Main description:

*Excellent potential: clinicians have expressed great need for a DBT book on teens.
*DBT is the hottest treatment available for emotional dysregulation, which is at the core of many adolescent problems.
*Complete: includes teaching notes, discussion points, strategies for structuring skills groups, and teen-friendly reproducibles.
*Covering the same core skills as Linehan's bestselling DBT Skills Training Manual, 2e, this book includes an additional module and important age-appropriate modifications.
*Ideal for use in residential, inpatient, outpatient, hospital, or clinical settings.
*From the authors of the successful Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents.

Contents:

Foreword by Marsha M. Linehan, PhD, ABPP
I. Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training Structure and Strategies
1. An Introduction to Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Skills Training
2. Structure of DBT Skills Training
3. Managing Skills Training Group Sessions
4. The Art of Conducting DBT Skills Training: Balancing DBT Strategies and Managing Dialectical Tensions
II. Skills Training Modules
5. Orientation to the Multifamily Skills Training Group
6. Mindfulness Skills
7. Distress Tolerance
8. Walking the Middle Path
9. Emotion Regulation Skills
10. Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills
III. Skills Training Handouts
Orientation Handouts
Mindfulness Handouts
Distress Tolerance Handouts
Walking the Middle Path Handouts
Emotion Regulation Handouts
Interpersonal Effectiveness Handouts