Pioneering clinician and researcher Marsha M. Linehan brings her therapeutic wisdom and down-to-earth style directly to clients in these five outstanding skills training videos. Anyone who has attended Linehan's professional workshops can attest to her masterful instructional approach and empathic presence. Now clients can experience Linehan's teaching first-hand with these easy-to-follow programs enhanced by engaging audiovisual effects. Demonstrated are simple yet powerful techniques for emotion regulation as clients are guided to develop new patterns of behavior and practice them in everyday life. Grounded in the concepts and procedures presented in Linehan's bestselling books, the videos are designed for use on their own or in conjunction with the Skills Training Manual. They are also ideal viewing for clinicians and students seeking to develop their skills training expertise.

Crisis Survival Skills, Part One:
Some causes of emotional distress frankly have no simple remedy--or can't be changed at all. But all of us have short-term crises of one kind or another. What we do about them and how we do it can have a profound effect on our ability to get through them. This program teaches clients seven ways to distract themselves from painful events and emotions and offers invaluable tips for comforting themselves in times of stress.

Videos on DVD are formatted in NTSC format but are readable on most DVD players in any region and are not encoded.

See also Linehan's related videos—Crisis Survival Skills, Part Two, From Suffering to Freedom, This One Moment, and Opposite Action—plus the Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder, which provides detailed guidance and reproducible materials for conducting DBT skills training.