The 12-Week DBT Workbook: Practical Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Regain Emotional Stability

Book title and author: The 12-Week DBT Plan: Skills and Exercises to Improve Your Feelings, Habits, and Relationships by Valerie Dunn McBee reviewed 2-9-25. Why I picked this book up: I like DBT and it is a 12 week skills training for feelings, habits and relationships to use with high level CA prisoners. Thoughts: Discover the power of DBT with this 12-week workbookGetting started with dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) can feel like a lot, but this friendly guide breaks it down into simple steps over a clear, 12-week schedule that helps you build the skills to balance your emotions and achieve your goals! Each week, you’ll practice healthier habits that make it easier to manage intense emotions, reduce stress, build happier relationships, and create lasting change in your life. What is DBT?–Get an overview of DBT with simple terms and relatable examples to help you understand the 4 key mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.Hands-on exercises–Dive into an easy-to-follow program of writing prompts, questions, routines, and more that make it easy to put DBT into practice every day. Guidance from a therapist–Author Valerie Dunn McBee is offers compassionate support through her years of clinical experience. Build stronger self-worth and emotional intelligence with The 12-Week DBT Plan. Why I finished this read: I have been interested in using DBT with level 4, max custody inmates in CA and found this book simple and educational. I’m giving this a 4 of 5 Stars rating: I liked it because we spent three weeks in mindfulness, three in distress tolerance, three in emotion regulation and the final three in interpersonal effectiveness. Together, these modules can increase ability to stay present in the moment; get through a crisis without making it worse; fully experience, regulate, and respond rather than react to your emotions; and be more effective at getting what you want and need in relationships. I can refer back to specific skills and exercises until I am better at doing them

DBT and its modules saved my life. Thank you Val, Kim, Chris, Cameron, et al at the Athens DBT Center!

I use this book with my clients that don't need to go to the complete DBT program. It's an amazing book that includes only the most necessary skills to improve you client's life. I did the Mindfulness module in just a month to increase awareness and concentration in a depressed patient, and it work wonders.

So ready to start this

This is a good and practical guide for mindfulness and practicing dbt. However I feel that the book has a little too much fluff/reiteration or overexplanation of some things

Our DBT group has been utilizing this book for about 8 months and has found it super helpful. As a therapist I recommend it.

Love this book

As a therapist, I love this book. It does a great job of explaining DBT in understandable and relateable terms. I've used several different DBT workbooks with clients and this is my favorite

Clearly and easily explained lifeskills for everyone.Should be thought to everyone at school!Chapters are well laid out and easy to refer back to.