Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills for Helping You Manage Mood Swings, Control Angry Outbursts, and

“Sheri Van Dijk has provided a delightful, must-read guide packed with important information for practitioners working with teens. Throughout, one can find practical, concrete, step-by step instructions that demystify the teenage emotional experience and offer practical tools. The numerous real-life vignettes validate the human experience and illustrate how to implement interventions to reduce painful emotions, which will resonate with clients and clinicians alike.”
—Ita Tobis, MSW, RSW, director of campus programming at JACS Toronto

“Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens is a clear, concise, and helpful guide for teens. It offers tools to manage negative thoughts and feelings. Throughout this workbook you will find relatable exercises and techniques to help you regain control over your thoughts. Sheri Van Dijk has done it again! This workbook offers our teens the opportunity to practice their most needed skills in areas such as self-awareness, effective communication, and healthy relationships.”
—Stephen Cruickshank, CYC (Cert), child and youth worker in acute outpatient services at Royal Victoria Regional…

“With a compassionate approach of validation, challenge, and acceptance, Van Dijk has developed a workbook for teens dealing with intense emotions. It is filled with relevant, insightful, and clearly illustrated concepts. The ongoing thought-provoking yet gentle questioning ensures the reader’s understanding. By including skill building exercises and activities that target thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, Van Dijk has created a wonderful, user-friendly, and concrete experience for teens.”
—Janice LeBlanc, registered psychotherapist, registered art therapist, and certified trauma and…

“Sheri’s new book teaches teens healthy ways of naming emotions, and the skills to move through distressing moments in their everyday experience. I love that the book is constructed in such a way that it can be used section by section, or one exercise at a time. The personal stories shared are very relevant to the current social environment experienced by youth, and the practice exercises are easy to follow.”
—Kinsey Lewis, registered psychotherapist with more than twenty-five years’ experience in community mental health with a special focus on transitional-age youth (16-24)

“Sheri Van Dijk is an expert in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and the second edition of Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens is another significant tool for helping teens through the emotional ups and downs of both average adolescence and more critical situations. Van Dijk teaches effective skills couched in relatable teen language and scenarios, so readers don’t get lost or feel intimidated by professional jargon. Excellent resource!”
—Lisa M. Schab, LCSW, psychotherapist; and author of eighteen self-help books, including the teen journals, Put Your Worries Here and Put Your…

“Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life For Teens has been my number one go-to resource book for guiding teens toward exploring with respect and curiosity their emotions, perceptions, and the value of learning how to “Walk the Middle Path.” The DBT skills and worksheets are presented with exceptional clarity and relevance making the therapeutic work engaging and informative. A tremendous resource when navigating through the wonderful maze of our lives. Recommended for home, clinical, or personal use.”
—Mitchell E. Beube, MSW, RSW, child, family, individual, and DBT group therapist