Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Help Your Child Regulate Emotional Outbursts and Aggressive Behaviors
Temper tantrums in the supermarket. Tears that seem to come out of nowhere. Battles over homework that are more like wars. When your child has problems regulating his or her emotions, there's no hiding it. Children with intense emotions go from 0 to 100 in seconds and are prone to frequent emotional and behavioral outbursts that leave parents feeling bewildered and helpless.\ Other parents may have told you that it's just a phase or that your child needs discipline. In reality, your child may...
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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.
Acknowledgments viiIntroduction 1Part 1 You, Your Child, and Emotional IntensityChapter 1 Emotional Intensity and Your Child's Feelings 9Chapter 2 Effective Parenting 31Part 2 Responding to Your Child's FeelingsChapter 3 Understanding What Your Child Is Telling You 63Chapter 4 Responding When Your Child Is Overwhelmed by Emotions 85Chapter 5 Teaching Your Child to Manage Feelings 99Part 3 Responding to Your Child's BehaviorsChapter 6 Behavioral Principles and Intense Behaviors 113Chapter 7 Maintaining Expectations, Limits, and Routines 135Chapter 8 Decreasing Tantrums, Aggression, and Other Problem Behaviors 145Chapter 9 School-Related Difficulties 157Part 4 Helping Your Whole Family: Minimizing Collateral DamageChapter 10 The Impact of Intense Emotions on the Entire Family 173Chapter 11 Caring for Yourself and Living Your Life 187Appendix: Resources for Parents 201References 205
