Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions

Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions provides dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) strategies and skills to parents of children with explosive emotions. Readers learn to understand and accept their children's emotion dysregulation and learn skills for changing both their own behaviors and those of the child.

Pat Harvey, LCSW-C, has practiced clinical social work for more than thirty years, working with families and individuals with serious emotion dysregulation. She now specializes in facilitating dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills groups for parents of individuals with intense emotions. Jeanine A. Penzo, LICSW, is a licensed clinical social worker with the VA Boston Healthcare System, where she utilizes dialectical behavior theraphy (DBT) skills. She is a former teacher and the mother of a child with emotion dysregulation.