Beschreibung:
The key to flexible, skillful decision making in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) lies in understanding the connections between moment-to-moment clinical strategies and core principles. This lucid guide from leading DBT authority Charles R. Swenson offers clinicians a compass for navigating challenging clinical situations and moving therapy forward--even when change seems impossible. Numerous vivid case examples illustrate DBT in action and show how to use skills and strategies that flow directly from the fundamental paradigms of acceptance, change, and dialectics. Clinicians gain knowledge and confidence for meeting the complex needs of each client while implementing DBT with fidelity.
The key to flexible, skillful decision making in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) lies in understanding the connections between moment-to-moment clinical strategies and core principles. This lucid guide from leading DBT authority Charles R. Swenson offers clinicians a compass for navigating challenging clinical situations and moving therapy forward--even when change seems impossible. Numerous vivid case examples illustrate DBT in action and show how to use skills and strategies that flow directly from the fundamental paradigms of acceptance, change, and dialectics. Clinicians gain knowledge and confidence for meeting the complex needs of each client while implementing DBT with fidelity.
1. Getting Started in Therapy: Pretreatment and the Life-Worth-Living Conversation
2. Introducing DBT's Three Paradigms
3. The Acceptance Paradigm
4. The Change Paradigm
5. The Dialectical Paradigm
6. The DBT Tree: The Structural Anatomy of DBT
7. Goals, Stages, Targets, and Target Priorities
8. Dialectical Dilemmas and Secondary Targets
9. Case Conceptualization in DBT
10. Commitment and Commitment Strategies
11. Behavioral Chain Analysis
12. Validation
13. Dialectical Strategies
14. Skills and Skills Training
15. Prevention and Treatment of Therapist Burnout
Afterword