Matthew McKay PhDThe Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, ... (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)

I’ve been to several DBT courses and have used this book every time. Right now I’m on a self-guided DBT journey. This book really helps explain DBT and emotions in a thoughtful way. There’s also examples and exercises that follow each module, which are all super helpful and beneficial. If you’re working on DBT and are looking for further guidance, I highly recommend this book. One of the interpersonal effectiveness skills even saved my relationship with my mother. I know reading through some of these chapters, it might seem silly to do some of the exercises. Trust me and do them. It has done wonders in my life and I only wish the same for others on this journey. (:

The book itself has been helpful!

Good workbook. I very much love working out of mine.

This workbook saved my life. If you're struggling with overwhelming emotions, regulating your emotions, or worse, this book is the answer. Please try it.

I have found this book immensely helpful. I'm not finished with it yet, and plan to update the review once I do. It has many ways to help you process and cope. It empowers you to take action in a way that is productive and healthy. I do recommend it.There is a word of caution that may be important for some. So far as I've read this book lacks a woman's voice and input. There were a few sections which can be very triggering to women who have ever been trapped in an abusive relationship and were unsafe, or lacking resources and support to "just leave" as this book mentions (rather flippantly in a few places), without acknowledging the near impossible task it can present for some women, and the very real danger that can bring on some women and their children. I found those parts extremely triggering and retraumatizing to read it put so flippantly. It is so triggering I usually end up having to take a break from the book for a few days in those parts and spend time just trying to re-regulate myself.It also, so far, makes most of life's problems about dealing with destructive anger. This is very important, and helpful, but again, comes up lacking, if anger is not your default-most common, or most painful issue. For abuse victims, or people who deal more with PTSD, despair, depression, fear, anxiety, and other emotions, other than anger, there is a lot of helpful information, but it does focus more on anger than these other things. The examples so far have all been about people being angry. Though I do believe the skills will help people with other things besides anger (and do help me that way).Overall, the book can be over-simplified and triggering at parts. I think for me I need to just skip those parts because otherwise I am learning a lot, and I find it helpful enough that I don't want to give up on the book. I also am only 1/3 of the way thru it.If I could make a suggestion to the authors for the next release it would be to include more nuance, people can be suffering from many things other than difficult relationships and default anger. Poverty is traumatizing and most of the time not the fault of the poor. Natural disasters can be life destroying and can't be helped by the victims of it. Health problems, disability and severe sickness can happen to people thru no fault of their own, but still needs to be coped thru and for those who suffer to find a way to accept it. Some people are a victim of past abuse during a vulnerable time in their life, such as childhood and are now dealing with PTSD, trying to recover. Some people are trapped and unsafe in current abuse and need help to get out and hold themselves together in the meantime. I would also say, please include a woman's voice and input in the next release.

I hardly write reviews, but i struggled for so long. I've seen many therapists, doctors, and psychiatrists, but this book is something that really helped me. I like to carry it around with me so if im having a issue i can easily refer to it. That being considered, it is kind of large to carry around, but i still find it valuable to do so.

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this has been so ridiculously helpful while i can be on meds, but i just don’t have time to get into a therapy program