- ISBN13: 9781572246492
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product 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.
#1 by C. Ramey on February 8, 2010 - 12:36 am
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This book is packed with understanding, and offers many new strategies for parents to cope with situations that sometimes seem hopeless. The authors have adapted the fundamental principles of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for use by parents on themselves. They also have added lots of their own ideas and combined clinical (professional) and personal (parental) insights. The books includes lots of examples about somewhat younger children, but the exercises and the practical strategies work amazingly well for parents who have mid- to late teens or even young adult children with emotional dysregulation. Above all, if one opens up and considers that things can get better — much better — through a willigness to change ourselves (as parents) and how we respond to truly difficult parenting challenges, it can and does happen. The basic starting points are reassuring — we are doing the best that we can and so is our child; and at the same, we can do things in new ways that more efefctive! This book stays by our bedside — truly — and we opened it again this morning and found strength and encouragement therein.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Charlie on February 8, 2010 - 1:25 am
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This easy to read book provides key techniques for dealing with difficult interpersonal situations. These are life skills, not just for dealing with a child with intense emotions.
“Parenting a Child with Intense Emotions” provides clear direction and actionable skills that you can use immediately to make you more effective. It teaches you how to stay calm and reach an effective solution while minimizing conflict.
This is a good read!
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by C. Lagace on February 8, 2010 - 1:34 am
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In this very readable book, Harvey and Penzo give many practical suggestions for parents who are dealing with a child who has frequent intense emotional outbursts. They point out that a child’s angry, explosive behaviors are the way he has learned to manage his feelings, and that he needs to be taught new skills. Expecting a child to know how to behave in all situations is unrealistic. He must be taught until he can use skills in all situations.
Just as the child needs new skills, this book teaches new skills to parents to help them more effectively help a child manage his emotions. The goal of the book is to help parents think and respond “wisely”, incorporating both feelings and logic, when responding to the child’s behavior.
The authors recommend that parents remind themselves that their child “is doing the best he can,” and that they balance “acceptance of your child in the moment with expecting and helping him to do things better in the future.” At the same time, they remind parents that “you are doing the best you can and that you can do better.”
As a parent of a child with intense emotions, and an elementary teacher, I highly recommend this book for parents, families, educators, and other professionals. The practical strategies are useful for our work with all children to make them (and us) happier and more effective.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by Julie S. on February 8, 2010 - 4:17 am
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I am a mom of a 10 year old with mood disorder NOS. This book has helped me regain control in my life. Each chapter will help you understand your child and teach you to change the way you respond to emotional situations. Validating your child, using wise mind, taking time for yourself are ways DBT can make a difference. Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions is a must read. It will reduce stress and change your life-it has changed mine!
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Terry J. Landon on February 8, 2010 - 6:51 am
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I read as many books on this topic as I can. This book will change the way that your family experiences and copes with intense emotions.
I have had the opportunity to use the book in the the Parent Support Groups I facilitate (Parenting Children with Emotion Regulation Difficulties, … with Asperger Syndrome, … with Non-Verbal Learning Disorder, … with Bipolar Disorder. Each parent has expressed his or her comfort with the book’s blend of theory and example and have learned about their own thoughts and feelings through completing the activities. In addition, I have sent copies to friends that have struggled to understand and handle their children’s emotional outbursts effectively. I cannot recemmend a book on this toipic any more highly, as a professional or a parent.
Rating: 5 / 5
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