DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets: Second Edition

Featuring more than 225 user-friendly handouts and worksheets, this is an essential resource for clients learning dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) skills, and those who treat them. All of the handouts and worksheets discussed in Marsha M. Linehan's DBT Skills Training Manual, Second Edition, are provided, together with brief introductions to each module written expressly for clients.

Originally developed to treat borderline personality disorder, DBT has been demonstrated effective in treatment of a wide range of psychological and emotional problems. No single skills training program will include all of the handouts and worksheets in this book; clients get quick, easy access to the tools recommended to meet their particular needs.

The 8½“ x 11” format and spiral binding facilitate photocopying. Purchasers also get access to a webpage where they can download and print additional copies of the handouts and worksheets.

This new edition of a bestseller with more than 1,000,000 copies in print is an essential resource for clients in dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) skills training groups or individual therapy.

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Table of Contents

Introduction to This Book

General Skills: Orientation and Analyzing Behavior

General Handouts

• Orientation Handouts
• Handouts for Analyzing Behavior

General Worksheets

• Orientation Worksheet
• Worksheets for Analyzing Behavior

Mindfulness Skills

Mindfulness Handouts

• Handouts for Goals and Definitions
• Handouts for Core Mindfulness Skills
• Handouts for Other Perspectives on Mindfulness Skills

Mindfulness Worksheets

• Worksheets for Core Mindfulness Skills
• Worksheets for Other Perspectives on Mindfulness Skills

Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills

Interpersonal Effectiveness Handouts

• Handouts for Goals and Factors That Interfere
• Handouts for Obtaining Objectives Skillfully
• Handouts for Building Relationships and Ending Destructive Ones
• Handouts for Walking the Middle Path

Interpersonal Effectiveness Worksheets

• Worksheets for Goals and Factors That Interfere
• Worksheets for Obtaining Objectives Skillfully
• Worksheets for Building Relationships and Ending Destructive Ones
• Worksheets for Walking the Middle Path

Emotion Regulation Skills

Emotion Regulation Handouts

• Handouts for Understanding and Naming Emotions
• Handouts for Changing Emotional Responses
• Handouts for Reducing Vulnerability to Emotion Mind
• Handouts for Managing Really Difficult Emotions

Emotion Regulation Worksheets

• Worksheets for Understanding and Naming Emotions
• Worksheets for Changing Emotional Responses
• Worksheets for Reducing Vulnerability to Emotion Mind
• Worksheets for Managing Really Difficult Emotions

Distress Tolerance Skills

Distress Tolerance Handouts

• Handouts for Crisis Survival Skills
• Handouts for Reality Acceptance Skills
• Handouts for Skills When the Crisis Is Addiction

Distress Tolerance Worksheets

• Worksheets for Crisis Survival Skills
• Worksheets for Reality Acceptance Skills
• Worksheets for Skills When the Crisis Is Addiction

"Linehan's pioneering work has guided many—myself included—to incorporate mindfulness into compassionate clinical care in a structured format. The second edition of Linehan's DBT skills training manual and the companion volume of handouts and worksheets reflect two additional decades of wisdom and innovation, further bolstering these indispensable resources."
- Zindel V. Segal, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Psychology in Mood Disorders, University of Toronto-Scarborough, Canada

"DBT is a proven evidence-based treatment that combines the best of our science with the knowledge and compassion of Marsha Linehan—an exceptional researcher and clinician whose innovative work has advanced the field and shifted many individuals from lives of suffering to lives of hope. These outstanding second editions offer guidance on how to implement DBT skills training, while providing the tools needed to deliver this state-of-the-art treatment. They will stand as the authoritative guides for teaching DBT skills, partnering with clients to build lives worth living, and helping us to address our national and international priorities of saving millions of lives lost to suicide worldwide. These 'must-have' books belong on the shelves of every clinician and will be valuable course texts."
- Joan Rosenbaum Asarnow, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles

"Along with Marsha Linehan’s usual and distinctive authority, zeal, and wisdom, her new editions offer more detail, specificity, and new clinical pearls. Together, the two books are a big booster shot for therapy with borderline patients! Even those who are already familiar with DBT will be impressed by the evidence of its maturation and expansion, while for those who are wanting to learn DBT, these books offer the organization, clarity, and readability that will make learning a pleasure."
- John Gunderson, MD, Director, Center for the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School