Book Review: Borderline Personality Disorder: Dialectical Behavior Therapy in Clinical Practice: Applications across Disorders and Settings

Abstract

Reviews the book, Dialectical behavior therapy in clinical practice: Applications across disorders and settings edited by Linda A. Dimeff and Kelly Koerner (see record [rid]2007-14074-000[/rid]). This book is an edited volume that purposes to “save you grief” if you are trying to “adopt or adapt” dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to your particular setting. The stated purposes are: to help readers avoid common pitfalls as they implement DBT in their setting, and provide a resource list of clinicians and program directors who have faced these issues in their own services. Following a concise overview of DBT, this book describes how the therapy is being used in outpatient, inpatient, forensic, and community contexts, with adults, adolescents, and couples and families. However, it is disappointing that the contributed chapters were inconsistent in meeting the objective of providing practical input to readers. This edited book is targeted at professionals wishing to implement DBT in their setting. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)