The dialectical behavior therapy primer : how DBT can inform clinical practice / Beth S. Brodsky, Barbara Stanley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brodsky, Beth S.

Contributor:

Stanley, Barbara, 1949-

Wiley InterScience (Online service).

Samuel Bellet Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Borderline Personality Disorder--therapy.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy--methods.

Dialectical behavior therapy.

Borderline personality disorder--Treatment.

Borderline personality disorder.

Cognitive therapy--Methodology.

Cognitive therapy.

Medical Subjects:

Borderline Personality Disorder--therapy.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy--methods.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) has quickly become a treatment of choice for individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD), suicidal behavior, non-suicidal self injury, and other complicated psychiatric conditions. However, there are very few well-trained DBT practitioners, limited opportunities for training, and a dearth of easily accessible reading material. Becoming proficient in fully adherent DBT requires intensive training and years of experience. Fortunately, many DBT principles and procedures can be readily adapted for therapists conducting supportive, psychodynamic, and even cognitive behavioral treatments. The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Primer fulfills a great demand for an easy-to-read, simplified translation of the complexities of DBT. The authors provide a clear, comprehensive summary of DBT principles and techniques illustrated with rich clinical vignettes. Through addressing the top ten questions clinicians ask about working with individuals who have BPD, the authors encourage a conversion to the "DBT way of thinking" about psychotherapy as well as BPD. Through personal discussion of their experience, they share how they have come to understand the emotional and behavioral world of individuals with severe difficulty with emotion regulation. Their orientation is that, in order to maintain these individuals in treatment, to reduce symptoms, and to increase capacity for positive life experience, therapists need to rethink their assumptions and interpretations and take on more responsibility for treatment failure. The dialectic worldview, when applied to the treatment of BPD, provides therapists with a viable alternative theoretical approach. The authors take pains to illustrate how the dialectic philosophy underlies each DBT intervention and how integral this way of thinking is to the effective practice of DBT. This book is the ideal guide to DBT for clinicians at all levels of experience. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

When DBT is indicated : the patients, the clinicians and the evidence

BPD : treatable or untreatable?

BPD : diagnosis, stigma and phenomenology

Understanding and treating self-harm behaviors in BPD

The ABC's of DBT : theory

The ABC's of DBT : overview of the treatment

Commitment and goal setting

The DBT tool kit : the essential DBT strategies and what happens in the individual session

Skills training : the rationale and structure

Skills training : the four skill modules

Between session contact and observing limits

Management of suicidal behavior

The safety planning intervention

The three C's of consultation

DBT case formulation

Beyond target 1 : therapy and quality of life interfering behaviors

The end of treatment.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Hoboken, N.J. Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on Sept. 10, 2013).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Samuel Bellet Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Brodsky, Beth S. dialectical behavior therapy primer.

ISBN:

9781118556245

1118556240

9781118556603

1118556607

Publisher Number:

99955033922

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.