Surviving the Emotional Roller Coaster: DBT Skills to Help Teens Manage Emotions

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Surviving the Emotional Roller Coaster by Sheri van Dijk The teen years are an emotional roller coaster. So, how can you make it through? In this important guide, leading dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and teen expert Sheri Van Dijk offers four core skills to help you manage your emotional ups and downs, build great relationships, and thrive! FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The teen years are an emotional roller coaster. So, how can you make it through? In this important guide, leading dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and teen expert Sheri Van Dijk offers four core skills to help you manage your emotional ups and downs, build great relationships, and thrive! As a teen, youre experiencing intense changes in your life--both physically and mentally. To top it off, youre probably unsure of how to handle your emotions in a positive, constructive way. Surviving the Emotional Roller Coaster offers evidence-based techniques to help you regulate your emotions and find balance in all areas of life-- whether its at home, at school, or with friends and peers. By learning to be more aware of your emotions, youll be able to let difficult feelings pass without reacting to them in destructive ways. You will also learn the four basic DBT skills to help you manage your emotions: core mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. Youll discover how to apply these skills to help deal with a number of negative emotions, such as low self-esteem, anger, anxiety, depression, and more. By changing the way you react to your emotions and to others, youll be able to build better relationships and feel more confident as a result. If youre ready to understand and better manage your feelings, stop acting on impulses, and calm yourself in moments of emotional stress, this book will show you how. Author Biography Sheri van Dijk, MSW, is a mental health therapist and renowned teen expert. She is the author of five books, including Calming the Emotional Storm, Dont Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens, and Relationship Skills 101 for Teens. Her books focus on using dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills to help teens manage their emotions and cultivate lasting well-being. She is also the recipient of the R.O. Jones Award from the Canadian Psychiatric Association. Review "Surviving the Emotional Roller Coaster is a remarkably helpful resource for teenagers and parents, and practitioners working with teenagers. Sheri Van Dijks user-friendly workbook offers valuable knowledge and practical skills to help teenagers gain an understanding and awareness of their emotions and learn to manage difficult emotions, and provides guidance to surviving crises with calm. She has done a wonderful job at providing simple practices to help teenagers effectively deal with challenges in their relationships." --Zainib Abdullah, MSW, RSW, mental health therapist and crisis worker at Southlake Regional Health Centre"Surviving the Emotional Roller Coaster is a practical guide modified to provide relevant information for teenagers coping with managing their emotions in todays unusually demanding world. Practicing and using the techniques described in this book affects the ability to regulate emotions, shape a sense of self, and healthy emotional development. I would venture to say that this book is a must-read for all teenagers and those around them." --Rennet Wong-Gates, MSW, RSW, child, youth, and family therapist"In Surviving the Emotional Roller Coaster, Sheri Van Dijk has again written an engaging and user-friendly book. For teens whose emotions make their life feel as if they are on a roller coaster, this book provides hope as Van Dijk has explained the skills of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) in an understandable and easy-to-follow manner. There are plenty of examples and exercises making this an interactive book. I would definitely recommend this book to clients both young and older." --Marilyn Becker, MSW, RSW, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills therapist in private practice in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada"Sheri Van Dijk has hit it out of the amusement park with this skill-based approach to surviving the emotional roller coaster. She effectively helps her readers to identify their overwhelming emotions and their behavioral challenges while equipping them with practical strategies to successfully manage them. This clear, step-by-step description of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills will indisputably help teens to navigate the twists and turns of their emotional journey. I will definitely recommend this engaging, easy-to-use manual to my clients and their families, and I will keep it close by as a guide in helping my teen clients to traverse their social and emotional challenges." --Francine Mendelowitz, LCSW, psychotherapist and founder of InterACT New York, an interactive approach to tackling teen challenges"Sheri Van Dijk has written an accessible workbook that includes useful exercises and relevant examples to help young people grow their knowledge and skills in managing their painful emotions. I will recommend this book to my adolescent clients and parents who consult me." --Karma Guindon, MSW, PhD (candidate), RSW, RMFT, therapist in private practice, and lecturer at the University of Waterloo"Teen readers receive an excellent and practical introduction to dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) as a method of coping with psychological distress, from everyday strife all the way to major emotional trauma. Writing with clarity, Van Dijk, a therapist and social worker, references situational triggers and lifestyle circumstances that will likely be immediately recognizable to teens. The publisher, well-known for its patient guides aimed at assisting trauma sufferers in building sound coping skills, has presented this guide in a welcoming way, so teens can feel invited to participate in the mastery of their emotions rather than be overwhelmed by analytical details. Brief chapters include exercises that can easily be completed independently, as well as suggestions for age-appropriate goal setting. ... This highly accessible guide belongs in all collections serving teens." --Booklist "This excellent resource is filled with great examples and practice exercises that teens can relate to. Van Dijk emphasizes the importance of learning and practicing skills at ones own pace with the goal of making life changes to reduce suffering associated with escalating emotions." --Francine Brill, MD, FRCP(C), child and adolescent psychiatrist in private practice in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, and consultant to New Path Youth and Family Services"This skill-based book brings together an array of dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT)-based strategies in a well laid out, uniquely easy-to-read fashion. Surviving the Emotional Roller Coaster is a must-read as it conveys hope and encouragement to a population that has typically been seen as a clinical challenge. This resource gives readers a practical treatment plan which will undoubtedly lead them on a road to wellness." --Michael Isaac, MEd, RSW, clinical social worker, and partner at Hofmann & Isaac Individual and Family Counselling in Aurora, Ontario, Canada Review Quote "This skill-based book brings together an array of dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT)-based strategies in a well laid out, uniquely easy-to-read fashion. Promotional "Headline" The teen years are an emotional roller coaster. So, how can you make it through? In this important guide, leading dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and teen expert Sheri Van Dijk offers four core skills to help you manage your emotional ups and downs, build great relationships, and thrive! Details ISBN1626252408 Short Title SURVIVING THE EMOTIONAL ROLLER Pages 224 Series Instant Help Solutions Language English ISBN-10 1626252408 ISBN-13 9781626252400 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2016 Imprint New Harbinger Publications Place of Publication Oakland, CA Country of Publication United States Subtitle DBT Skills to Help Teens Manage Emotions Illustrations illustrations Edited by Peter Scott Birth 1955 Affiliation Reader in Public and Private International Law, University College London Position Reader in Public and Private International Law Qualifications MD AU Release Date 2016-03-31 NZ Release Date 2016-03-31 US Release Date 2016-03-31 UK Release Date 2016-03-31 Audience Age 13-19 Publisher New Harbinger Publications Publication Date 2016-03-31 DEWEY 152.4 Audience Teenage / Young adult Author Sheri van Dijk We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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