DBT Skills Training Manual: Practical Workbook for Therapists

DBT Skills Training Manual: Practical Workbook for Therapists is a work by Anthony Scott (2020).

Core claims

• DBT integrates cognitive-behavioral techniques with Eastern mindfulness practices through a dialectical framework that holds acceptance and change as simultaneous therapeutic imperatives rather than competing goals.
• The four core modules — core mindfulness, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and distress tolerance — provide a comprehensive skills repertoire for managing the emotional dysregulation that underlies borderline personality disorder and a growing range of other clinical presentations.
• Radical acceptance, the capacity to acknowledge reality as it is without fighting against it, functions as the foundation of distress tolerance and represents DBT’s most distinctive contribution to the broader therapeutic landscape.

Related questions

• How does DBT’s dialectical framework resolve the tension between accepting clients as they are and pushing for behavioral change?
• What is radical acceptance and how does it function within the distress tolerance module?
• How has DBT been adapted beyond its original application to borderline personality disorder?

See also

• Library page: /library/the-clinic/scott-dbt-skills-training/

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