Book Review: DBT Therapeutic Activity Ideas for Working with Teens

Teenagers are the greatest enigma. Maturing, yet still young in so many ways, teenagers are in a unique place in life, and when each young person brings with them not only a diagnosis, but a personality, a temperament, dreams, talents, struggles, and histories, the best therapies are designed that take all of this into account, giving room for each teen to be treated individually. In her interactive work, DBT Therapeutic Activity Ideas for Working With Teens, Carol Lozier takes all she has learned about working with teenagers with borderline personality disorder, depression, anxiety, and other emotional sensitivities and created activities that address the teen’s personal needs while adapting to the experiences and understandings unique to this particular age group. Targeted primarily for therapists who would actually be working with teenagers through DBT therapy, this workbook is a melding of instruction, explanation, and workbook pages for the teens themselves. Much like a teacher’s manual of step-by-step instructions mixed with the teachable content, a reader/therapist is introduced to the concepts presented and to the interactive supplements intended to be given to the teens in therapy. This simplified walk-through is accessible, simplified, and easily applicable. Lozier begins this manual with an explanation of DBT and a division into four basic modules, by which the rest of the content is categorized. Each module is a mixture of background information, reflecting th...
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