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Author Van Dijk, Sheri

Title Relationship skills 101 for teens : your guide to dealing with daily drama, stress, and difficult emotions using DBT / Sheri Van Dijk
Published Oakland, CA : Instant Help, 2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series The Instant Help Solutions Series
Instant help solutions series.
Contents Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Looking at Yourself -- Chapter 2 -- Looking at Your Relationships -- Chapter 3 -- How to Get What You Want (More Often!) -- Chapter 4 -- How Up-Âand-ÂDown Emotions Fuel the Relationship Roller Coaster -- Chapter 5 -- Stop Letting Your Emotions Control You -- Chapter 6 -- Reduce Your Judgments to Improve Your Attitude -- Chapter 7 -- Stop Fighting Reality and Deal with It Instead -- Chapter 8 -- Donâ€?t Let Your Urges Control You -- Chapter 9 -- Improving Your Relationship with Yourself -- Conclusion
Summary "In Relationship Skills 101 for Teens, Sheri Van Dijk-author of Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens-offers powerful tools based in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to help you regulate your emotions so you can build better relationships with your parents, friends, and peers. Do you ever feel like your emotions are out of your control? Is it hard for you to make friends, get a date, or get along with your parents? You aren't alone. For some people, good relationships seem to come easily. But if you are like many others, you may need a little help. This book offers evidence-based strategies you can use to take control of your emotions and reactions in order to respond effectively to peer pressure, bullying, cyberbullying, and gossip, allowing you to navigate the many social issues that make these years so challenging. This book outlines three core skills to help you manage your emotions and create better relationships. First, you'll discover how mindfulness can help you face each life experience with awareness and acceptance. Second, you'll find more effective ways of communicating with others so you can develop healthier, more balanced relationships. Finally, you'll learn powerful skills to regulate your emotions so you don't end up taking things out on the people you care about. With these combined skills, you'll learn how to act in healthier ways so you don't end up pushing people away. Like most teens, you want to make and keep friends. You also want to date! And you'd probably like to have a good relationship with your parents. This book will give you the skills to reach these goals and live a happier, more fulfilling life-well beyond your teen years. Why not get started now?"-- Provided by publisher
"In Relationship Skills 101 for Teens, best-selling author of Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens, Sheri Van Dijk offers teens powerful tools to regulate their emotions and create better relationships--whether it's with parents, friends and peers, or dates. Using skills based in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), teens will learn to take control of their emotions and reactions in order to respond effectively to peer pressure, bullying, and gossip, and navigate the myriad social issues that make these years so challenging"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Emotions -- Juvenile literature
Stress management -- Juvenile literature
Dialectical behavior therapy.
Emotions
Stress management
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Social Issues -- Friendship.
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Social Issues -- Dating & Sex.
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Social Issues -- Emotions & Feelings.
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Family -- Parents.
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- General.
Dialectical behavior therapy
Emotions
Stress management
Genre/Form Juvenile works
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781626250536
1626250537
9781626250543
1626250545
Other Titles Relationship skills one hundred one for teens