The 12 Week Dbt Workbook

Balance your emotions and achieve your goals with DBT Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) helps you shift the thoughts and feelings that cause destructive behaviors and replace them with healthier and more productive habits. This DBT workbook walks you through simple ways to use DBT every day, so you can stay present in the moment, manage challenges with grace, and live without feeling controlled by your emotions. This DBT workbook for adults covers: - The DBT basics-Begin with a full overview of DBT, broken down in clear language that's friendly for beginners. - A 12-week timeline-Follow a manageable schedule that helps you learn new techniques at a pace that's easy to understand and stick to. - The 4 principles of DBT-Spend 3 weeks with each tenet of DBT: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. Develop a stronger sense of self and healthier relationships with The 12-Week DBT Workbook.

Balance your emotions and achieve your goals with DBT Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) helps you shift the thoughts and feelings that cause destructive behaviors and replace them with healthier and more productive habits. This DBT workbook walks you through simple ways to use DBT every day, so you can stay present in the moment, manage challenges with grace, and live without feeling controlled by your emotions. This DBT workbook for adults covers: The DBT basics--Begin with a full overview of DBT, broken down in clear language that's friendly for beginners. A 12-week timeline--Follow a manageable schedule that helps you learn new techniques at a pace that's easy to understand and stick to. The 4 principles of DBT--Spend 3 weeks with each tenet of DBT: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. Develop a stronger sense of self and healthier relationships with The 12-Week DBT Workbook.

Balance your emotions and achieve your goals with DBT Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) helps you shift the thoughts and feelings that cause destructive behaviors and replace them with healthier and more productive habits. This DBT workbook walks you through simple ways to use DBT every day, so you can stay present in the moment, manage challenges with grace, and live without feeling controlled by your emotions. This DBT workbook for adults covers: - The DBT basics-Begin with a full overview of DBT, broken down in clear language that's friendly for beginners. - A 12-week timeline-Follow a manageable schedule that helps you learn new techniques at a pace that's easy to understand and stick to. - The 4 principles of DBT-Spend 3 weeks with each tenet of DBT: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. Develop a stronger sense of self and healthier relationships with The 12-Week DBT Workbook.

Combining a wealth of practical exercises with an actionable blueprint for inspiring personal change, this DBT workbook for adults helps you to overcome anxiety and cultivate a happier, more mindful, and emotionally stable life.

By a distinguished team of authors, this workbook offers readers unprecedented access to the core skills of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), formerly available only through complicated professional books and a small handful of topical workbooks. These straightforward, step-by-step exercises will bring DBT core skills to thousands who need it.

A clear and effective approach to learning evidence-based DBT skills—now in a fully revised and updated second edition. Do you have trouble managing your emotions? First developed by Marsha M. Linehan for treating borderline personality disorder, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) has proven effective as treatment for a range of other mental health problems, and can greatly improve your ability to handle distress without losing control and acting destructively. However, to make use of these techniques, you need to build skills in four key areas: distress tolerance, mindfulness, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook, a collaborative effort from three esteemed authors, offers evidence-based, step-by-step exercises for learning these concepts and putting them to work for real and lasting change. Start by working on the introductory exercises and, after making progress, move on to the advanced-skills chapters. Whether you’re a mental health professional or a general reader, you'll benefit from this clear and practical guide to better managing your emotions. This fully revised and updated second edition also includes new chapters on cognitive rehearsal, distress tolerance, and self-compassion. Once you’ve completed the exercises in this book and are ready to move on to the next level, check out the authors’ new book, The New Happiness Workbook.

Regulate intense emotions, change problematic behaviors, and build fulfilling relationships with this self-directed DBT skills program. Created by psychologist Marsha M. Linehan, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based approach for managing difficult emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. In this practical guide and workbook, you will develop skills in four key areas: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. While traditional DBT programs take 6 to 12 months to complete and require weekly individual therapy, weekly group skills training, and regular phone coaching, Self-Directed DBT Skills distills the DBT skills into a 3-month program that anyone can access and implement on their own. Using this roadmap filled with actionable exercises, you’ll build a strong foundation for emotional well-being and create lasting change. · Beginner-friendly DBT fundamentals that prepare you to move through a 3-month program so you can learn DBT skills without a DBT therapist · 3-month timeline with progressive skill-building to add new skills to your DBT toolbox with weekly chapters that take 15 to 30 minutes to read · Step-by-step exercises by DBT-Linehan-board-certified psychologists who have helped hundreds of clients build meaningful lives through DBT · Downloadable worksheets and bonus materials like a DBT Skills Cheat Sheet to reinforce skills and help you apply them to your daily life

Informed by the principles and practices of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), this book presents skills training guidelines specifically designed for participants with cognitive challenges. Clinicians learn how to teach core emotion regulation and adaptive coping skills in a framework that promotes motivation and mastery for all learners, and that helps clients apply what they have learned in daily life. The book features ideas for scaffolding learning, a sample 12-week group curriculum that can also be used in individual skills training, and numerous practical tools, including 150 reproducible handouts and worksheets. The large-size format facilitates photocopying. Purchasers also get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.