Parenting a Teen Who Has Intense Emotions: DBT Skills to Help Your Teen Navigate Emotional and Behavioral Challenges

ISBN: 1626251886

Author: Harvey, Pat

Condition: New

Parenting a teen with intense emotions can be extremely difficult. This much-needed book will give you the tools needed to help your teen regulate his or her emotions. In addition, youll learn the skills for managing your own reactions so you can survive these difficult years and help your teen thrive.The teen years can be daunting for any parent. But if you are the parent of a teen who lashes out or engages in troubling behavior, you may be unsure of how to respond to your child in a compassionate, constructive way. In this important book, two renowned experts in teen mental health offer you evidence-based skills for dealing with your teens out-of-control emotions using proven-effective dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT).Helping your teen to effectively deal with their feelings now can have a lasting, positive impact on their future. After all, honing skills for emotion regulation will act as a foundation for your teens overall mental health. This book will help your teen gain awareness of their emotions, and offers tools to help them choose how to respond to these emotions in effective ways.If youre at your wits end and are looking to end the drama while keeping yourself sane in the process, this book will be your guide. It is a must-read for any parent!