Books Details
Author : Jill H. Rathus Pages : 392 pages Publisher : The Guilford Press Language :
ISBN-10 : 1462515355 ISBN-13 : 9781462515356
Books Descriptions
From leading experts who have trained thousands of professionals in dialectical
behavior therapy (DBT), this manual provides indispensable tools for treating
adolescents with emotional or behavioral problems of any level of severity. Clinicians
are guided step by step to teach teens and parents five sets of skills: Mindfulness,
Distress Tolerance, Walking the Middle Path (a family-based module developed by
the authors specifically for teens), Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal
Effectiveness. Designed for optimal clinical utility, the book features session outlines,
teaching notes, discussion points, examples, homework assignments, and 85
reproducible handouts, in a large-size format for easy photocopying. Purchasers also
get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible
materials. See also the authors' ?Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal
Adolescents (with Marsha M. Linehan), which delves into skills training and other DBT
components for those at
