Acquiring Competency and Achieving Proficiency With Dialectical Behavior Therapy: The Worksheets - Softcover

Moonshine, Cathy, Ph.D.

 
9780979021855: Acquiring Competency and Achieving Proficiency With Dialectical Behavior Therapy: The Worksheets

Synopsis

Acquiring Competency and Achieving Proficiency with Dialectical Behavior Therapy Volume 2: Companion Worksheets is an invaluable resource for anyone using DBT with youth or adult clients during individual sessions, group therapy, family meetings, classroom settings, recreational activities, and milieu environments. Worksheets can be completed in sessions and as homework assignments. There are a plethora of worksheets included in this volume along with a crosswalk of all the D.B.T. in LifeT skills. The worksheets are designed to assist clients in learning and practicing skills in their lives. The skills are defined in concrete, easy to understand language that is accessible to a wide range of clients. Most worksheets provide information about the skills as well as opportunities for the clients to think through how the skills will assist them in building a life worth living. The worksheets can be used to appeal to all three learning styles. They are also responsive to attention span by focusing the client on the task at hand of learning DBT skills. Clinicians will find this volume full of innovative perspectives and engaging activities. Clinicians are encouraged to use these worksheets in individualized manners to meet the clients' needs and enhance their strengths. There is no particular order or way to use these worksheets. With all of these DBT tools in their clinical tool kit, clinicians can easily customize their DBT practice.

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Review

"We have had lots of success in using Dr. Moonshine's DBT resources including the worksheets in this volume as well as her games, posters and fortune cookies. These worksheets are visually stimulating, easy to understand and engaging. They can be used in a variety of settings ... applicable to teenagers and adults with mental health difficulties.." -- Tracy Varner, LMHC, CDP "Clinical Supervisor at Daybreak"

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