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A groundbreaking workbook to help you develop healthy coping strategies, build a solid support network, and stay on the path to recovery.

If you’ve been in therapy for an eating disorder, such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia, your past treatment may have focused on helping you control your emotions and contain your behaviors. However, research now shows that many people with eating disorders actually suffer from emotional overcontrol. Based on more than twenty years of research, this breakthrough workbook offers skills based in radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RO DBT), a proven-effective, transdiagnostic approach for treating disorders of overcontrol (OC).

With this compassionate workbook, you’ll learn how to move beyond the unhealthy coping strategies that keep you feeling isolated and lonely, find tips for building a solid support network and enriching social connections, and develop your own personalized plan for staying on the path to recovery. You’ll also find assessments to help you determine the root cause of your OC disorder, exercises for increasing social engagement, and skills for improving social flexibility, trust, and intimacy.

Having an eating disorder can make you feel like you’re alone in the world. Even if you’re in recovery, you may have days when feelings of isolation are too much, and you may feel tempted to fall back into unhealthy patterns of eating or restrictive eating. This workbook will help you build your own “treatment tribe,” a group of people that help lift you up and support you as you find your way to a full recovery and a rich, meaningful life.

ISBN-13: 9781684038930

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

Publication Date: 05-01-2022

Pages: 216

Product Dimensions: 8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.48(d)

Karyn D. Hall, PhD, is founder and director of Dialectical Behavior Therapies Center in Houston, TX. She is a radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RO DBT) supervisor, and is a certified Linehan DBT Board of Certification clinician. Hall provides both individual and team supervision in RO DBT and DBT. She specializes in the treatment of individuals with maladaptive overcontrolled coping. Ellen Astrachan-Fletcher, PhD, FAED, CEDS-S, is midwest regional clinical director at Eating Recovery Center and Pathlight Mood and Anxiety Center. She is a lecturer at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, and associate professor of psychiatry at UIC. She has more than thirty years of clinical and teaching experience in the field. She is a nationally recognized expert in the field of eating disorders. She coauthored The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Bulimia, which is used at eating disorders treatment facilities throughout the country. Mima Simic, MD, is a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist, and joint head of the Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders (MCCAED) in London, UK. She was consultant to the adolescent DBT team, and led development of the intensive day treatment program (ITP) at the Maudsley Hospital. Simic is an internationally recognized expert in the field of child and adolescent eating disorders. She is senior RO DBT clinician, senior trainer, and supervisor for the Maudsley family and multi-family therapy for eating disorders. Thomas R. Lynch, PhD, FBPsS, is professor emeritus of clinical psychology at the University of Southampton school of psychology. Previously, he was director of the Duke Cognitive-Behavioral Research and Treatment Program at Duke University from 1998-2007. He relocated to Exeter University in the UK in 2007. Lynch’s primary research interests include understanding and developing novel treatments for mood and personality disorders using a translational line of inquiry that combines basic neurobiobehavioral science with the most recent technological advances in intervention research. He is founder of radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RO DBT). Lynch has received numerous awards and special recognitions from organizations such as the National Institutes of Health-US (NIMH, NIDA), Medical Research Council-UK (MRC-EME), and the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD). His research has been recognized in the Science and Advances Section of the National Institutes of Health Congressional Justification Report; and he is a recipient of the John M. Rhoades Psychotherapy Research Endowment, and a Beck Institute Scholar.

Table of Contents

Foreword v

1 Is This Book for You? 1

2 Self-Assessment 9

3 Values and Valued Goals 21

4 Radical Openness 35

5 How Your Biology Affects You and Your Relationships 47

Worksheet 5.1 Activating Social Safety 69

6 Social Signaling: What's Your Armor and How Do You Take It Off? 71

Worksheet 6.1 Urge Surfing 74

Worksheet 6.2 How Do I Express My Emotions? 76

Handout 6.1 Assertive and Kind (with Flexible Mind PROVEs) 79

Worksheet 6.3 Flexible Mind PROVEs 81

Worksheet 6.4 How Cautious and Rule-Bound Am I? 82

Handout 6.2 Moving Forward with VARIEs 84

Worksheet 6.5 VARIEs 36

Worksheet 6.6 What Is My Style of Relating? 87

Handout 6.3 Flexible Mind Is DEEP 89

Worksheet 6.7 Flexible Mind Is DEEP 90

Worksheet 6.8 Monitoring Social Signaling 91

7 Social Flexibility 93

Handout 7.1 Loosening the Grip of Fixed Mind 96

Handout 7.2 Learning from Fatalistic Mind 100

8 Shame, Guilt, and Embarrassment (Oh Boy!) 105

Handout 8.1 Steps to Deal with Shame 108

9 Social Comparisons, Envy, Bitterness, and Harsh Judgments (Oh My!) 115

Worksheet 9.1 Are You Experiencing Unhelpful Envy? 118

Worksheet 9.2 Actions and Urges from Envy 119

Worksheet 9.3 Going Opposite to Envious Anger 121

Worksheet 9.4 Going Opposite to Unhelpful Shameful Envy 123

Worksheet 9.5 Are You Experiencing Bitterness? 126

Worksheet 9.6 Go Opposite to Bitterness 130

Worksheet 9.7 Increasing Compassion for Others Practice 132

Worksheet 9.8 Coping with Harsh Judgments 135

10 Social Engagement: We Aren't Talking Marriage, Just Connection (Whoops! We Don't Want to Scare You!) 143

Worksheet 10.1 Invisible or Not-So-Invisible Ghosting 145

Worksheet 10.2 Skills for Disguised Demands 151

Handout 10.1 Flexible Mind ROCKs ON 154

Worksheet 10.3 ROCKs ON 156

11 Building Close Personal Bonds Through Communication and Feedback 159

Handout 11.1 Match+1 162

Worksheet 11.1 Working with Different Needs for Intimacy 167

Handout 11.2 Stay Open to Feedback 170

Handout 11.3 Learning from Feedback 172

12 Enhancing Intimacy 175

Handout 12.1 Loving-Kindness Meditation 177

Worksheet 12.1 Loving-Kindness Meditation Practice 180

Worksheet 12.2 Genuine Friends 184

Worksheet 12.3 Friendship Behaviors to Increase 187

13 Not Really a Chapter, Not Really an Ending 197

Acknowledgments 198

References 199