Main description:

Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Adolescents is an essential, user-friendly guide for clinicians who wish to implement DBT for adolescents into their practices. The authors draw on current literature on DBT adaptation to provide detailed descriptions and sample group-therapy formats for a variety of circumstances. Each chapter includes material to help clinicians adapt DBT for specific clinical situations (including outpatient, inpatient, partial hospitalization, school, and juvenile-detention settings) and diagnoses (such as substance use, eating disorders, and behavioral disorders). The book's final section contains additional resources and handouts to allow clinicians to customize their treatment strategies.

Contents:

1. Introduction and Overview 2. Treatment Delivery and Implementation 3. Treatment Team and Continuity of Care K. Michelle Hunnicutt Hollenbough and Jacob M. Klein 4. Outpatient Settings 5. Family Counseling 6. Partial Hospital Programs and Settings Garry S. Del Conte 7. DBT in Inpatient Settings K. Michelle Hunnicutt Hollenbough and Jacob M. Klein 8. Working within School Sites Richard J. Ricard, Mary Alice Fernandez, Wannigar Ratanavivan, Shanice Armstrong, Mehmet A. Karaman, and Eunice Lerma 9. Eating Disorders 10. Conduct Disorder, Probation, and Juvenile Detention Settings K. Michelle Hunnicutt Hollenbough and Jacob M. Klein 11. Substance Use Disorders 12. Other Diagnoses for Consideration 13. Comorbid Diagnoses and Life- Threatening Behaviors 14. Summary and Conclusions Handouts