Are you a therapist looking for a user-friendly DBT-C workbook? DBT Therapeutic Activity Ideas for Kids and Caregivers has 70 DBT-C reproducible handouts and worksheets for kids (6 -12yo) and families that will engage the child, dramatically improve your knowledge and use of DBT-C skills, allowing you to feel capable and confident in the therapy room.

Carol Lozier's book is a solution to the struggles therapists and families face when helping a child with emotional and behavioral challenges such as, anxiety, depression, aggressiveness, isolation, tantrums, and refusal to comply with adults. This book is one of the first to present each DBT-C skill with an easy to understand explanation, fun and engaging illustrations, discussion questions, and tips and suggestions for the therapist to use in the therapy room.

Whether you are a newly graduated therapist, a therapist new to DBT-C or seasoned in your knowledge and experience DBT Therapeutic Activity Ideas for Kids and Caregivers will forever transform the way you work with children and families, allowing you to feel capable and confident in the therapy room.

The book includes a section for parenting skills, giving the parent easy to use behavior management and validation skills with their child, improving their self-assurance in managing and empathizing with their child's highly sensitive emotions and behavior.

This fun and engaging activity book helps to teach teens to manage emotions and develop relationships by tracking their progress using Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) techniques. DBT is specifically designed for emotionally sensitive young people, especially those with borderline personality disorder, and the activities in this book will help regulate strong emotional responses which can lead to impulsivity, unstable relationships, low self-image and reactive emotions.

It is a concise and easy-to-read resource, accompanied by vignettes and activity sheets. It presents an overview of the four modules of DBT: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. These skills used in these modules can be logged and monitored through the tick lists and diary cards provided. These practical tools and ideas are reproducible, and will be invaluable for anyone working with teens.