Parenting a Teen Who Has Intense Emotions

DBT Skills to Help Your Teen Navigate Emotional and Behavioral Challenges

By: Pat Harvey ACSW LCSW-C, Britt H. Rathbone MSSW LCSW-C

Narrated by: Rachel Perry

This much-needed book will give you the tools needed to help your teen regulate his or her emotions. In addition, you'll 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 teen's 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 teen's 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 you're at your wit's end and are looking to end the drama while keeping yourself sane in the process, this book will be your guide.

©2015 Pat Harvey and Britt H. Rathbone (P)2021 Tantor

So helpful!

Audio version narrator is SO calming. Thank you!! This is exactly what I needed. Great support for things we can’t talk openly about with friends or even family. My teen is only part of the conversation. This has helped me understand him better and how to help him.

Great, applicable, and informative

Great, applicable, and informative book. Very easy to understand and great reasoning on how to teens.

Exactly the book I needed

This was so very helpful to help me learn how to help my daughter and try to keep her safe while still trying to keep some boundaries.

This book has been a great help

We’ve have and continue to experience this, I wish I had read this book years ago. It is very insightful and Thai book is spot on for our family.

Fundamental

Un libro útil y fundamental para entender y trabajar con este tipo de adolescentes. Gracias.