Surviving the Emotional Roller Coaster

DBT Skills to Help Teens Manage Emotions

By: Sheri Van Dijk MSW

Narrated by: Suzie Althens

As a teen, you're experiencing intense changes in your life - both physically and mentally. To top it off, you're probably unsure of how to handle your emotions in a positive, constructive way.

Surviving the Emotional Roller Coaster offers evidence-based techniques to help you regulate your emotions and find balance in all areas of life - whether it's at home, at school, or with friends and peers. By learning to be more aware of your emotions, you'll be able to let difficult feelings pass without reacting to them in destructive ways.

You will also learn the four basic DBT skills to help you manage your emotions: core mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. You'll discover how to apply these skills to help deal with a number of negative emotions, such as low self-esteem, anger, anxiety, depression, and more. By changing the way you react to your emotions and to others, you'll be able to build better relationships and feel more confident as a result.

If you're ready to understand and better manage your feelings, stop acting on impulses, and calm yourself in moments of emotional stress, this book will show you how.

©2016 Sheri Van Dijk (P)2020 Tantor

Let down because Calming the Emotional Storm is so good.

Now I’m not certain if Calming the Emotional Storm was so engaging because of the author or the narrator. I was so glad to find a teen DBT book by the same author and assumed this would be better to share with my teen, but I couldn’t get past the first couple chapters. My daughter wouldn’t last as long with the delivery style of this narrator.