Acquiring Competency and Achieving Proficiency With Dialectical Behavior Therapy: The Worksheets

This is an invaluable resource for anyone using DBT with youth or adult clients during individual sessions, group therapy, family meetings, classroom settings, recreational activities, and milieu environments. These worksheets can be completed in sessions and as homework assignments. There are a plethora of worksheets included in this volume along with a crosswalk of all the D.B.T. in Life skills. The worksheets are designed to assist clients in learning and practicing skills in their lives. The skills are defined in concrete, easy to understand language that is accessible to a wide range of clients. Most worksheets provide information about the skills as well as opportunities for the clients to think through how the skills will assist them in building a life worth living. The worksheets can be used to appeal to all three learning styles. They are also responsive to attention span by focusing the client on the task at hand of learning DBT skills. Clinicians will find this volume full of innovative perspectives and engaging activities. Clinicians are encouraged to use these worksheets in individualized manners to meet the clients' needs and enhance their strengths. There is no particular order or way to use these worksheets. With all of these DBT tools in their clinical toolkit, clinicians can easily customize their DBT practice.

Chapter 3 contains general worksheets that orient individuals to DBT along with streamlined versions of diary cards, chain analysis, relapse prevention plans and recovery plans.

Chapter 4 has many worksheets that make mindfulness in general and specific skills accessible and relevant for clients of all ages.

Chapters 5 & 6 teach clients a variety of strategies for distress tolerance and emotional regulation to foster emotional competency, frustration tolerance and impulse control.

Chapter 7 is dedicated to empowering clients to be effective in their interpersonal relationships through boundaries, assertiveness, self-respect and investing in healthy relationships.

Using both Volumes I & II will increase your clinical competency along with making DBT fun, interesting and relevant to a variety of individuals, families and groups.

Cathy Moonshine, Ph.D., MAC, CADC III, is the Executive Director of a private consulting firm, Moonshine Consulting, as well as the assistant professor at the School of Professional Psychology at Pacific University in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Moonshine is an expert trainer, clinical supervisor and clinician. In 2007, Dr. Moonshine created and published a DBT board game, playing cards, bingo, and bonanza dice game.

Dr. Moonshine is largely self-taught in Dialectic Behavior Therapy ("DBT"). She has read many books and professional articles on DBT and has utilized clinical supervision and consultation with colleagues to increase her competency with this model. Dr. Moonshine completed her doctoral education at Pacific Graduate School of Psychology in Palo Alto, CA. She received her Master's from Seattle University and Bachelor's from the University of Redlands.

Dr. Moonshine has modified DBT to work with clients, graduate students, supervisees, and in program oversight. Dr. Moonshine focuses on balancing dialectics, being mindfully present, and making use of DBT skills. The DBT skills that Dr. Moonshine utilizes in her work include ones originally created by Dr. Marsha Linehan and/or other authors. Dr. Moonshine has sought to utilize the most successful aspects of the traditional DBT model in combination with her own successful treatment philosophies, patient methods, and teaching skills.

Dr. Moonshine has over 20 years of experience in public and private mental health and substance abuse treatment settings across all levels of care. Dr. Moonshine provides licensure supervision and collegial consultation to mental health, addictions and dual diagnosis clinicians. She works with systems of care and individual clinicians to implement and sustain evidence-based practices. Dr. Moonshine serves as Clinical Director for nearly 10 years in Portland, Oregon. In addition to Clinical Director duties, Dr. Moonshine continues to make an impact in the local, state and national treatment communities with her consultation, supervision and trainings. Dr. Moonshine is considered an expert in the areas of addictions and dual diagnosis treatment.