Customer Review: Linehan has written an easy-to-read, well organized book on working with BPD; her methods are empirically based. In one review a criticism was expressed re: her use of the female pronoun throughout the book. This didn't distract me from reading and learning; it seemed a commonsense choice on... more info
Customer Review: Any clinician working in an inpatient, outpatient, residential, or ACT team who sees adults, adolescents or families and who is looking to consider implementing a research-proven treatment that works will find something helpful to guide them in this book. Having worked in DBT since the mid-1990's, I... more info
Customer Review: The skills outlined by Fruzzetti are easy to understand and practical to try in ones daily life with their significant other. The book highlights a skill called "validation" which most of us are not even aware of but is a behavior we perform daily. Increasing positive validation and decreasing... more info
Customer Review: This book is wonderful when working within the DBT model with teenaged clients. It addressed issues specific to the adolescent population.
Customer Review: i found the other review of this book so perplexing, i felt i had to say something. this will be a very useful book to folks who are interested in how concepts of acceptance and mindfulness can be integrated with, or change for the better, cognitive behavioral treatments. if you have no idea what... more info
Customer Review: Common sense look at the steps involved in the assembly, training, and continued readiness of school crisis teams. Somewhat limited in providing case studies.