Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents - Alec L. Miller

Filling a tremendous need this highly practical book adapts the proven techniques of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to treatment of multiproblem adolescents at highest risk for suicidal behavior and self-injury. The authors are master clinicians who take the reader step by step through understanding and assessing severe emotional dysregulation in teens and implementing individual family and group-based interventions. Insightful guidance on everything from orientation to termination is enlivened by case illustrations and sample dialogues. Appendices feature 30 mindfulness exercises as well as lecture notes and 12 reproducible handouts for Walking the Middle Path a new DBT skills training module for adolescents and their families. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print these handouts and several other tools from the book in a convenient 8 1/2 x 11 size. See also Rathus and Miller's DBT (R) Skills Manual for Adolescents packed with tools for implementing DBT skills training with adolescents with a wide range of problems.

TITLE: Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents

AUTHOR: Alec L. Miller

SKU: 9781462532056

PUBLISHER: Guilford Publications

DATE PUBLISHED: 16/06/2017

PLACE PUBLISHED: United States

PAGES: 346

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 178 mm x 254 mm

WEIGHT: 672 gr