The Dbt Flip Chart: A Psychoeducational Tool to Help Clients Manage Distress, Regulate Emotions, Improve Relationships, and Live Mindfully

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills create better lives, teaching people to live in the moment with healthy ways to manage stress, regulate emotions, and improve relationships. Yet engaging clients in structured skills training that flows can be a challenge.

The DBT Flip Chart answers that challenge with a dynamic and interactive format filled with tools and exercises that bring DBT skills to life in your office. This invaluable resource features diagrams and straightforward explanations that effectively teach:

• Mindfulness
• Distress tolerance
• Emotion regulation
• Interpersonal effectiveness
• Dialectics
• Diary card use
• Chain analysis

The DBT Flip Chart offers:

• A two-sided design that stands upright for easy visibility
• Full-color diagrams and exercises on the client-facing pages with detailed explanations on the therapist-facing pages
• The ability to customize learning with dry-erase client pages
• A user-friendly format, perfect for one-on-one or small group sessions
• A portable, invaluable resource for the therapist on the go

Both new and seasoned DBT therapists will enjoy more memorable and effective skills training sessions with this unique tool that can be used over and over again.

Lane Pederson, PsyD, LP, C-DBT, has trained over 30,000 professionals in DBT in the United States, Australia, South Africa, England, Canada, Mexico, and the Middle East through his company, Lane Pederson and Associates, LLC. Notable clients have included Walter Reed National Military Hospital, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the US Navy, the Canadian Department of Defense, the Ontario Psychological Association, the Omid Foundation, and Psychotherapy Networker. He has provided training for community mental health agencies, chemical dependency treatment centers, hospital and residential care settings, and therapists in forensic settings.

Dr. Pederson's DBT publications include the award-winning The Expanded Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training Manual, Second Edition (PESI, 2017); Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A Contemporary Guide for Practitioners (Wiley, 2015); and Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training in Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment Settings (PESI, 2013). He also authored the best-selling DBT Deck for Clients and Therapists and the DBT Skills-Building Card Deck for Clients and Therapists.

A real-world practitioner, Dr. Pederson co-owns Mental Health Systems, Inc. (MHS), one of the largest DBT-specialized practices in the United States with five clinic locations in Minnesota. At MHS, Dr. Pederson has developed DBT programs for adolescents, adults, people with dual disorders, and people with developmental disabilities. He has served as clinical and training directors, has directed practice-based clinical outcomes, and has overseen the care of thousands of clients.

Dr. Pederson also co-owns Acacia Therapy and Health Training in South Africa, serves on the advisory board for the doctoral counseling program at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, and is a peer reviewer for Forensic Scholars Today.