Don't let your emotions run your life for teens : dialectical behavior therapy skills for helping you manage mood swings, control angry outbursts, and get along with others

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Title:

Don't let your emotions run your life for teens : dialectical behavior therapy skills for helping you manage mood swings, control angry outbursts, and get along with others

Author:

Van Dijk, Sheri, author.

Series:

Instant help book for teens.

Summary:

"Now a teen self-help classic, Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens has already helped more than 150,000 teen readers take charge of their emotions using proven-effective dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills. 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Audience:

Ages 14-18 New Harbinger Publications.

General Note:

Revised edition of the author's Don't let your emotions run your life for teens, c2011.

Edition:

Second edition.

Physical Description:

174 pages : illustrations : 26 cm

Genre:

Self-help publications.

Subject Term:

Emotions in adolescence.

Adolescent psychology.

Dialectical behavior therapy.

Publisher:

Instant Help Books, an imprint of New Harbinger Publications,

Publication Date:

2021

ISBN:

9781684037360

Publication Information:

Oakland : Instant Help Books, an imprint of New Harbinger Publications, 2021.

Call Number:

YA 155.5 VANDIJK

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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 behavior 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 behavior 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.

Author Notes

Sheri Van Dijk, MSW , is a psychotherapist 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. Van Dijk is recipient of the R.O. Jones Award from the Canadian Psychiatric Association.

Introduction	p. 1
Chapter 1 Mindfulness: Learning Self-Awareness	p. 7
Activity 1 How Aware Are You of Your Thoughts?	p. 11
Activity 2 How Unmindful Thoughts Can Trigger Painful Emotions	p. 12
Activity 3 Mindfulness Breathing	p. 13
Activity 4 Your Bucket of Emotions	p. 18
Activity 5 How Do Your Emotions Feel?	p. 20
Activity 6 Mindfulness to Physical Sensations	p. 22
Activity 7 What Are Your Values?	p. 25
Chapter 2 What You Need to Know About Emotions	p. 29
Activity 8 Put a Name on It	p. 30
Activity 9 What's This Emotion Telling You?	p. 41
Activity 10 Thought, Emotion, or Behavior?	p. 47
Activity 11 Sorting Out Your Thoughts, Emotions, and Behaviors	p. 48
Activity 12 Observing Your Thoughts and Emotions	p. 50
Chapter 3 Taking Control of Gut-of-Control Emotions	p. 53
Activity 13 Reasoning, Emotional, or Wise Self?	p. 57
Activity 14 Your Typical Way of Thinking	p. 58
Activity 15 Lifestyle Changes You Can Make to Decrease Emotions	p. 64
Activity 16 How to Be More Effective	p. 69
Activity 17 Acting Opposite to Urges	p. 76
Chapter 4 Reducing Your Painful Emotions	p. 79
Activity 18 Judgments vs. Nonjudgments	p. 81
Activity 19 Adding Fuel to the Fire	p. 84
Activity 20 Turning a Judgment Into a Nonjudgment	p. 87
Activity 21 Changing Your Self-Judgments	p. 90
Activity 22 Do You Validate or Invalidate Yourself?	p. 92
Activity 23 What Messages Have You Received About Emotions?	p. 94
Activity 24 Validating Yourself	p. 96
Activity 25 What Does Fighting Reality Do for You?	p. 98
Activity 26 How Reality Acceptance Helps	p. 101
Activity 27 Loving-Kindness Meditation	p. 104
Chapter 5 Surviving a Crisis Without Making It Worse	p. 107
Activity 28 How Do You Cope?	p. 108
Activity 29 Distracting Yourself	p. 114
Activity 30 Soothing Yourself	p. 116
Activity 31 Creating a Crisis Plan	p. 119
Chapter 6 Improving Your Mood	p. 123
Activity 32 Things You Enjoy	p. 124
Activity 33 What Can You Do to Build Mastery?	p. 128
Activity 34 Setting Goals for Yourself	p. 130
Activity 35 Focusing on the Positive	p. 134
Activity 36 Being Mindful to Your Emotions	p. 137
Chapter 7 Improving Your Relationships	p. 139
Activity 37 Thinking About Your Current Relationships	p. 141
Activity 38 Increasing the Relationships in Your Life	p. 145
Activity 39 What's Your Communication Style?	p. 151
Activity 40 Reflecting on Your Assertiveness Skills	p. 157
Activity 41 Assertiveness Practice	p. 160
Chapter 8 Putting It All Together	p. 163
Activity 42 Self-Assessment	p. 164
Activity 43 Your Experience of Willfulness and Willingness	p. 169
Answers	p. 171
Additional Reading	p. 173
References	p. 175

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