Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Help Your Child Regulate Emotional Outbursts and Aggressive Behaviors

By: Jeanine A. Penzo LICSW, Pat Harvey LCSW-C

Narrated by: Pam Ward

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 zero 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.

©2009 Pat Harvey and Jeanine A. Penzo (P)2015 Tantor

Hope and tools are just what we needed

After my adult daughter was diagnosed with BPD and although I am not one to take ownership of a ‘diagnosis’, knowing what we were dealing with and subsequent therapy are changing her life. Her son, at 4 years old is showing signs of the same issues. I found hope and many tools to help him them both through this journey. We are trying to prevent some of the heartache she experienced as a child and I believe that we have found just what we needed in this book. This resource will be referred to and listened to over and over in our lives

I really liked it and will recommend!

I’m a register mental health counselor intern in Florida working with children in foster care system. This is incredible informative and so helpful for parents or any caregiver involved in raising children.

Great for bio and adoptive parents

Makes you at least understand it’s not abnormal to have a child with intense emotions.

Good information, annoying voice.

The information was very informative. There are a lot of helpful techniques and points to remember. My only complaint is the grating voice. Her voice is “sharp” and it makes it sound like she is talking down to the listener.

A must read for a Parent of an Emotional Child.

I found this really helpful in how I think about my approaches when dealing with my Highly Emotional daughter. It will definitely be a book I come back to again and again.

Outstanding

Loved this book, very concise, straight to the point and full of helpful tips. Definitely a most read for parents.

This is a very factual, instructional book with a

This is a very factual instructional book with a lot of helpful information.
It is very consistent and provides a program with clear steps that are explained and based off of science and not opinion.
Does not have unnecessary information trying to convince and encourage you. That may feel "dry" to some people, to me it is a very good thing, in some books the "bla bla bla" part takes up to 50 percent of the book and the instructions can fit on 2 pages. This is not one of those.

Recommend!

great parenting resource

this book is an amazing parenting resource for parents of highly sensitive children. I gound it very helpful

take notes.

book pieces together dbt and parenting in a very accessible way. has good instruction for parents and providers.

worth a listen

While this book offers comfort to someone who might be feeling flooded with information or "stuck" feel overwhelmed at home.. I would recommend something more advanced for people who are already aware of their family dynamic and personal responsibilities. "what is the next step?" so to speak