DBT Skills Training Manual, Second Edition

by Marsha M. Linehan

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Genres: Psychology, Mental Health, Nonfiction, Self Help, Counselling, Social Work, Reference

504 pages, Spiral-bound

Published October 20, 2014

About the author

Marsha Linehan, PhD, ABPP, is a Professor of Psychology and adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle and is Director of the Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics, a research consortium that develops and evaluates treatments for multi-diagnostic, severely disordered, and suicidal populations. Her primary research is in the application of behavioral models to suicidal behaviors, drug abuse, and borderline personality disorder. She is also working to develop effective models for transferring science-based treatments to the clinical community.
She is the developer of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), a treatment originally developed for the treatment of suicidal behaviors and since expanded to treatment of borderline personality disorder and other severe and complex mental disorders involving serious emotion dysregulation. In comparison to all other clinical interventions for suicidal behaviors, DBT is the only treatment that has been shown effective in multiple trials across numerous independent research studies. DBT is effective at reducing suicidal behavior and is cost-effective in comparison to both standard treatment and community treatments delivered by expert therapists. It is currently the gold-standard treatment for borderline personality disorder and has demonstrated utility in the treatment of high substance abuse and eating disorders.
Linehan has authored multiple books, including three treatment manuals: Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder, DBT Skills Training Manual (2nd ed.), and Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder. She serves on a number of editorial boards and has published extensively in scientific journals.
Linehan is the founder of The Linehan Institute, a non-profit organization which helps advance mental health through support for education, research, and compassionate, scientifically-based treatments. Linehan is also the founder of Behavioral Tech LLC, a DBT training and consulting organization, and founder of Behavioral Tech Research, Inc., a company that develops innovative online and mobile technologies to disseminate science-based behavioral treatments for mental disorders.
Linehan was trained in spiritual directions under Gerald May and Tilden Edwards and is a Zen master (Roshi) in both the Sanbo-Kyodan-School under Willigis Jaeger Roshi (Germany) as well as in the Diamond Sangha (USA). She teaches mindfulness via workshops and retreats for health care providers.
She has dedicated her life and research to working with people whose lives are at-risk due to crippling and incapacitating psychological problems.

Reviews

[Emma · Rating 4 out of 5]

Can be read as a thorough how to be a human manual. Even if you're the most well adjusted adult, there's some skills you can pick up or reinforce. Worth a skim.

[Selena (Fae✨inmysparetime) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent skills training manual for therapists to work through with their patients. Provides guidance on running groups and working one on one in a very direct way focusing on specific skills to manage the difficult symptoms of personality disorders.

[Hailey Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

As someone who teaches DBT to clients with substance abuse issues. This book is my guide to all situations.

[Ashley]

exceptional book on DBT by the creator Marsha M Linehan.

[Lizzie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Took me a full year to read, but great tools for mental and relational health.

[James · Rating 5 out of 5]

A useful book. Religious, in the sense of, sets out a life path, or a part of a life path, a way to live, and a momentum; very clearly out of suicidal misery, less clearly toward, ultimately... normal employee-consumer life? Adaptation to the status quo? Sagacious, serene middle-age? Reading it makes me want to make an anti-DBT, to teach (rather than browbeat) sagacious, serene middle-aged (or otherwise privileged) people how to care more about their (social, physical) environment, be more affected by it and less self-regulated, think more in terms of black-and-white (with dialectics? Perhaps a dialectics cast in a different vibe than DBT's, of urgency rather than skillful acceptance) make the least borderline people somewhat more borderline in some ways -- I suppose to bring a good immaturity to people whose maturity is somewhat bad.

Again, a useful book with valuable skills in it, good vocabulary, well-designed, with a specific, distinctive vibe (through writing style and design of the therapy), a good example of how to make a life path -- yet, ultimately, I think, best intended to bring people out of suicidality and then set somewhat to the side while another life path is adopted which relates the client (or some non-client who happens to read the book) back to the outside world, as skillful as having been instructed, with as much longing for things to be better as when miserable.

[Mercy · Rating 5 out of 5]

In the DBT Skills Training Manual (Third Edition), Marsha Linehan has added a great wealth of additional skills to the Dialectical Behavior Therapy program - despite the original version having already helped a great number of people suffering with Borderline Personality Disorder. It huge increase in material and skills can feel overwhelming, but working with a certified DBT team is part and parcel for proper treatment; your therapist and group leaders will be your guides.

This manual and the accompanying workbook has been invaluable to the therapy team I have had the honor of being a client of and my own copies of these books has given me quick access to such important reference materials as I continue building my life worth living.

[Ja123 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Complements the worksheets book really well. Explains rationale for worksheets provided in the handbook, and offers solutions for common problems that patients face. I'm not a therapist; I'm someone who identifies with BPD/cPTSD symptoms but is too afraid to seek help due to entrenched stigma (I'm helping myself) , and still found this manual extremely helpful.

[Lisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

We heard that an updated manual was coming….for years. I was so glad when this came out finally!! It expanded so much on the skills and handouts from the first manual and gave a lot more theory per skill and suggestions for how to teach them. I provide this type of treatment so I am always reading this. I wouldn’t say this is a cover to cover read and it’s really not for laypersons.

[Debbie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Spent a few hours mindfully reading this and i think there are quite a few breakdowns of behaviors and way of reviewing these that are helpful to me and would be helpful to clients.

