DBT Therapeutic Activity Ideas for Kids and Caregivers

70 DBT-C reproducible handouts and worksheets for kids (6 -12yo) and families that will effectively engage your client, dramatically improve your knowledge and use of DBT-C skills, allowing you to feel capable, confident, and authentic in the therapy room.

Carol Lozier's book is an effective solution to the struggles therapists, mental health workers, and families face when helping a child with emotional and behavioral challenges such as, anxiety, depression, aggressiveness, isolation, tantrums, and refusal to comply with teachers, parents, and other 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, a parent or caregiver of a child with difficulties, DBT Therapeutic Activity Ideas for Kids and Caregivers will forever transform the way you work with children and families, allowing you to feel capable, confident, and authentic 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.

70 DBT-C reproducible worksheets for kids and families that will effectively engage your client, dramatically improve your use of DBT-C skills, allowing you to feel capable, confident, and authentic in the therapy room.

Carol Lozier MSW LCSW is a psychotherapist and author. She is a clinical social worker in private practice in Louisville, Kentucky, and has spent thirty years counseling children, teens and adults in the issues of trauma, and adoption and foster care. She is intensively trained in DBT by Behavior Tech. Ms. Lozier has published four books, and contributed articles to two parenting books. Ms. Lozier's most recent book, DBT Therapeutic Activity Ideas for Working with Teens, was published in February 2018. Ms. Lozier's books and other free DBT handouts can be found on her website at www.carollozierlcsw.com

"I have found DBT Therapeutic Activity Ideas for Kids and Caregivers to be an invaluable guide to helping children along this journey. Carol Lozier's activities make it fun and exciting for children to practice what they learned in session. It is clear that Carol Lozier, MSW LCSW knows DBT and understands children. This guide makes it super easy for therapists to explain, plan, and practice activities with children and their family members. Carol Lozier has a unique way of simplifying complex psychological ideas into a single quote, short directions and images or anecdotes that children can really relate to. I would highly recommend this book to any caregiver struggling to understand or interact with their elementary-school aged child and look forward to using these DBT activities in child therapy for many years to come.

--Dr. Debora Jason, PhD, co-founder and Clinical Director of Trauma Therapy CA, DBT Foundational Trained therapist by Behavior Tech, and member of a fully compliant and comprehensive DBT team.