xxii, 422 pages : 27 cm "Featuring more than 225 user-friendly handouts and worksheets, this is an essential resource for clients in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills training groups or individual therapy. 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. Clients get quick, easy access to all needed handouts or worksheets as they work to build mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance skills. The large-size format and spiral binding facilitate photocopying. Purchasers also get access to a Web page where they can download and print additional copies of the worksheets. Mental health professionals, see also the author's DBT Skills Training Manual, Second Edition, which provides complete instructions for teaching the skills. Also available: Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder, the authoritative presentation of DBT, and instructive videos for clients--Crisis Survival Skills: Part One, Crisis Survival Skills: Part Two, From Suffering to Freedom, This One Moment, and Opposite Action (all featuring Linehan), and DBT at a Glance: An Introduction to Dialectical Behavior Therapy (featuring Shari Y. Manning and Tony DuBose)"-- Includes index Machine generated contents note: 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 Supplementary Mindfulness Skills -- Mindfulness Worksheets -- *Worksheets for Core Mindfulness Skills -- *Worksheets for Supplementary 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