Dbt Skills Manual for Adolescents

Brief Description:
"Dialectical behavior therapy has revolutionized cognitive behavioral therapies with constructs such as mindfulness and acceptance now permeating behavioral approaches. Adolescents differ from adult clients with regard to emotional and cognitive developmental level and context: they overwhelmingly attend school, and reside with their families and depend on them for daily functioning, including for getting to therapy. Thus, we considered developmentally relevant as well as family-based targets, cognitive processing and capability differences, distinct liability issues, and interventions with their environments. Our adapted adolescent skills handouts are being used in multiple research settings; many clinical settings around the world employ some version of our materials. The publication of this manual makes them more widely available along with group management strategies and skills teaching notes to assist the DBT skills trainer working with adolescents"--

Marc Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.;Dialectical behavior therapy has revolutionized cognitive behavioral therapies with constructs such as mindfulness and acceptance now permeating behavioral approaches. Adolescents differ from adult clients with regard to emotional and cognitive developmental level and context: they overwhelmingly attend school, and reside with their families and depend on them for daily functioning, including for getting to therapy. Thus, we considered developmentally relevant as well as family-based targets, cognitive processing and capability differences, distinct liability issues, and interventions with their environments. Our adapted adolescent skills handouts are being used in multiple research settings;many clinical settings around the world employ some version of our materials. The publication of this manual makes them more widely available along with group management strategies and skills teaching notes to assist the DBT skills trainer working with adolescents--;Provided by publisher.

Table of 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

Review Quotes:
"There is a wealth of information that defines DBT for adolescents and explains what it addresses. The individual sessions outlined are very helpful. I think any school social worker who read through the (several) activities and handouts would feel enthusiastic about how practical and helpful the skills are....The sessions are laid out in an organized manner with suggestions about where leaders should jump in....The details, handouts, and activities are very valuable."-- "School Social Work Journal" (4/1/2016 12:00:00 AM)

Review Quotes:
"Provides us with a very up-to-date iteration of DBT skills as they have been developed for adolescents and their parents. The book is comprehensive, very inclusive, and carefully detailed....This text could clearly be used in any graduate psychology training program, social work training program, or psychiatric residency where DBT skills are taught and where students can participate in an ongoing DBT treatment program."-- "Child and Family Behavior Therapy" (8/3/2015 12:00:00 AM)

Review Quotes:
"Make no mistake: Rathus and Miller are the experts on adolescent DBT. No clinicians in this rapidly expanding field better know the ins and outs of working with teens. This volume reveals in fine detail how to deliver this treatment to teens and their families in a way that will engage them, reach them, and offer them hope. This skills manual is an essential addition to their body of work, likely to make clinicians' jobs easier while enhancing outcomes, and sure to touch many lives."--from the Foreword by Marsha M. Linehan, PhD, ABPP, Professor and Director Emeritus, Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics, University of Washington; developer of DBT

Jill H. Rathus, PhD, is a former Professor of Psychology at Long Island University Post, where she directed the DBT Clinical Research Lab. She is also cofounder and codirector of Cognitive Behavioral Associates, a treatment and training center in Great Neck, New York. Dr. Rathus is coauthor of books including Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents and DBT Skills Manual for Adolescents, and is a coauthor of the DBT STEPS-A and DBT STEPS-E curricula for secondary and elementary school settings. She consults internationally, has trained thousands of mental health professionals in the United States and worldwide, and is widely published in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Rathus is a recipient of the Cindy Sanderson Outstanding Educator Award from the International Society for the Improvement and Training of DBT and serves as Co-Chair of the Treatment Integrity Committee of the World DBT Association.