DBT Skills for Adolescents Workbook
Second Edition
Handouts for Teens, Caregivers, and Families
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In a convenient large-size format, DBT Skills for Adolescents Workbook, Second Edition, provides more than 100 reproducible DBT skills training handouts for teens and caregivers. All of the materials described in DBT Skills for Adolescents, Second Edition: Training Manual for Clinicians are included for easy reference and use by clients. Handouts from the first edition have been fully redesigned and illustrated by noted clinician-artist Jesse Finkelstein. New handouts address self-management/executive functioning, technology, loneliness, family connection, and specific parent struggles. Note: The e-book edition of this title contains fillable versions of the reproducible tools.
About the Authors
Alec L. Miller, PsyD, is cofounder of Cognitive and Behavioral Consultants, a treatment, training, and consultation center in White Plains and Manhattan, New York; cofounder and Board Chair of the nonprofit Access Psychology Foundation; and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Montefiore Medical Center of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York. Since the 1990s, Dr. Miller has adapted and applied DBT to youth in outpatient, inpatient, and school settings, as well as to youth who have chronic medical illnesses. His publications include over 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, as well as the coauthored books
Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents and
DBT Skills Manual for Adolescents and the DBT STEPS-A and DBT STEPS-E curricula for secondary and elementary school settings. Dr. Miller has trained thousands of clinicians and school personnel in DBT internationally.
Jill H. Rathus, PhD, is a former Professor of Psychology at Long Island University Post, where she directed the DBT Clinical Research Lab. She is also cofounder and codirector of Cognitive Behavioral Associates, a treatment and training center in Great Neck, New York. Dr. Rathus is coauthor of books including
Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents and
DBT Skills Manual for Adolescents, and is a coauthor of the DBT STEPS-A and DBT STEPS-E curricula for secondary and elementary school settings. She consults internationally, has trained thousands of mental health professionals in the United States and worldwide, and is widely published in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Rathus is a recipient of the Cindy Sanderson Outstanding Educator Award from the International Society for the Improvement and Training of DBT and serves as Co-Chair of the Treatment Integrity Committee of the World DBT Association.
Audience
Adolescents receiving DBT for any emotional or psychological difficulty that involves emotional dysregulation; their parents or other caregivers; and those who treat them.