Anxiety Book Review: Dialectical Beahvior Therapy Workbook
Posted Jun 24 2009 12:09pm
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Workbook offers practical exercised for learning distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and mindfulness skills.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy was originally developed for helping people with Borderline Personality Disorder, since then it has been proven as an effective treatment for many other mental health disorders, including Generalized Anxiety Disorders, Social Phobia, and Panic Disorder.
The book includes a lot of easy to use, easy to remember techniques to learn to be at peace with the events of daily life.
One of the things I use most often with clients is "The Big List of Pleasurable Activities" to distract from painful emotions. The list helps you thing of easy-to-do activities to feel a little bit better for that particular moment: talk to a friend on the phone, exercise, get out of the house, listen to the radio, play video games, knit, or draw a picture.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy was originally developed for helping people with Borderline Personality Disorder, since then it has been proven as an effective treatment for many other mental health disorders, including Generalized Anxiety Disorders, Social Phobia, and Panic Disorder.
The book includes a lot of easy to use, easy to remember techniques to learn to be at peace with the events of daily life.
One of the things I use most often with clients is "The Big List of Pleasurable Activities" to distract from painful emotions. The list helps you thing of easy-to-do activities to feel a little bit better for that particular moment: talk to a friend on the phone, exercise, get out of the house, listen to the radio, play video games, knit, or draw a picture.