Depressed & Anxious

• Anxiety Disorders Defined
• Depression Disorders Defined
• What is DBT?
• How DBT Can Help
• The Role of Emotional Escape and Avoidance
• DBT: Is It For You?
• How To Use This Book

• Conflict: DBT Works with Conflict
• Dialectics with Mixed Anxiety and Depression
• Activity vs. Passivity
• Self-Focus vs. Other-Focus
• Trust vs. Suspicion
• Transparency vs. Privacy
• Independence vs. Dependence
• Self-Efficacy vs. Seeking Help
• Changing vs. Observing
• Understanding vs. Approval
• Skill Enhancement vs. Self-Acceptance
• Emotion Regulation vs. Emotion Tolerance
• Dialectical Domains
• Types of Conflict
• Conflict and Your Emotions
• Conflict is a Part of Life
• Contradictory Emotions
• Forming Compromises
• Anxiety vs. Peacefulness
• Anger vs. Desire
• Depression vs. Hopefulness
• Despair vs. Inspiration

• Getting Perspective on Emotions
• Invalidation of Emotions
• Anxiety, Depression, and Invalidation
• Identifying Invalidation
• Guilt and Blame
• Behavior and Feelings
• Doing the Work
• Emotional Hardware and Software

• The Problem with Emotions
• The Stigma of Mental Illness
• The Mixed Anxiety and Depression Syndrome
• Self-Preservation vs. Self-Transformation
• The Anxiety Fear of Change: Engulfment
• The Depression Fear of Change: Abandonment
• Feelings and Behavior vs. Identity

• Why Work on Meaning Making?
• Seeing Meaning
• What Is Meaningful to You?
• Fear of Creating the “Wrong” Meaning
• Creating Meaning In Your Life
• The Role of Practice
• The Posture of Respect
• Do You Really Need Meaning?
• Obstacles to Developing Meaning
• Begin Your Practice: SPECIFIC PATHS
• Obstacles to Identifying Supreme Concerns
• Identify Possible Supreme Concerns

• The Urge to Name
• Why be Mindful?
• Keen Observation
• Reclaiming Your Own Experience
• Avoidance
• Creating New Feelings and Thoughts
• Kid’s Stuff
• What is Mindfulness?
• Strategies to Develop Mindfulness
• Be Mindful of One Thing at a Time
• Being Nonjudgmental
• Being Mindful of the Moment
• Focus on Your Senses
• Describe Your Experience Using Language
• Your Observations Are Yours Alone
• Getting Active
• Mindfulness Skills Training: ONE MIND
• Mindfulness Practice: The First Stage
• Mindfulness with Music
• Mindfulness with Aromas
• Mindfulness with Tactile Focus
• Mindfulness with Visual Sensations
• Mindfulness Practice: The Second Stage
• Mindfulness Practice: The Third Stage
• Keep a Practice Record

• Experience It, Then Move On
• Moving Away From the Hurt
• Emotion Theory
• Biology and Emotions
• Bodily Cues
• The Biopsychosocial Model of Emotions
• Thoughts and Emotions
• Behavior and Emotions
• History
• Your Environment and Emotions
• Ways You Can Change
• Emotion Regulation Skills
• Assumptions
• Be Mindful of Current Emotions
• Labeling
• Mindfulness of Painful Emotions
• Getting Perspective
• Primary and Secondary Emotions
• Types of Secondary Emotional Reactions
• Identifying Secondary Emotions
• Discomfort with Your Primary Emotions
• Intense Feelings From Past Events
• Feelings From Assumptions
• Feelings From Anticipations About the Future
• Feelings Evoked from Your Identity
• Increasing Positive Emotional Experiences
• Pleasant Events Schedule
• Mindfulness and Positive Experiences
• What To Do
• Mindfulness to Negative Emotions
• What To Do
• Taking Opposite Action
• What To Do
• Examples of Taking Opposite Action
• Emotion and Action Tendency: Lethargy
• Emotion and Action Tendency: Social Withdrawal
• Emotion and Action Tendency: Fear of Failure
• Emotion and Action Tendency: Fear of Rejection
• Emotion and Action Tendency: Guilt
• Emotion and Action Tendency: Shame
• Emotion and Action Tendency: Depression
• Emotion and Action Tendency: Anger
• Emotion and Action Tendency: Feeling Inadequate
• Emotional Opposites
• Remembering Your Skills: EMOTIONS
• Six Steps to Feeling Better

• When the Pain Doesn’t End
• Effective Coping
• Mindfulness and Distress Tolerance
• Dialectic Conflicts in Distress Tolerance
• Richness of Feeling
• Reduce or Accept Anxiety and Depression through Mindfulness
• Self-Soothing
• Thoughts
• Perspective Taking
• Vision
• Hearing
• Scent
• Taste
• Touch
• Soothing When Depression and Anxiety Are High
• Distraction Skills: ACCEPTS
• Contributing
• Comparisons
• Opposite Emotions
• Pushing Away Thoughts
• Sensations
• IMPROVE the Moment
• Imagery
• Meaning
• Prayer
• Relaxation
• One Thing in the Moment
• Vacation
• Encouragement
• Acceptance and Critical Thinking
• Admitting Your Pain
• Thinking Critically

• The Benefits of Wisdom
• Strategizing with Wisdom
• Urgency and Timing
• Does Your Behavior Reflect Mood or Strategy?
• Getting Strategic: OBJECTIVES
• Emotional Sensitivity and Distrust of Emotions
• Behavior Focus: BEHAVIOR
• Emotionalism: CARES

• Chart: Symptoms and How to Treat Them
• Chart: Mnemonic Review
• Form: DBT Log
• Form: Dialectics
• Form: Meaning Making: SPECIFIC PATHS
• Form: Mindfulness Skills
• Form: Emotion Regulation: Mindfulness to Current Emotions
• Form: Distress Tolerance: Acceptance
• Form: Emotion Regulation: Discriminate Primary From Secondary Emotions
• Form: Emotion Regulation: Challenge Your Assumptions
• Form: Emotion Regulation: You Are Not What You Feel
• Form: Emotion Regulation: Increase Positive Experiences Mindfully
• Form: Emotion Regulation: EMOTIONS
• Form: Distress Tolerance: Self-Soothing
• Form: Distress Tolerance: ACCEPTS
• Form: Distress Tolerance: IMPROVE
• Form: Strategic Behavior Skills: OBJECTIVES
• Form: Strategic Behavior Skills: TRUST
• Form: Strategic BEHAVIOR
• Form: Strategic Behavior: CARES
• Form: DBT Practice Sheets

DBT In Private Practice

CHAPTER 2 Evidence for the Effectiveness of DBT

CHAPTER 3 Pathogenesis: Emotion Regulation as Core Therapeutic Target

CHAPTER 4 Pathotopology: Dialectic Conflict as a Core Therapeutic Target

CHAPTER 5 Dialectic Psychotherapy: Balancing Acceptance with Change

CHAPTER 6 DBT: Not Just for Borderlines Anymore

CHAPTER 7 Psychological Coping Skills Replace Escape and Avoidance

CHAPTER 8 Conducting DBT in Private Practice

Includes a CD containing

• patient worksheets,
• logs,
• handouts and
• 5 PowerPoint programs to run groups or individuals through
• Mindfulness Skills Training,
• Emotion Regulation Skills Training,
• Meaning Making Skills Training,
• Distress Skills Training, and
• Strategic Behavior Skills Training

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