Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder – May 21, 1993

Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder Paperback – May 21, 1993

Author: Marsha M. Linehan | Language: English | ISBN: 0898620341 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder – May 21, 1993
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• Series: Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Disorders
• Paperback: 180 pages
• Publisher: The Guilford Press; 1 edition (May 21, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0898620341
• ISBN-13: 978-0898620344
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
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In tweleve-step groups they usually say something like "take what you need and leave the rest." I would suggest that non-borderline clients and the practitioners who help them follow that advice with this book. There is no need to erase us from the title of this book so that non-BPDs will feel less shame buying or using it. And there is no need to judge the exercises and handouts as overly simplistic. They are what they are. They were designed to help us (borderlines).

If you are not borderline, and do not have experience working with borderlines, you really don't know what we need. Marsha Linehan does. I'm not claiming that every example or every exercise in the book works for every borderline, but M.L. does not claim that either!

Many borderlines (including myself) were traumatized in early childhood and failed to learn basic skills at that age. Therefore, exercises that to the non-BPD sufferer seem designed for children, were actually designed for people who never had the chance to experience a normal childhood and learn the social skills that others learned as children.

I do agree with the reviewers who say that much of DBT is helpful for people with other diagnoses, and even people who are not mentall ill, but this manual is for US, and does not need to be changed. Those who are not a part of the target audience should use what they can, and leave the rest - without judgement.

Those practitioners who see the applicability of DBT to non-borderline patients should take the time to figure out what works and write new books with new therapies, based on DBT. That is what Marsha Linehan did. She took CBT as a framework and developed DBT for a specific population - people who suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder.

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