Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions

Klappentext Children who are unable to manage their emotions are oversensitive! reactive! and prone to defiant behaviour and emotional outbursts. Attempts to soothe these children are often met with further emotional and behavioural outbursts. This book helps parents accept! acknowledge! and de-escalate their children's emotions.

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Pat Harvey, ACSW, LCSW-C, has over thirty years of experience working with families, and now coaches parents and family members of youth and adults with emotion dysregulation using a dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) framework. She facilitates trainings and workshops for mental health professionals on DBT concepts, skills, and parent/family interventions throughout the United States and at national conferences. She is coauthor of Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions, Dialectical Behavior Therapy for At-Risk Adolescents, and Hey, I'm Here Too!

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Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions provides dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) strategies and skills to parents of children with explosive emotions. Readers learn to understand and accept their children's emotion dysregulation and learn skills for changing both their own behaviors and those of the child.