Real Skills for Real Life
A DBT Guide to Navigating Stress, Emotions, and Relationships
Shireen L. Rizvi and Jesse Finkelstein
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Hardcover
pre-orderNovember 12, 2025
ISBN 9781462558773
Price: $38.00 160 Pages
Size: 6" x 9"
Paperback
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ISBN 9781462555574
Price: $24.95160 Pages
Size: 6" x 9"
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Introduction
Pathways through Problems
The Skills
- Mindfulness Skills: An Overview
- Wise Mind
- Observe and Describe
- Participate
- Nonjudgmentally
- One-Mindfully
- Effectively
- Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills: An Overview
- Interpersonal Priorities
- DEAR MAN
- GIVE
- FAST
- Validation
- Emotion Regulation Skills: An Overview
- Model for Describing Emotions
- PLEASE
- ABC
- Check the Facts
- Opposite Action
- Problem Solving
- Mindfulness of Current Emotions
- Distress Tolerance Skills: An Overview
- TIP
- Distract
- IMPROVE
- Self-Soothe
- Pros/Cons
- Radical Acceptance
- Willingness
- Behavior Assessment: An Overview
- Chain Analysis
Index