Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotion Regulation, Interpersonal problems, Values
It’s Monday night, and Kathleen returns home after a long day at work; she opens the door and as soon as she enters she hears the voice of her 15-year old daughter, Natalie, “Can I spend the night at my boyfriend’s house?” Caught by surprise, Kathleen pauses, and then...
Behavior change, Emotion Regulation, Empirically supported treatments
Dear Readers: This is the second part of a series of posts for parents who have discovered their teen is cutting and want to know what to do about it. In our previous post, for parents: what to do if you teen is cutting (part 1), we identified specific steps for...
Behavior change, Emotion Regulation, Empirically supported treatments, Parent series: emotion regulation, Parent series: general parenting
It can be challenging for any of us to see a friend, family member, or loved one upset. It can be especially difficult for a parent to see their child this way. Often parents find themselves wanting to “fix” or “solve” the problem for their child so that they are no...
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotion Regulation
“I told my daughter that he couldn’t go out and next think I know she’s yelling at me: “If you don’t let me go out with my boyfriend I’m going to cut.” “I was cleaning my kid’s bed and then I saw a cutting kit, it...
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotion Regulation
Now that we’ve defined what behaviors will result in time-out, let’s consider implementation. It’s a good idea for a young child to have a designated time-out spot in the home. This could be the corner of a room or in a hallway. A room in the house that is relatively...
Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotion Regulation, Empirically supported treatments
This is post is the last post on this series of “Anger Specialists: Why do I continue to be angry.” In the next paragraphs I’ll describe how anger affects interpersonal relationships and how aversive strategies destroy what people crave the most: intimate...
