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Title: Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder by Marsha M. Linehan ISBN: 0-89862-034-1 Publisher: Guilford Press Pub. Date: 21 May, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $33.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (26 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book....for anyone
Comment: I'm a psychology intern and we use this manual for multiple disorders, not just BPD. The skills, as others have suggested are essential to living a healthy, happy life, regardless of one's 'problems.' While most modern day psychotherapeutic techniques preach change, Linehan's work centers on centering. Acceptance balanced with change. Emotion balanced with logic. It's a wonderful new perspective on treating psychological disorders. And as an added bonus, in the age of managed care, it's one of the few treatments rooted in a humanistic understanding that will be readily reimbursed by HMO's. As both a therapist and a consumer of psychological literature, this work stands as one of the most helpful available. Well worth the money. And you can make copies of the handouts WITHOUT worrying about copyright infringement because the author has graciously given permission to do so. Linehan is really an asset to the psychological community.
Rating: 3
Summary: I would change the title
Comment: Some of the cognitive behavioral techniques taught in this book-yo be used in both groups and individual therapy, are extremly useful and practical. I don't like the fact that DBT therapy is primarily seen as treatment for borderlines, because I have had people in my groups with multiple disorders and respond very well to DBT (ie PTSD, anger management), and the main complaint is that they feel when they puchace the book, they are being labled into one catagory, rather than subscribing to one type of treatment (DBT). Having "BPD" still has a stigma associated with it, I don't care what anyone says, but no one really knows what DBT is in the regular community. So I think the book should be called "Skills training in DBT Therapy"--It doesn't make people assume you have a specific diagnosis.
My second issue with the book is that some of excercises are pretty corney--The point of the excercise are important and very useful, but the examples...I'm not quite what age group they are geard for since I've used them with both young and older group members. If anything, they have created a bit of humor, but they are not realistic and don't apply to everyday life.
I continue to use the book, with modifications, and take the emphasis of the BPD and focus more on learning the skills
Rating: 4
Summary: Highly helpful for high functioning, motivated borderlines
Comment: This manual is highly effective for treating higher intellectually functioning and reasonably motivated borderlines. The handouts are especially helpful and they help to present the treatment in methods presentable to many clients (although I have found some borderlines become overly dependent on the handouts and conversely develop compulsions and obsessions centered around their DBT handouts and journals). I work in a residential treatment facility for SPMI (all clients also have at least one Axis I diagnosis), and most of our clients have too low intellectual functioning to grasp many of the DBT concepts. I especially enjoy the Zen focus of Linehan's DBT.
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