DBT Workbook for Adult ADHD and Anxiety

A Practical Guide With Dialectical Behavior Techniques and Coping Skills to Overcome a Scattered Brain, Improve Focus, and Achieve Optimal Mental Performance

By: Janet Willow

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Janet Willow’s new book, DBT Workbook for Adult ADHD and Anxiety, is an essential guide to understanding and overcoming the effects of adult ADHD and anxiety. Dr. Willow leverages her decades of expertise in clinical psychology to create an accessible and comprehensive guide that provides readers with a strong understanding of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) as a strategy for addressing these conditions.

The book focuses on helping readers develop tools and skills that will help them manage their symptoms associated with ADHD and anxiety — from relaxation techniques to tracking daily activities that lead to improved mental health. With each chapter, Dr. Willow helps readers identify maladaptive behaviors, uncover core beliefs that shape their self-image, and build positive coping strategies to promote sustained recovery.

Throughout the book, Dr. Willow draws upon her vast experience in treating adults with ADHD and anxiety conditions to provide readers with insight into common struggles they may experience while striving towards greater mental wellbeing. She offers practical guidance on how mindfulness techniques can be applied in everyday life — from organizing chaotic schedules to engaging in intentional conversations with family members or friends. By utilizing evidence-based practices such as DBT together with case studies of successful treatment approaches, this comprehensive DBT resource offers a revolutionary approach for tackling the challenges associated with adult ADHD and anxiety.

For those seeking practical advice about managing their adult ADHD or anxiety symptoms, Dr. Janet Willow's DBT Workbook for Adult ADHD and Anxiety is an invaluable tool for achieving greater psychological resilience and lasting recovery from these difficult mental health conditions.

Monotonous AI Makes it hard

Likely good information but the monotonous cadence eventually becomes hard to tolerate. Reference type books require a human touch. Otherwise it could be an article that you hit “read aloud” on. Not the authors fault. I imagine cost cutting from audible/amazon.

AI reading of the book is awful

The AI voice for this is awful. It has an accent. Why? It’s also super squeaky. Basic adhd book but the narration is not good

not a workbook

some customers mention AI voice. I have heard robotic AI voices before (such as one of Steven porge's book had an extremely robotic AI voice) and I agree that that is a miserable listening experience when it sounds that way. however, I'm not sure if I'm just listening to a different audiobook version than other listeners, but the voice I hear is not robotic and has prosody. It doesn't have the natural variation of a real human but isn't monotone. I think the voice is ok, actually sounds like a real person if you listen to just a few seconds. but if you listen for a long time, that's where the lack of variation becomes apparent.

but my big problem with this book is it's not a workbook at all. so far it doesn't have any how-to at all. it reads like some kind of Mayo clinic article on the benefits people can expect by using DBT to treat ADHD. it's what can happen, but no more. and a chapter which just summarizes each book written by Cal Newport.

I thought many things are just...summarized, simplified references, that become dry. even though the virtual voice AI narrator sounds agnostically equally excited, like some kind of cheerful workout leader, regardless of content.

another reviewer questioned whether the book was written by AI. due to the Mayo clinic feeling of the book, I second that question. It had that helping.

I am probably more familiar with DBT than most of the general population, but much less familiar than DBT therapists. Maybe this book was intended for people who had never heard of it at all. From the title, I did not expect this book to be both, not a workbook and overly general. Maybe other readers want this; if so they may love this book.

But it is a summary, but is not a workbook as the title claims. and if you want more depth, you'll directly read from material the book is summarizing.

*update: A Mayo clinic article is cited as the first source in references, and many other general web articles are cited in sources as well

Written by AI?

Am I the only one who thinks that this book was written using AI? I am not able to confirm this but it sounds like it.

Dbt new to me

Thank you for the clear explanations and practical exercises. Looking forward to applying in my life.