Cognitive Behavioral Treatment Of Borderline Personality Disorder

Cognitive Behavioral Treatment Of Borderline Personality Disorder

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The two volumes in Dr. Linehan''s program cover the full range of borderline conditions. In her far-reaching new text, COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL TREATMENT OF BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER, Linehan describes in persuasive clinical detail the development and implementation of DBT. Because the behavioral skills training element of her program is so critical for working with borderline individuals, the companion SKILLS TRAINING MANUAL presents session-by-session guidelines for imparting and integrating into the patient''s repertoire four key psychosocial skills notably absent in borderlines. A previous version of this manual has been successfully used in psychiatric hospitals, community health centers, and other settings. Together, the two pieces add up to new promise for respectful, sustained, effective work with this growing patient group. COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL TREATMENT OF BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER Marsha M. Linehan For the average clinician, clinic, or inpatient facility, individuals with borderline personality disorder often represent the most difficult and insoluble cases. Now, set against the backdrop of intense patient pain, and intense frustration (and often anger) on the part of therapists enlisted to help, comes unexpected new hope in the form of Marsha Linehan''s integrative, biosocial approach to borderlines, which she calls Dialectical Behavior Therapy. At once firmly rooted in cognitive-behavioral strategies for change and specifically targeted at the cluster of behavioral problems of most immediate concern (the suicidal and other therapy-interfering behaviors), this is the only approach to date which has been empirically verified in controlled clinical studies. And it is the only approach which simultaneously addresses the BPD''s profound skills deficits, characteristic dichotomous thought and behavior patterns, and extreme relationship needs. A clinical innovator, Linehan begins by positing a biosocial frame

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