DBT Made Simple

A Step-by-Step Guide to Dialectical Behavior Therapy

By: Sheri Van Dijk MSW

Narrated by: Randye Kaye

Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins

Publisher's summary

Originally developed for the treatment of borderline personality disorder, dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, has rapidly become one of the most popular and most effective treatments for all mental health conditions rooted in out-of-control emotions. However, there are limited resources for psychologists seeking to use DBT skills with individual clients. In the tradition of ACT Made Simple, DBT Made Simple provides clinicians with everything they need to know to start using DBT in the therapy room.

The first part of this book briefly covers the theory and research behind DBT and explains how DBT differs from traditional cognitive behavioral therapy approaches. The second part focuses on strategies professionals can use in individual client sessions, while the third section teaches the four skills modules that form the backbone of DBT: core mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. The book includes case examples and example therapist-client dialogue - everything clinicians need to equip their clients with these effective and life-changing skills.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2012 Sheri Van Dijk (P)2021 Tantor

Very Helpful

Took almost 1yr, I am not a clinician. Every section, noteworthy. Looking forward to reading more books by this author.

What a helpful resource!

I listened to this entire book within a week. The content was so clearly laid out and gave a really good overview of DBT. the accompanying PDF also has a lot worksheets and helpful visuals. the only downside is the narrator voice is a bit robotic, but the content was so good it didn't bother me that much.

Informative and helpful

Really helped me to understand how DBT can help! This is well written and organized.

A great summary of DBT therapy

Lots of DBT tips, very practical, a great summary of DBT therapy, written in an easy to comprehend manner.

Horrible narration

The narrator whistles every hard S sound. It’s so distracting and makes it difficult to focus on the content. I guess it’s a good way to practice the skills…

skills and examples were great

I found the skills to be easy to follow and helpful. The book is good for both professionals and novice learners without tons of jargon or hard to follow concepts.

Couldn’t understand the website for supplemental materials

I was not able to understand the website from the book to locate the supplemental material.

Why?

Why did the author keep identifying the client as she /her? It’s stereotypical and harmful.

NOT good for self-help...Very good for Clinicians

I read psychology books all the time even textbooks but this was not a good self-help book at all. There are many many other self-help books that will teach you DBT skills that are much better than this . I found actually that it gave me too much information about what skills my therapist might be "using on me" and those are things that , while I'm in my therapist office I'll be distracted by & that kind of negates the therapy part of therapy.