My Intense Emotions Handbook: Manage Your Emotions and Connect Better with Others
This is a guide to the emotional and interpersonal issues you may encounter as a young adult, packed with advice and real-life stories of hope and resilience from people in similar situations. This book will help you to gain an understanding of the influence of your early emotional experiences, and share tried-and-tested strategies, drawing on a range of psychological approaches and evidence-based strategies.

This book also looks at how emotions can affect our relationships, with a focus on building empathy for others, getting what you want out of friendships and relationships and dealing with the hard parts like boundaries and saying no, making amends when needed, and recognising and breaking problematic relationship patterns.

With personal stories and resources throughout, this is a guide to refer to as little or often as you like, helping you to understand your emotions and find the strategies that work best for you.

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My Intense Emotions Handbook: Manage Your Emotions and Connect Better with Others
This is a guide to the emotional and interpersonal issues you may encounter as a young adult, packed with advice and real-life stories of hope and resilience from people in similar situations. This book will help you to gain an understanding of the influence of your early emotional experiences, and share tried-and-tested strategies, drawing on a range of psychological approaches and evidence-based strategies.

This book also looks at how emotions can affect our relationships, with a focus on building empathy for others, getting what you want out of friendships and relationships and dealing with the hard parts like boundaries and saying no, making amends when needed, and recognising and breaking problematic relationship patterns.

With personal stories and resources throughout, this is a guide to refer to as little or often as you like, helping you to understand your emotions and find the strategies that work best for you.

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My Intense Emotions Handbook: Manage Your Emotions and Connect Better with Others

My Intense Emotions Handbook: Manage Your Emotions and Connect Better with Others

My Intense Emotions Handbook: Manage Your Emotions and Connect Better with Others

My Intense Emotions Handbook: Manage Your Emotions and Connect Better with Others

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Overview

This is a guide to the emotional and interpersonal issues you may encounter as a young adult, packed with advice and real-life stories of hope and resilience from people in similar situations. This book will help you to gain an understanding of the influence of your early emotional experiences, and share tried-and-tested strategies, drawing on a range of psychological approaches and evidence-based strategies.

This book also looks at how emotions can affect our relationships, with a focus on building empathy for others, getting what you want out of friendships and relationships and dealing with the hard parts like boundaries and saying no, making amends when needed, and recognising and breaking problematic relationship patterns.

With personal stories and resources throughout, this is a guide to refer to as little or often as you like, helping you to understand your emotions and find the strategies that work best for you.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781787753822
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publication date: 01/21/2021
Series: Handbooks Series
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.91(w) x 8.98(h) x 1.18(d)
Age Range: 14 Years

About the Author

Dr Sue Knowles is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Lead for Changing Minds Child and Family Services (CMCAFS), and co-founder of the Centre for Psychologically Responsive Leadership. She has diverse experience of working with leaders, and leadership teams, including within health, education, social care, charity sector and the corporate arena.

Kim S. Golding CBE, BSc, MSc, D. Clin. Psy. AFBPsS is a clinical psychologist who works in Worcestershire, England where she was influential in the founding of the Integrated Service for Looked After Children - a multi-agency, holistic service providing support for foster, adoptive and residential parents, schools and the range of professionals supporting children growing up in care or in adoptive families. Kim was trained and mentored by Dan Hughes in the use of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP). She was formerly on the board of the Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Institute supporting the use of DDP in Europe, USA and Canada. She accredits and trains professionals in the approach and has been invited to speak about this work internationally.

Table of Contents

Foreword 7

Acknowledgements 11

Part 1 Understanding our Emotions and Relationships

1 So, What's This Book All About? 15

2 What's Wrong With Me? 25

3 Understanding Your Brain 49

4 Big Emotions and Relationships: Loving So Much It Hurts 61

5 Bottle, Bottle, Bang! 81

Part 2 What Can Help - Intense Emotions

6 Getting the Basics Right: Feeling OK in Your Body 95

7 Self-Soothing 109

8 Riding Your Emotions 121

9 Coping in a Crisis 131

10 Being a Wise Owl 145

Part 3 What Can Help - Relationships

11 Understanding the Minds of Others 155

12 Saying No and Being Assertive 171

Part 4 Putting It All Together

13 Getting Extra Help 187

14 My Self-Care Plan 193

Appendix I Template for a Formulation (see Chapter 2) 197

Appendix II A Brief Guide to Medication 201

References and Further Reading 211

Index 215

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