Marsha M. Linehan

Las personas con trastornos de personalidad límite suelen tener importantes déficits en habilidades conductuales. Este libro es una detallada guía para la enseñanza de cuatro grupos de habilidades esenciales: la efectividad interpersonal, la regulación de emociones, la tolerancia al malestar y la conciencia. Su propósito es enseñar a llevar a cabo los procedimientos y principios que la autora defiende en lo que se refiere a los enfoques de este tipo de tratamientos.En la actualidad, el presente libro se está empleando con éxito en unidades de tratamiento internas y externas. Sus contenidos proporcionan todo lo necesario para que cualquier profesional lleve a la práctica el programa, tanto en la terapia individual como en la grupal. Además, incluye pequeños textos de explicación para los clientes, temas para el debate, ejercicios y consejos prácticos para superar los problemas que suelen encontrar los formadores en habilidades.

La Terapia Dialéctico Conductual (DBT) creada por la Dra. Marsha Linehan ha demostrado eficacia en el tratamiento y la prevención de los problemas de salud mental asociados a la desregulación emocional. Este manual esta orientado a los entrenadores de habilidades y terapeutas para el entrenamiento en habilidades DBT. Se trata de una guia valiosa con explicacion de fichas y hojas de trabajo, notas didacticas e indicaciones, resultado de la acumulacion de experiencia e investigaciones en el entrenamiento de habilidades en millares de consultantes en varios paises del mundo. Los profesionales de salud mental realicen o no DBT como su modelo de tratamiento principal encontraran en los manuales de entrenamiento en habilidades para el terapeuta y para el consultante un aporte invaluable a la clinica actual.

Marsha Linehan tells the story of her journey from suicidal teenager to world-renowned developer of the life-saving behavioral therapy DBT, using her own struggle to develop life skills for others.This book is a victory on both sides of the page.Gloria SteinemAre you one of us? a patient once asked Marsha Linehan, the world-renowned psychologist who developed Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Because if you were, it would give all of us so much hope. Over the years, DBT had saved the lives of countless people fighting depression and suicidal thoughts, but Linehan had never revealed that her pioneering work was inspired by her own desperate struggles as a young woman. Only when she received this question did she finally decide to tell her story.In this remarkable and inspiring memoir, Linehan describes how, when she was eighteen years old, she began an abrupt downward spiral from popular teenager to suicidal young woman. After several miserable years in a psychiatric institute, Linehan made a vow that if she could get out of emotional hell, she would try to find a way to help others get out of hell too, and to build a life worth living. She went on to put herself through night school and college, living at a YWCA and often scraping together spare change to buy food. She went on to get her PhD in psychology, specializing in behavior therapy. In the 1980s, she achieved a breakthrough when she developed Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, a therapeutic approach that combines acceptance of the self and ways to change. Linehan included mindfulness as a key component in therapy treatment, along with original and specific life-skill techniques. She says, "You can't think yourself into new ways of acting; you can only act yourself into new ways of thinking."Throughout her extraordinary scientific career, Marsha Linehan remained a woman of deep spirituality. Her powerful and moving story is one of faith and perseverance. Linehan shows, in Building a Life Worth Living, how the principles of DBT really workand how, using her life skills and techniques, people can build lives worth living.