Recommended Reading
Below is a list of books that I regularly suggest my clients read for additional insight and support while working with me.
About DBT
DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets
by Marsha M. Linehan
Featuring more than 225 user-friendly handouts and worksheets, this is an essential resource for clients learning dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills, and those who treat them. All of the handouts and worksheets discussed in Marsha M. Linehan's DBT Skills Training Manual, Second Edition, are provided, together with brief introductions to each module written expressly for clients.
For Family & Friends
Loving Someone With Borderline Personality Disorder
by Shari Y. Manning, PhD
People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) can be intensely caring, warm, smart, and funny, but their behavior often drives away those closest to them. If you're struggling in a tumultuous relationship with someone with BPD, this is the book for you.
Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder: A Family Guide for HEaling & Change
by Linda A. Dimeff, PhD
Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder is a compassionate and informative guide to understanding this profoundly unsettling—and widely misunderstood—mental illness, believed to affect approximately six percent of the general population.
Helping Teens Who Cut: Using DBT Skills to End Self-Injury
by Michael Hollander, PhD
Tens of thousands of worried parents have turned to this authoritative guide for information and practical guidance about the growing problem of teen self-injury.
The High-Conflict Couple: A DBT Guide to Finding PEace, Intimacy, and Validation
by Alan E. Fruzzetti, PhD
You hear and read a lot about ways to improve your relationship. But if you've tried these without much success, you're not alone. Many highly reactive couples - pairs that are quick to argue, anger, and blame - need more than just the run-of-the-mill relationship advice to solve their problems in love.
Parenting a Teen Who Has Intense Emotions: DBT Skills to Help Your Teen Navigate Emotional and Behavioral Challenges
by Pat Harvey, ACSW, LCSW-C & Britt H. Rathbone, MSSW, LCSW-C
This much-needed book will give you the tools needed to help your teen regulate his or her emotions. In addition, you'll learn the skills for managing your own reactions, so you can survive these difficult years and help your teen thrive.
Mindfulness & Self-Compassion
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha
by Tara Brach, PhD
In our current times of global crises and spiking collective anxiety, Tara Brach's transformative practice of Radical Acceptance offers a pathway to inner freedom and a more compassionate world. This classic work now features an insightful new introduction, an exclusive bonus chapter, and additional guided meditations.
The Mindfulness Solution for Intense Emotions: Take Control of Borderline Personality Disorder with DBT
by Cedar R. Koons, MSW, LCSW
The Mindfulness Solution for Intense Emotions offers breakthrough, new mindfulness skills and exercises drawn from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to help you move past harmful emotions.
Mindfulness and Psychotherapy
by Thich Nhat Hanh
Mindfulness and Psychotherapy was originally created for those in the helping professions, but has proven profoundly helpful to anyone who wants to understand why we are at war with ourselves and one another—and how to mend our conflicts.
Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
by Kristin Neff, PhD
From leading psychologist Dr. Kristin Neff comes a step-by-step guide explaining how to be more self-compassionate and achieve your dreams in life.