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Skills training manual for treating borderline personality disorder
180 pages
A highly structured, hands-on clinical companion designed to build emotional resilience and practical life skills.
What it feels like
Reading this manual feels like stepping into a well-organized, highly focused clinical workshop. The pace is steady and deliberate, moving rhythmically through session-by-session strategies designed for immediate, practical application. Its mood is deeply grounded and pragmatic, offering a structured atmosphere where complex emotional challenges are met with clear, actionable tools. The prose is straightforward and instructional, prioritizing replicable detail—from lecture notes to photocopiable handouts—over narrative flourish. It is an experience of gathering resources, focused entirely on cultivating mindfulness, emotional regulation, and distress tolerance. Clinicians, therapists, and group facilitators will devour this comprehensive toolkit, finding an authoritative, hands-on companion that balances clinical rigor with the practical wisdom needed to guide patients toward emotional stability.
- Mood
- structured
- focused
- pragmatic
- grounded
- Tone
- clinical
- instructional
- practical
- authoritative
- Pace
- steady
- Themes
- emotional regulation · mindfulness practice · skill-building · distress tolerance · interpersonal effectiveness
- The writing
- Clear, highly structured, and replicable, prioritizing practical instruction and clinical utility over narrative flair.
- The arc
- Moves from recognizing areas of emotional arrest to cultivating actionable strategies for balance and wisdom.
- Who it's for
- Clinicians, therapists, and group facilitators seeking a comprehensive, hands-on toolkit for treating borderline personality disorder.
Content notes
- discussions of borderline personality disorder
- emotional distress
About the book
"This hands-on companion presents in session-by-session replicable detail the clinical strategies designed to remediate four specific skills areas arrested in the BPD patient: "mindfulnesss" (balancing emotion and rationality to achieve wisdom), interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance. A component in Dr. Linehan's comprehensive treatment program, the manual also features practical pointers on when to use the other treatment strategies described in Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Currently employed in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings, this manual provides everything a clinician needs. It includes lecture notes, discussion questions, exercises, and practical advice on what problems are likely to arise and how best to deal with them. It also features an array of client handouts that may be readily photocopied. Originally written for skills training groups, the manual can also be used with individual patients"--Publisher description.
Description from Open Library.
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