Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions : Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Help Your Child Regulate Emotional Outbursts and Aggressive Behaviors
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2.0 • 1 Rating
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
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 have emotion dysregulation, a tendency to react intensely to situations other children take in stride. Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions is an effective guide to de-escalating your child's emotions and helping your child express feelings in productive ways. You'll learn strategies drawn from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), including mindfulness and validation skills, and practice them when your child's emotions spin out of control. This well-researched method for managing emotions can help your child make dramatic emotional and behavioral changes that both of you will be proud of.
Customer Reviews
Outdated and dangerous
Outdated and filled with contradiction. The parts about rewards and punishments, where they suggest rewarding a child for a day without outbursts, are so dangerous. If a child is unable, albeit in a maladjusted way, to express their feelings, they may end up depressing their feelings and internalizing them in much more dangerous ways.
This behavioral approach to a child, like an animal to be trained is so outdated and toxic.
The first few chapters of metaphors re integrating the parts of the brain are patronizing at best.
Two stars for the emphasis on validation. Do yourself a favor and read Gabor Mate instead.