Outcome research has identified cognitive behavioral treatment strategies as efficacious in treating marital/couple distress. Walking the practitioner through the therapy, session by session, Drs. Rathus and Sanderson clearly illustrate clinical applications of key concepts of cognitive behavioral marital therapy, enhancing the book's utility with a variety of clinical tools, assessment measures, and vignettes.

Marital Distress: Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for Couples (Clinical Application of Evidence-Based Psychotherapy)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Rathus, Jill H.

Sanderson, William C.

Mental Health

Jason Aronson, Inc.

DBT Skills Manual for Adolescents

From leading experts who have trained thousands of professionals in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), this manual provides indispensable tools for treating adolescents with emotional or behavioral problems of any level of severity. Clinicians are guided step by step to teach teens and parents five sets of skills: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Walking the Middle Path (a family-based module developed by the authors specifically for teens), Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness. Designed for optimal clinical utility, the book features session outlines, teaching notes, discussion points, examples, homework assignments, and 85 reproducible handouts, in a large-size format for easy photocopying. Purchasers also get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. See also the authors' Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents (with Marsha M. Linehan), which delves into skills training and other DBT components for those at highest risk.

Self-Help

Miller, Alec L.

Death & Grief

The Guilford Press

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills have been demonstrated to be effective in helping adolescents manage difficult emotional situations, cope with stress, and make better decisions. From leading experts in DBT and school-based interventions, this unique manual offers the first nonclinical application of DBT skills. The book presents an innovative social–emotional learning curriculum designed to be taught at the universal level in grades 6-12. Explicit instructions for teaching the skills--mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness--are provided in 30 lesson plans, complete with numerous reproducible tools: 99 handouts, a diary card, and three student tests. The large-size format and lay-flat binding facilitate photocopying; purchasers also get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by T. Chris Riley-Tillman.

DBT Skills in Schools: Skills Training for Emotional Problem Solving for Adolescents (DBT STEPS-A) (The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series)

Mazza, James J.

Dexter-Mazza, Elizabeth T.

Murphy, Heather E.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents

Filling a tremendous need, this highly practical book adapts the proven techniques of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to treatment of multiproblem adolescents at highest risk for suicidal behavior and self-injury. The authors are master clinicians who take the reader step by step through understanding and assessing severe emotional dysregulation in teens and implementing individual, family, and group-based interventions. Insightful guidance on everything from orientation to termination is enlivened by case illustrations and sample dialogues. Appendices feature 30 mindfulness exercises as well as lecture notes and 12 reproducible handouts for "Walking the Middle Path," a DBT skills training module for adolescents and their families. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print these handouts and several other tools from the book in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. See also Rathus and Miller's DBT Skills Manual for Adolescents, packed with tools for implementing DBT skills training with adolescents with a wide range of problems.

Linehan, Marsha M.

From leading experts who have trained thousands of professionals in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), this manual provides indispensable tools for treating adolescents with emotional or behavioral problems of any level of severity. Clinicians are guided step by step to teach teens and parents five sets of skills: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Walking the Middle Path (a family-based module developed by the authors specifically for teens), Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness. Designed for optimal clinical utility, the book features session outlines, teaching notes, discussion points, examples, homework assignments, and 85 reproducible handouts, in a large-size format for easy photocopying. Purchasers also get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. See also the authors'  Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents (with Marsha M. Linehan), which delves into skills training and other DBT components for those at highest risk. 

In the first comprehensive volume of its kind, Assessment of Family Violence describes and reviews traditional, time-tested instruments as well as more recent assessment methods in the field of family violence. Here practitioners, researchers, and program evaluators will find a wealth of assessment information at their fingertips. Several dozen methods-namely instruments developed for and applied to assessment of violence, risk factors, its correlates, and sequelae as it occurs in the family-are included in an easy-to-read and handy reference format. This volume provides detailed information for each assessment, including development and description of the assessment, target population information, equipment needs, format of the assessment, administration and scoring guidelines, psychometric analysis, primary and related references, and scale availability, as well as advantages, limitations, and general recommendations for practitioners and researchers. Also included are a general overview of the field and matters pertaining to the assessment of family violence, as well as information on test construction and psychometrics.

Assessment of Family Violence: A Handbook for Researchers and Practitioners

Politics & Social Sciences

Feindler, Eva L.

Silver, Laura Beth

Sociology

Amer Psychological Assn

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