DBT Skills Training Workbook

Some therapies are so worksheet friendly, they warrant a workbook. DBT is so worksheet friendly that there's a workbook written by the creator of the therapy, Marsha Linehan: DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets.

BPD Resources

Helpful links--including worksheets--collected at Healing from BPD and at The Pinki Perspective. What's BPD? Stands for Borderline Personality Disorder. Find more about the diagnosis on PsychCentral, at NIMH, and/or at Wikipedia.

Distress Intolerance Workbook

From CCI, joining their big collection of free CBT workbooks, here's a new one called "Facing Your Feelings," all about distress tolerance/intolerance.

Worksheets Collection

From cairncenter.com, a substantial group of worksheets, assessment forms, and infosheets covering Borderline Personality Disorder, anxiety, depression, Bipolar Disorder, ADHD, sexual functioning, sleep, anger...and some other stuff.

DBT Worksheets

At the Practice Ground Wiki, here's a page of DBT Worksheets--interpersonal effectiveness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and so on.

DBT Skills Workbook

This DBT workbook may come in handy (especially for therapists): Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills, 101 Mindfulness Exercises and Other Fun Activities for Children and Adolescents shortens and simplifies handouts from the Linehan original and adds new ones--for kids of all ages.

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Workbook

Google Books has the first sections of many workbooks posted and ready for your workbooking. One example, The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook, by McKay, Wood, and Brantley. There are a full 139 pages posted, including lots of worksheets, lots of reading. After 139 pages, you'll know for certain whether you want to buy the book. You may not even need it anymore.

Worksheets Aplenty

Posted at the ehcounseling.com (Christian counseling), a long page of worksheets. Topics include:

• Addiction
• Attachment
• Boundaries
• Communication
• DBT
• DV
• Grief
• Relationships
• Spirituality
• Stress Management

Dig in. Please let me know if anything is particularly good or great.

DBT Extras

More DBT help at--where else?--dbtselfhelp.com. These DBT Extras include:

• Diary Cards
• Flow Charts
• Cognitive Distortions
• Behavior Chain Analysis

...among other items. Again, the Skills Training Manual is your best bet for figuring out what to do with these. Make Marsha Linehan smile. But, then, that costs.

DBT Collection

A collection of client-written DBT worksheets lives here, covering the essentials--Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotional Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness. For the originals, go to the book.

• http://www.dbtselfhelp.com/html/dbt_lessons.html

DBT not just for BPD?

Running groups in a short-term inpatient site, I've gotten a lot of milage out of Marsha Linehan's Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder. Intended for clients with Borderline Personality Disorder, many, if not most, of the concepts and worksheets in the DBT manual work with clients with a wide array of diagnoses.

Particularly valuable are the Distress Tolerance Handouts, which offer simple, client-friendly coping skills for crisis situations, some mindfulness-based, some not. One example that lightens the mood: Using "opposite emotion" in a crisis by singing Helen Reddy's "I Am Woman." Hear clients roar.

	Helen Reddy - I Am Woman
	Found at skreemr.com