Parenting a child who has intense emotions : dialectical behavior therapy skills to help your child regulate emotional outbursts & aggressive behaviors
by Harvey, Pat.
Summary
Discusses handling children with intense emotions, including managing emotional outbursts both at home and in public, promoting mindfulness, and teaching correct behavioral principles to children. Full description
- Emotional intensity and your child's feelings
- Effective parenting
- Understanding what your child is telling you
- Responding when your child is overwhelmed by emotions
- Teaching your child to manage feelings
- Behavioral principles and intense behaviors
- Maintaining expectations, limits, and routines
- Decreasing tantrums, aggression, and other problem behaviors
- School-related diffculties
- The impact of intense emotions on the entire family
- Caring for yourself and living your life.