In this book, our expert authors bring their extensive knowledge to light with creative ideas that work, clinical examples, treatment plans, and strategies for adapting the skills across a variety of settings and age groups. Examples throughout this book will address issues such as: anger, depression, anxiety, phobias, eating disorders, Borderline Personality Disorder, stress management, impulse control, and more. This guide will focus on the following: • Overview of DBT
• Components Used in DBT
• What Disorders Does DBT Treat?
• Mindfulness
• Working with Emotions
• How to Support someone who is going through therapy
• DBT Applications About the Authors: Gillian Galen, PysD, is an instructor in psychology at Harvard Medical School. She is the Program Director Assistant Director of Training at the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital, is a unique, residential DBT program for young women exhibiting self-endangering behaviors and borderline personality traits. She specializes in adolescent psychotherapy, including DBT. She has a particular interest in using mindfulness and yoga in the treatment of BPD and other psychiatric illnesses. Blaise Aguirre, MD, is a trainer in, and specializes in, DBT as well as other treatments such as mentalization-based treatment (MBT) for borderline personality disorder and associated conditions. He is the founding medical director of 3East continuum of care, an array of programs which use DBT to target self-endangering behaviors as well as the symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD) traits. He lectures regularly throughout the world. |
