Main description:

*Outstanding sales potential: shows how DBT, a proven nondrug therapy for suicidal adults, can be adapted to help adolescents.
*From coauthor Marsha Linehan, bestselling author of DBT Skills Training Manual.
*Suicide is the third leading cause of death among American teens: treatments are needed and therapists are eager to use DBT with this population.
*Highly practical: includes cases, handouts, sample dialogues, and clinical advice.
*Features a completely new DBT skills training module specifically for troubled teens and their families.

Contents:

Foreword, Charles R. Swenson
Introduction
1. Suicidal Behaviors in Adolescents: Who Is Most at Risk?
2. What Do We Know about Effective Treatments for Suicidal Adolescents?
3. Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Treatment Stages, Primary Targets, and Strategies
4. DBT Program Structure: Functions and Modes
5. Dialectical Dilemmas for Adolescents: Addressing Secondary Targets
6. Assessing Adolescents: Suicide Risk, Diagnosis, and Treatment Feasibility
7. Orienting Adolescents and Families to Treatment and Obtaining Commitment
8. Individual Therapy with Adolescents
9. Including Families in Treatment
10. Skills Training with Adolescents
11. Assessing Progress, Running a Graduate Group, and Terminating Treatment
12. Program Issues
Appendix A. Mindfulness Exercises for Adolescents
Appendix B. Walking the Middle Path Skills: Lecture and Discussion Points
Appendix C. Handouts for Walking the Middle Path Skills