My Intense Emotions Handbook
Manage Your Emotions and Connect Better with Others
Published on 21. January 2021
224 pages
978-1-78775-383-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Series
Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Illustrated edition
Illustrations
15 black and white illustrations
ISBN-13
978-1-78775-383-9 (9781787753839)
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Sue Knowles | Bridie Gallagher | Hannah Bromley
My Intense Emotions Handbook
Manage Your Emotions and Connect Better with Others
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01/2021
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Persons
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.
Content
- Intro
- My Intense Emotions Handbook
- Cover
- Of related interest
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Part 1: Understanding our Emotions and Relationships
- 1. So, What's This Book All About?
- 2. What's Wrong With Me?
- 3. Understanding Your Brain
- 4. Big Emotions and Relationships: Loving So Much it Hurts
- 5. Bottle, Bottle, Bang!
- Part 2: What Can Help - Intense Emotions
- 6. Getting the Basics Right: Feeling OK in Your Body
- 7. Self-Soothing
- 8. Riding Your Emotions
- 9. Coping in a Crisis
- 10. Being a Wise Owl
- Part 3: What Can Help - Relationships
- 11. Understanding the Minds of Others
- 12. Saying No and Being Assertive
- Part 4: Putting It All Together
- 13. Getting Extra Help
- 14. My Self-Care Plan
- Appendix I: Template for a Formulation (see Chapter 2)
- Appendix II: A Brief Guide to Medication
- References and Further Reading
- Index
