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Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens, Second Edition

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills for Helping You Manage Mood Swings, Control Angry Outbursts, and Get Along with Others
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Take charge of your emotions and your life with this fully revised and updated workbook offering proven dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) skills. Aimed at teens, it teaches how to find emotional balance despite life's frustrations, anger, sadness, and fear. Filled with easy techniques, the book helps readers stay calm and mindful, accept their emotions, use body-based practices to find calm, and identify sources of happiness and fulfilment.
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Ideal for teenagers seeking effective ways to manage strong emotions and improve emotional wellbeing. Also recommended for parents, educators, and mental health professionals supporting adolescents.

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This fully revised and updated second edition offers teens even more strategies for managing difficult feelings, and includes new material on acceptance, overcoming shame, the role of values in emotion regulation, body-based practices for finding calm, and more.

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Take charge of your emotions, take charge of your life! Now fully revised and updated, this workbook offers proven-effective dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) skills to help you find emotional balance and live the life you want.

Let's face it: life gives you plenty of reasons to get angry, sad, scared, and frustrated—and those feelings are okay. But sometimes it can feel like your emotions are taking over, spinning out of control with a mind of their own. To make matters worse, these overwhelming emotions might be interfering with school, causing trouble in your relationships, and preventing you from reaching your goals and enjoying your teen years.

Now a teen self-help classic, Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens has already helped thousands of teens take charge of their emotions using proven-effective dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) skills. This fully revised and updated second edition provides even more strategies for managing difficult feelings, and includes new information on how to accept your emotions, body-based practices for finding calm, and tips to help you identify the things in life that make you feel happy and fulfilled.

This book offers easy techniques to help you:

  • Stay calm and mindful in times of crisis
  • Effectively manage out-of-control emotions
  • Reduce the pain of intense emotions
  • Get along with family and friends

If you're ready to take control of your emotions, be the best version of you, and reach your goals, this workbook has everything you need to get started today.

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Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens is highly praised for offering tangible tools to cope with emotional upheaval, volatile emotions, and difficult relationships. Kathy Christie, a mental health case manager, advocates it as essential for teens and suitable for inclusion in school curriculums. Mitchell E. Beube, MSW, RSW, values the clarity and relevance of the DBT skills and worksheets, recommending it for home, clinical, or personal use.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781684037360

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 October 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: New Harbinger Publications

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly, Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 202.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 401g

Pages: 192

About the Author

Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, is a mental health therapist and renowned dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) expert. She is author of several books, including Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens, and Calming the Emotional Storm, and she presents extensively on this topic in Canada, the US, and abroad. Her books focus on using DBT skills to help people manage their emotions and cultivate lasting well-being. Sheri is also the recipient of the R.O. Jones Award from the Canadian Psychiatric Association.

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