An important component of DBT is the use of skills training to help manage the extreme beliefs, actions, and attitudes that form the criteria for borderline personality disorder. In actual therapy sessions, the video shows Dr. Linehan teaching patients the use of such skills as mindfulness, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and emotional regulation. Vividly depicting the various stages of treatment, this program shows how DBT helps clients decrease negative behaviors and work toward personal goals. Designed for therapists, the video is also suitable for use in client and family education. In an especially compelling feature, the video includes live interview sessions between Dr. Linehan and Allen J. Frances, Chairman of the DSM-IV Task Force. In these probing dialogues, Dr. Frances asks Dr. Linehan the nuts-and-bolts questions all clinicians want answered about how DBT works and what its advantages are over other therapies.

Treating Borderline Personality Disorder: The Dialectical Approach

Linehan PhD ABPP, Marsha M.

The Guilford Press

A straightforward introduction for therapists, this video addresses fundamental questions about the nature of borderline personality disorder (BPD), its causes, and how it can effectively be treated with Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Dr. Linehan begins by presenting clinically relevant features of BPD and describing the underlying causes of the disorder, with an emphasis on biosocial factors. Segments of actual therapy sessions illustrate the emotional dysregulation that characterizes BPD and the intense distress that sufferers experience. Dr. Linehan discusses the development of DBT, which arose out of her realization that traditional treatments were not working with this client population, and clearly lays out its concepts and principles. In an especially compelling feature, the video includes live interview sessions between Dr. Linehan and Allen J. Frances, Chairman of the DSM-IV Task Force. In these probing dialogues, Dr. Frances asks Dr. Linehan the nuts-and-bolts questions all clinicians want answered about how DBT works and what its advantages are over other therapies.

Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder: The Dialectical Approach

Some causes of emotional distress frankly have no simple remedy--or can't be changed at all. But all of us have short-term crises of one kind or another. What we do about them and how we do it can have a profound effect on our ability to get through them. This program teaches clients seven ways to distract themselves from painful events and emotions and offers invaluable tips for comforting themselves in times of stress.

Crisis Survival Skills: Part One: Distracting and Self-Soothing

Behavioral Tech, LLC

The skills addressed here help clients 'control the moment' and protect themselves from impulsive or self-destructive responses to difficult situations. Covered are straightforward techniques for seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and staying focused on long-term goals--using tools as simple as a pencil and paper.

Crisis Survival Skills: Part Two: Improving the Moment and Pros and Cons

Opposite Action: Changing Emotions You Want to Change

Pioneering clinician and researcher Marsha M. Linehan brings her therapeutic wisdom and down-to-earth style directly to clients in these five outstanding skills training videos. Anyone who has attended Linehan's professional workshops can attest to her masterful instructional approach and empathic presence. Now clients can experience Linehan's teaching first-hand with these easy-to-follow programs enhanced by engaging audiovisual effects. Demonstrated are simple yet powerful techniques for emotion regulation as clients are guided to develop new patterns of behavior and practice them in everyday life. Grounded in the concepts and procedures presented in Linehan's bestselling books, the videos are designed for use on their own or in conjunction with the Skills Training Manual. They are also ideal viewing for clinicians and students seeking to develop their skills training expertise. Acting opposite to emotions is one of the most effective and efficient ways to change emotions you want to change. Whether it is by doing something nice for a person you are angry at, or approaching something that you fear, this video shows how taking opposite action can modify unwarranted negative emotions and make them feel more manageable. See also Linehan's related video--Crisis Survival Skills: Part One, Crisis Survival Skills: Part Two, From Suffering to Freedom, and This One Moment--plus the Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder, which provides detailed guidance and reproducible materials for conducting DBT skills training.