Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training with Adolescents: A Practical Workbook for Therapists, Teens & Parents

by Jean Eich

Overview

A complete skills training manual for DBT with adolescents, focused on practical application for teens, parents and therapists.

Part One covers DBT for teens with comprehensive and age-relevant skills explanations, examples, and applied worksheets. Eich makes the skills real for teens with exercises that get them practicing new behaviors in real-life situations. Includes teaching pages for all four DBT skills training modules.

Part Two is a dedicated focus to parents and skills for DBT parenting, and common teenage developmental issues. This section not only emphasizes that DBT skills can be used for anybody and everybody.

Part Three is crafted for therapists, with practical strategies on how to conduct DBT programming. Also contains suggestions to teach the skills in active and experiential ways along with helpful sample forms, handouts and worksheets.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781937661373
Publisher:	PESI Publishing & Media
Publication date:	01/01/2015
Edition description:	Workbook
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	334,234
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Jean Eich, PsyD, LP, has provided DBT services for nearly a decade at the largest DBT clinic in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, where she has developed, facilitated and coordinated DBT programming for adolescents and their parents. Additionally, Dr. Eich has written curriculum and facilitated programming for adults with mental illness and developmental delays, and has helped to design and maintain studies examining clinical outcomes of DBT programs. She is also an adjunct assistant professor at St. Mary s University, and maintains a private practice in Maplewood, MN.