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Do you struggle with overwhelming emotions?

Do they interfere with your relationships, your job, or your life?

...if so, dialectical behavior therapy might be the solution.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, & Distress Tolerance (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)

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The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook is a clear and effective approach to learning DBT skills.

First developed for treating borderline personality disorder, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) has proven effective as a treatment for a range of other mental health problems, especially for those characterized by overwhelming emotions.

Research shows that DBT can improve your ability to handle distress without losing control and acting destructively. In order to make use of these techniques, you need to build skills in four key areas – distress tolerance, mindfulness, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.

This book, a collaborative effort by three mental health experts, offers straightforward, step-by-step exercises for learning these concepts and putting them to work for real and lasting change. Start by working on the introductory exercises and, after making progress, move on to the advanced-skills chapters. Whether you are a professional or a general reader, whether you use this book to support work done in therapy or as the basis for self-help, you’ll benefit from this clear and practical guide to better managing your emotions.

Here’s what one expert said about The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook:

The individual struggling with overwhelming emotions and DBT therapists will benefit significantly from this workbook. McKay, Wood, and Brantley have expanded and translated DBT skills, making Linehan’s iconic work on emotional skill building even more accessible and easy to apply to everyday life.

–Kate Northcott, MA, MFT, is a DBT therapist in private practice with Mindfulness Therapy Associates and is director of New Perspectives Center for Counseling, a non-profit counseling center in San Francisco, CA.

Who Need's Help?

The National Institute of Mental Health estimates that 22 percent of the U.S. adult population struggles with a mental health problem every year, and almost 50 percent of the adult population will struggle with a problem during the course of their lives.

Yet, a 2005 study revealed that people often wait as long as six to twenty-three years to find treatments for problems such as depression and anxiety.

Why wait? For most mental health problems, there are well-researched psychological treatments that have proven to be effective, and in some cases, they’re even more effective than medication.