DBT Skills for Adolescents
Second Edition
Training Manual for Clinicians
Jill H. Rathus and Alec L. Miller
Forewords by Marsha M. Linehan and Michaela A. Swales

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Foreword, Marsha M. Linehan
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface
I. Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training Structure and Strategies
1. An Introduction to Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Skills Training
2. Enhancing Teen Executive Functioning within and outside of DBT: Weaving In Self-Management Skills
3. Structure of DBT Skills Training
4. Managing Skills Training Group Sessions
5. The Art of Conducting DBT Skills Training: Balancing DBT Strategies and Managing Dialectical Tensions
II. Infusing Skills across Treatment Modes, Including DBT-A Caregiver Modes
6. Individual Therapy, Coaching, and the Consultation Team: Infusing Skills across Modes
7. Infusing DBT Family Therapy with Skills
8. DBT Parenting: Supercharging Parent Sessions with DBT Skills
III. Skills Training Modules
9. Self-Management Strategies: General Handouts
10. Orientation to Multifamily Skills Training Group
11. Mindfulness Skills
12. Distress Tolerance Skills
13. Walking the Middle Path Skills
14. Emotion Regulation Skills
15. Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills
References
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