Patricia E. Zurita Ona

Clients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) need compassionate and proven-effective care to help them manage emotions, improve interpersonal relationships, and move beyond negative beliefs about themselves. This book outlines a new treatment framework utilizing acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help clinicians treat BPD and emotion dysregulation problems with a focus on values and forgiveness. With this guide, clinicians will learn to target the fundamental cause of BPD for better treatment outcomes and happier, healthier clients.

A Flexible Treatment Plan for Clients with Emotional Dysregulation

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder

Matthew McKay

Patrick Fanning

We all have our own ways of handling stressful situations without letting emotions get the best of us, but some ways of coping work better than others. Short-term fixes that help us avoid or numb our emotions may temporarily alleviate sadness and anger, but can also end up causing anxiety, depression, chronic anger, and even physical health problems. If you struggle with overwhelming emotions and feel trapped by unhealthy patterns, this workbook is your ticket out. Mind and Emotions is a revolutionary universal treatment program for all emotional disorders that helps you discover which of the seven problematic coping styles is keeping you trapped in a cycle of emotional pain. Instead of working on difficulties like anxiety, anger, shame, and depression one by one, you’ll treat the root of all your emotional suffering at once. Drawing on evidence-based skills from cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and dialectical behavior therapy, this workbook offers all the techniques you need to manage unwelcome feelings in effective and productive ways. Learn and practice the most effective coping skills: Clarifying and acting on your core values Mindfulness and acceptance Detaching from negative thoughts Self-soothing and relaxation exercises Assertiveness and interpersonal skills Gradually facing your strong emotions This book has been awarded The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Self-Help Seal of Merit — an award bestowed on outstanding self-help books that are consistent with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) principles and that incorporate scientifically tested strategies for overcoming mental health difficulties.

A Universal Treatment for Emotional Disorders

Mind and Emotions

Raising a teen is tough—especially when your teen has trouble regulating their emotions and lashes out. This groundbreaking book will give you the tools you need to stop unwittingly reinforcing your teen’s bad behavior, reduce conflicts, and get your teen on track with the things that really matter. If you have a teen who experiences extreme emotions, either as a result of a mental health diagnosis such as borderline personality disorder (BPD), or simply because you have a highly emotional teen, you probably need help right now. Parenting a teen comes with its own challenges, but when your teen acts out you may feel like you are at your wits end. To make matters worse, you may have difficulty managing your own emotions and responses. Written by an expert in teen mental health, Parenting a Troubled Teen is based in proven-effective acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). In the book, you'll find the tools you need to parent your troubled teen, pay attention to your own reactions, and put an end to the cycle of conflict that has taken over your home. In this book, you’ll learn to observe the thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations that drive your own parenting behaviors, and how these behaviors can impact your teen. This is not a book about how to be a perfect parent. Everyone makes mistakes and reacts negatively to a situation from time to time. But if you’re committed to improving your relationship with your teen, helping them take charge of their emotions, and ending family conflict, this practical guide will show you how.

Manage Conflict and Deal with Intense Emotions Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Parenting a Troubled Teen

Erica Pool

For readers struggling with painful and overwhelming emotions such as anxiety, depression, shame, anger, and self-blame, Healing Emotional Pain Workbook offers powerful and customizable tools grounded in process-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for finding balance and improving well-being. With this proven-effective workbook, readers will learn to target the root cause of their emotional pain, and discover personalized skills for living a vital and values-based life.

Patricia E. Zurita Ona

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