The first volume to provide strategies proven effective in controlled clinical trials, this book is a comprehensive, integrated approach to therapy with borderline personality disorder. It presents specific guidelines that creatively combine the best elements of behavioral, psychoanalytic, strategic, and other commonly employed modalities. The last component is further elucidated in the companion Skills Training Manual.
An essential component of getting through a crisis is learning to tolerate distress. This program teaches clients seven ways to distract themselves from painful events and offers invaluable tips for comforting themselves in times of stress. 57 minutes. 2003
The skills addressed here help clients protect themselves from impulsive or self-destructive responses to difficult situations. Covered are straightforward techniques for seeing "the light at the end of the tunnel" and staying focused on long term goals. 48 minutes, 2003
This program teaches how to alleviate suffering by accepting the world as it is. Revealed are the three skills that have enabled ordinary people to cope with extraordinary problems, disappointments, and seemingly unconquerable personal trauma.
50 minutes, 2003
Whether it is by doing something nice for a person you are angry at, or approaching something that you fear, this video shows how taking opposite action can modify unwarranted negative emotions and make them feel more manageable.
26 minutes, 2000
This book is a step-by-step guide for teaching clients four sets of skills: mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance. A vital component in Dr. Linehan’s comprehensive treatment program, the manual details precisely how to implement the skills training procedures and includes practical pointers on when to use other treatment strategies described.
Learn how to implement DBT, observe actual skills training sessions, gain an explicit understanding of treatment components
of DBT. In vivid depictions of the variousstages of treatment, viewers find out how to work with patients toward decreasing
negative behavioral skills, self respect, and achievement of individual goals.
This important video addresses what borderline personality disorder is, what causes it, how it can be treated effectively.A straightforward introduction for therapists, this video teaches viewers about borderline personality disorder and Marsha M. Linehan’s clinically proven treatment - Dialectal Behavior Therapy (DBT). Throughout, the video format allows viewers to easily grasp the concepts described, while visual graphics help to reinforce the main points.
