Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens by Sheri Van Dijk

Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens by Sheri Van Dijk

Let's face it: life gives you plenty of reasons to get angry, sad, scared, and frustrated&mdashand those feelings are okay. But sometimes it can feel like your emotions are taking over, spinning out of control with a mind of their own. To make matters worse, these overwhelming emotions might be interfering with school, causing trouble in your relationships, and preventing you from living a happier life.

Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens is a workbook that can help. In this book, you'll find new ways of managing your feelings so that you'll be ready to handle anything life sends your way. Based in dialectical behavior therapy, a type of therapy designed to help people who have a hard time handling their intense emotions, this workbook helps you learn the skills you need to ride the ups and downs of life with grace and confidence.

This book offers easy techniques to help you: Stay calm and mindful in difficult situations, Effectively manage out-of-control emotions, Reduce the pain of intense emotions and Get along with family and friends

Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, is a psychotherapist who works in private practice as well as at the Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. She is the coauthor of The Bipolar Workbook for Youth and the author of The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Bipolar Disorder, Don't Let Your Emotions Rule Your Life for Adolescents, Calming the Emotional Storm, and DBT Made Easy. She was awarded the R.O. in September 2010. For her study on employing dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) techniques to treat bipolar disorder, she received the Jones Prize from the Canadian Psychiatric Association. Sheri gives talks all over the world about how to use DBT to manage mental health issues.