DBT Parent Training Resources

• Parenting a Teen Who Has Intense Emotions
• The Power of Validation: Arming Your Child Against...Self-Harm and Out-of-Control Emotions
• Validation Youtube videos
• Parents And Adolescents Living Together (Book 2)
• How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk
• NY Times article on Teen Anxiety and Enabling (PDF file)
• NPR segment on Teen Anxiety and Enabling
• How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk (2006) by Adele Faber
• I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships (2017) by Michael Sorensen
• Active listening skills
• Active listening skills

• Instructions
• Reward Plan for Aggression/Curfew/School ( Word format RTF format)
• Google Docs: Reward Levels and Behavior log score sheet
• Reward Plan for Accepting No (aggression) ( Word format RTF format)
• Broad reward plan (daily log of points)
• Severe Behavior Plan

Parental Controls for electronic devices:
Web site 1
Web site 2
Video 1
Video 2
Video 3

• Validation example (acknowledging both sides)

• Extinction example (ignoring problem behavior)

• Truancy
• talking to kids about a divorce
• co-parenting through and after a divorce

Last modified: 7/7/18