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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Dijk, Sheri.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions in adolescence--Juvenile literature.

Emotions in adolescence.

Adolescent psychology--Juvenile literature.

Adolescent psychology.

Dialectical behavior therapy--Juvenile literature.

Dialectical behavior therapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Other Title:

Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens

Place of Publication:

Oakland : New Harbinger Publications, 2021.

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

Chapter One: Mindfulness: Learning Self-Awareness

1. How Aware Are You of Your Thoughts?

2. How Unmindful Thoughts Can Trigger Painful Emotions

3. Mindfulness Breathing

4. Your Bucket of Emotions

5. How Do Your Emotions Feel?

6. Mindfulness to Physical Sensations

7. What Are Your Values?

Chapter Two: What You Need to Know About Emotions

8. Put a Name on It

9. What's This Emotion Telling You?

10. Thought, Emotion, or Behavior?

11. Sorting Out Your Thoughts, Emotions, and Behaviors

12. Observing Your Thoughts and Emotions

Chapter Three: Taking Control of Out-of-Control Emotions

13. Reasoning, Emotional, or Wise Self?

14. Your Typical Way of Thinking

15. Lifestyle Changes You Can Make to Decrease Emotions

16. How to Be More Effective

17. Acting Opposite to Urges

Chapter Four: Reducing Your Painful Emotions

18. Judgments Vs Nonjudgments

19. Adding Fuel to the Fire

20. Turning a Judgment into a Nonjudgment

21. Changing Your Self-Judgments

22. Do You Validate or Invalidate Yourself?

23. What Messages Have You Received About Emotions?

24. Validating Yourself

25. What Does Fighting Reality Do for You?

26. How Reality Acceptance Helps

27. Loving-Kindness Meditation

Chapter Five: Surviving a Crisis Without

28. Surviving a Crisis Without

28. Creating a Crisis Plan

29. Distracting Yourself

30. How Do You Cope?

31. Soothing Yourself

Chapter Six: Improving Your Mood

32. Things You Enjoy

33. What Can You Do to Build Mastery?

34. Setting Goals for Yourself

35. Focusing on the Positive

36. Being Mindful to Your Emotions

Chapter Seven: Improving Your Relationships

37. Thinking About Your Current Relationships

38. Increasing the Relationships in Your Life

39. What's Your Communication Style?.

40. Reflecting on Your Assertiveness Skills

41. Assertiveness Practice

Chapter Eight: Putting It All Together

42. Self-Assessment

43. Your Experience of Willfulness and Willingness

Answers

Additional Reading

References

About the Author.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781684037346

1684037344

OCLC:

1263027201