The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Adult ADHD: DBT Exercises to Manage Emotions, Improve Executive Function, and Stay Focused

by Scott E. Spradlin LPC, Mariah Spradlin LSCSW, J. Russell Ramsay PhD, ABPP (Foreword by)

Overview

Powerful dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills to balance intense emotions and improve your life with ADHD. 

If you have attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), you may also struggle with emotion dysregulation—which can actually lead to worsened ADHD symptoms, such as difficulty with interpersonal relationships, staying focused, and executive functioning issues. In order to treat your symptoms, it’s essential to find emotional balance. This empowering workbook will help you take charge of your ADHD, starting at the source.

Written by two experts in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)—who also live with ADHD—this workbook offers evidence-based tools and strategies to help you self-regulate, better manage your emotions, and align your actions with your goals. Using the DBT concept of the “wise mind,” you’ll also learn how to stay grounded in the present moment, increase self-control, and improve your overall well-being.

Discover step-by-step guidance to:

• Manage distressing emotions and situations
• Improve attention and cognitive skills
• Increase interpersonal effectiveness
• Make positive lifestyle changes
• Cultivate resilience and self-compassion

It’s time to replace your distracted mind with your wise mind—so you can reach your full potential and start living with more focus, awareness, and the happiness you deserve.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781648487064
Publisher:	New Harbinger Publications
Publication date:	07/01/2026
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216

About the Author

Scott A. Spradlin, MA, is a licensed professional counselor, and a licensed master addiction counselor (LMAC) in Kansas. He is the author of the workbook Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life (New Harbinger, 2003). He started his career in DBT at the Portland DBT Program in Oregon, now the Portland DBT Institute. In 2000, he completed intensive DBT training with DBT founder Marsha Linehan, PhD, and Linda Dimeff, PhD, in Seattle, WA.

Spradlin cofounded Wichita DBT at NorthStar Therapy in Wichita, KS, with his wife, Mariah, where they provide adherent comprehensive DBT services for adults and DBT for adult ADHD. He also facilitates Resolute DBT for Men and Kairos DBT: Wise Mind Faith, a faith-based program for Christian clients. He has provided DBT-informed services and training in community mental health centers and substance Use Disorder Treatment Centers throughout Kansas.

Mariah Spradlin, LSCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker, and a licensed clinical addictions counselor (LCAC) in Kansas and Missouri, and has been active in practice for seventeen years. She is founder and owner of NorthStar Therapy in Wichita, KS, and cofounder of Wichita DBT with her spouse, Scott Spradlin. She specializes in the treatment of ADHD and has been practicing DBT since 2019. She completed her DBT intensive training with Behavioral Tech. Mariah is a certified ADHD clinical service provider through the Institute of Certified ADHD Professionals, and an ADD Coach Academy (ADDCA) Associate Coach.

Spradlin has supervised and mentored social workers for clinical licensure, and provides workshops on the assessment and treatment of ADHD in children and adults for the Wichita Area Psychological Association. She has presented at the Wichita State University Annual Power Conference, speaking on ADHD awareness and how to effect change with ADHD through coaching. She has also presented to Early Child Start and the Early Child Directors Organization on Children with ADHD, Anxiety, and Sensory Disorders.

Scott Spradlin, MA, specializes in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT.) He is the founding editor of the DBT Bulletin.

J. Russell Ramsay, PhD, ABPP, is a licensed psychologist specializing in the assessment and psychosocial treatment of adult attention deficit/hyperactive disorder (ADHD). Before embarking on his solo virtual practice, he was cofounder and clinical director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Adult ADHD Treatment and Research Program, where he was professor of clinical psychology in psychiatry. Ramsay is widely published, including five books on adult ADHD; lectures internationally and virtually; and is in the Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) Hall of Fame. He is from the Greater Philadelphia, PA, area.