DBT Tool Kits for Teens: Step-by-Step DBT Coping Skills You Can Use Right Away - Softcover

Hiller PsyD, Atara

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798217150908

Publisher: Z Kids, 2025

Synopsis

DBT skills to help teens find calm, stay in control, and handle life's challenges

When stress, school drama, and family problems feel overwhelming, DBT Tool Kits for Teens offers practical strategies to handle it all. Coping skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) are often called "life skills" because they teach people how to manage tough emotions, create healthy relationships, and deal with stressful situations more wisely.

As a DBT-certified clinician for adolescents and families, Dr. Atara Hiller knows how to make these powerful skills easier for teens to understand and apply.

• COVERS ALL FIVE DBT MODULES: Mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and Walking the Middle Path

• 14 READY-TO-USE DBT TOOL KITS: Suggestions on which DBT skills to try for common struggles like test anxiety and peer pressure

• NO DBT EXPERIENCE NEEDED: Clear explanations with step-by-step instructions make DBT skills accessible to any teen who needs them

• TEMPLATES, WORKSHEETS & CHEAT SHEETS: Fill-in-the-blank pages, checklists, and trackers make these coping skills for teens easier to apply

About this title

About the Author

Atara Hiller, PsyD, is a licensed psychologist and a Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)-Linehan Board of Certification (LBC) Certified Clinician. She is co-director of the Trinitas Institute for DBT and Allied Treatments, a DBT-LBC Certified Program, in Elizabeth, New Jersey. In that capacity, Dr. Hiller directs the comprehensive adolescent DBT program, which treats teens and their families with emotion regulation difficulties. She trains and supervises fellow clinicians and psychology graduate students in the practice of DBT, as well as provides individual DBT and co-leads DBT multifamily skills groups. Dr. Hiller also directs and treats teens and families in an outpatient comprehensive adolescent DBT program at the Center for Cognitive Behavior Therapy, a private practice in East Brunswick, New Jersey. She has extensive experience providing evidence-based treatments to children, adolescents, and adults struggling with anxiety, depression, and symptoms of trauma, as well as complex psychosocial stressors. Dr. Hiller has frequently written about and presented on DBT, borderline personality disorder, suicidality and non-suicidal self-injury, and treatment for child sexual abuse.

Edition details

• Publisher: Z Kids
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798217150908
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192