1) Objectiveness Effectiveness “DEAR MAN” Skills Accepting reality is an effective antidote for a common problem in our society: struggling against the pain and suffering that is inherent to life as a human. DBT and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) have this in common – both teach that accepting our reality, including the unpleasant aspects of it, is the only way to thrive. Exploring Mindfulness Further . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115

The dialectical behavior therapy skills workbook : practical DBT exercises for learning mindfulness, interpersonalI am a veteran when it comes to therapy and there a few things in this book I was not comfortable with.