Surviving The Emotional Roller Coaster: Dbt Skills To Help Teens Manage Emotions

Description

The teen years are an emotional roller coaster. So, how can you make it through? In this important guide, leading dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and teen expert Sheri Van Dijk offers four core skills to help you manage your emotional ups and downs, build great relationships, and thrive! As a teen, you're experiencing intense changes in your lifeboth 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."

Author description

Sheri van Dijk, MSW, is a mental health therapist and renowned teen expert. She is the author of five books, including "Calming the Emotional Storm, Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens, "and "Relationship Skills" "101 for Teens." Her books focus on using dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills to help teens manage their emotions and cultivate lasting well-being. She is also the recipient of the R.O. Jones Award from the Canadian Psychiatric Association.