Featuring skills trainings guidelines for over 48 skills handouts and assignments, this clinician’s guide is the first published comprehensive manual for DBT Next Steps and contains all of the background and principles to guide the treatment.

 

DBT Next Steps was designed for clients with borderline personality disorder or other mood-related disorders who are unable to work due to their emotional or psychiatric symptoms.  This novel treatment offers a way to stretch across the divide for the client who successfully completed Standard DBT and hasn’t achieved their life worth living ambitions to work, go to school, or be self-sufficient.  

 

DBT Next Steps is based on and similar to standard DBT but focuses on contingency management and exposure strategies with an expanded skills trainings curriculum geared towards increasing self-sufficiency, and finding success at employment-related goals. This manual features guidelines for DBT clinicians utilizing the DBT Next Steps approach that was developed over a period of 20 years at the University of Washington. In this manual, you will find useful and accessible content on DBT Next Steps skills training, exposure-based strategies, and using contingencies to create capabilities for clients as they gain momentum towards their life worth living goals.