| Description |
xvii, 558 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders |
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Diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders.
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| Contents |
1. Rationale for Psychosocial Skills Training with Borderline Clients -- 2. Practical Issues in Psychosocial Skills Training -- 3. Session Format and Starting Skills Training -- 4. Application of Structural Strategies and Skills Training Procedures to Psychosocial Skills Training -- 5. Application of Other Strategies and Procedures to Psychosocial Skills Training -- 6. Session-by-Session Outlines for Psychosocial Skills Training -- 7. Core Mindfulness Skills -- 8. Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills -- 9. Emotion Regulation Skills -- 10. Distress Tolerance Skills |
| Summary |
"For the average clinician, clinic, or inpatient facility, individuals with borderline personality disorder often represent the most difficult and insoluble cases. The first volume to provide strategies proven effective in controlled clinical trials, this book is a comprehensive, integrated approach to therapy with this population. Marsha Linehan presents specific guidelines that creatively combine the best elements of behavioral, psychoanalytic, strategic, and other commonly employed modalities. A clinical innovator, she has analyzed the aspects of borderline into their component parts and developed a systematized approach to each of them." "The first section of the book presents an overview of the disorder and lays out a theoretical framework to guide the therapy. The second describes in detail how to assess borderline patients and how to organize and prioritize treatment goals and behavioral targets. The core of the treatment is the balance of acceptance and change strategies, both within each therapy interaction and over time. For problem solving with borderline personality disorder, the book provides specific strategies for contingency management, exposure, cognitive modification, and skills training. The last component is further elucidated in the companion Skills Training Manual, which programmatically details procedures and includes client handouts for step-by-step implementation. Finally, to enhance interpersonal communication, Dr. Linehan presents three case management sets: consultation to the patient, environmental intervention, and consultation to the therapist." "Addressing the most stressful patient behaviors that clinicians encounter, the book includes a step-by-step outline for assessing suicide risk, managing suicide threats, and working with chronic suicidal behavior. Integrative approaches for such specific problems as crises, noncompliance, and breakdowns in the therapeutic relationship are also discussed." "Lucidly detailing effective techniques that can be replicated in clinical practice, this volume illuminates the internal experience of borderline individuals and provides clinicians with practical clinical tools for working with them. As such, it is an invaluable resource for all professionals who work with this difficult-to-treat population."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Behaviour therapy |
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Borderline personality disorder |
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Borderline personality disorder - Treatment |
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Cognitive Therapy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-546) and index |
| Subject |
Borderline personality disorder -- Treatment.
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Cognitive therapy.
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Behavior Therapy.
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Borderline Personality Disorder -- therapy.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
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| LC no. |
93020483 |
| ISBN |
0898621836 |
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