[Marcy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent read. If you are in psyc and/or social work, this book should be on your list.

[Amy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Everything you need to know for DBT. Wonderful step by step instruction to provide clients. If you ever are interested in DBT, this would be the book to purchase

[Izabella Bratek · Rating 3 out of 5]

I did not like the format.... Very confusing for me. But the content was good. I guess it is to be used more as an instruction manual, which I should of known from the title.....

[Jasmin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Have read and used parts of this thoroughly with good effect with a number of clients.

[Kate Emery · Rating 5 out of 5]

For me, this is a sacred text. It is a must for anyone seeking dialectical behavioral therapy.

[Hunter · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is a difficult thing to rate, especially because instead of working through it over weeks, I read it in a few days and plan to go back for reflection later. Criticize me as you will, the issues I will speak on wouldn’t have been made better had I used it properly, but I am getting ahead of myself. As of now, I have yet to find this book properly useful. There is a lot I did not like:

- I did not appreciate the cutesy writing, nor the vague, non-committal spiritualism sprinkled throughout. It was insulting at times and annoying at others
- At times ideas were incongruent with one another, some ideas were completely nonsensical in general (overcoming disgust by eating the thing you find revolting)
- A legitimate piece of advice it offers regarding shame is to hide the worst actions you did as to not lose your support group. This is a pathetic mindset, to seek redemption and to heal requires you to bear everything, only then can one be reborn in cleansing fire. Extremely concerning advice
- “In dealing with people, consider whether or not they are in your debt or you in theirs”. Yet another uncomfortable dynamic promoted. Humans are not a means to an end, favors are not reciprocal. Not a soul owes another a single goddamn thing, emotions are not currency
- An obsession with toxic positivity is displayed throughout the book to a level I had yet seen, it is to the point of delusion. There is nothing wrong in positivity, I especially see its importance here, but is replacing one’s delusions with another just because the new one may be beneficial really useful? On page 282 reality rejection is specifically demonized, does the author not realize the hypocrisy?
- For how focused this is on self improvement, the self is always coupled to other beings, becoming comfortable being alone is scarcely a focus, I feel that to be an immense misstep. I understand therapy in general is not geared toward self actualization, I just do not care, it should be. I will not excuse this book because it maintains the status quo, the status quo is damaging and foolish. This shitty field needs a rework, I did not expect this book to accomplish this, but I will not praise it simply because it maintained the wrong direction the field has taken
- In the later half of the book, a “check which answer works better” appears. I fucking hate this and will not elaborate further
- Under TIP skills, intense exercise is listed as a way to “to calm down your body when it is revved up by emotion”. While this makes sense in hypothesis, this is a myth, intense emotion is deepened by cathartic movements. I was suspended to read this in articles too, as I often feel better after exercise, but likely this is due to the release of endorphins, the emotions remained untouched. The author should know this, it is their only job
- The diving response is incorrectly explained either due to oversimplification or just foolishness


Overall this feels dangerously close to Eckhart Tolle bullshit, something that should not be the case for a manual that seeks to improve serious mental health complications and disorders. While I fully admit to be hypercritical of this text, I certainly did find some passages useful, I have written all of this as I feel it deserves nothing but scrutiny considering its purpose

[mohamed nouari · Rating 5 out of 5]

The new skills in this manual were worth waiting for. One request though, please, please, please activate the text-to-speech option for this book. Perhaps it was an oversight by the publisher, but there is no reason to have this option disabled.
Buy the ebook now
https://ebouks.com/product/dbt-skills...

[Luke B · Rating 4 out of 5]

A bit of repetition but lots of notes and highlighted sections. Very helpful for implementing skills training, coping ahead for group and troubleshooting common issues in DBT sessions.

I struggled to get through the first few chapters as they are dry and research-based, the sections exploring the skills were much more practical and accessible.

[Kimberly · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is meant to be used during a DBT skills course - so it's not organized or intended for independent reading - but it is a great book, with useful skills, that virtually everyone can benefit from.

[albin james · Rating 5 out of 5]

This has detailed discussions and notes on dialectical skills and could be a valuable resource for many.

[Tom Parsons · Rating 5 out of 5]

Extremely helpful. This manual is a must for effective evidence based practice.

[Jun · Rating 3 out of 5]

worked with this during dbt therapy... some of the things written are really outdated but i suppose it teaches me that everything is chemical and im not really broken, my brain is

[Trish Fox nunley · Rating 5 out of 5]

The original DBT workbook. Used as a reference and practice worksheets, you'll never be "done" with this book, but it will change your life.

[Megan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Marsha Linehan is amazing. I recommend this behavior therapy to everyone and anyone.

[Deanna Durben · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reading for my summer research lol but learning a lot, it's good at explaining everything

[Evil Secret Ninja · Rating 4 out of 5]

The author can be a little dry at times but this is her treatment modality so it is great.

[Caroline · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just gives you everything you need, word for word, in order to run a DBT group after your training.

[Kasandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

A wonderful place to start if you want to get trained in DBT or just incorporate some DBT skills into your counseling tool box. Be forewarned it's really a companion text to the workbook rather than a stand alone - and you do have to buy them separately contrary to what is said in this book lol

[Randy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good overview of dbt. Lots of skills activities and worksheets. Recommend to both new and experienced dbt users.

[Ricky · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very helpful!