The Skills Training Manual for Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A Cl

The Skills Training Manual for Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A ClThe Skills Training Manual for Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A Clinician's Guide for Treating Disorders of Overcontrol By Lynch, Thomas R. Condition: BRAND NEW Format: Paperback Number of Pages 648 Publisher New Harbinger Publications Radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RO DBT) is a groundbreaking, transdiagnostic treatment model for clients with difficult to treat overcontrol (OC) disorders, such as anorexia nervosa, chronic

The Skills Training Manual for Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A Clinician's Guide for Treating Disorders of Overcontrol

By Lynch, Thomas R.
Condition: BRAND NEW
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages 648
Publisher New Harbinger Publications


Radically open-dialectical behavior therapy (RO-DBT) is a groundbreaking, transdiagnostic treatment model for clients with difficult-to-treat overcontrol (OC) disorders, such as anorexia nervosa, chronic depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Written by the founder of RO-DBT, Thomas Lynch, this is the first and only session-by-session training manual to help you implement this evidence-based therapy in your practice.As a clinician, you re familiar with dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) and its success in treating clients with emotion dysregulation disorders. But what about clients with overcontrol disorders? OC has been linked to social isolation, aloof and distant relationships, cognitive rigidity, risk aversion, a strong need for structure, inhibited emotional expression, and hyper-perfectionism. And yet perhaps due to the high value our society places on the capacity to delay gratification and inhibit public displays of destructive emotions and impulses problems linked with OC have received little attention or been misunderstood. Indeed, people with OC are often considered highly successful by others, even as they suffer silently and alone.RO-DBT is based on the premise that psychological well-being involves the confluence of three factors: receptivity, flexibility, and social-connectedness. RO-DBT addresses each of these impo