The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Teens: Simple Skills to Balance Emotions, Manage Stress, and Feel Better Now

An essential and engaging dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) workbook to help teens manage stress and deal with emotions in healthy ways.

Do you feel completely stressed out all the time? Do you struggle to find the words to describe your feelings or find it difficult to keep your emotions in check? Are you looking for ways to improve your mental health? If so, you aren’t alone. Being a teen in today’s world is tough. Between school, friends, social media, and an unpredictable real world, there’s plenty to feel stressed about. The good news is you can easily learn a few simple skills that will make a huge difference in how you manage your emotions. This workbook--written just for teens--can help.

In The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Teens, you’ll learn effective methods for coping with stress and improving your overall well-being. You’ll discover the four core skills of DBT--mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness--and find ways to put these skills into action each day to help you reduce stress, find emotional balance, make friends, and be your best.

The book is packed with:

• Tips to help you prevent emotional overwhelm
• Activities to help foster self-reflection and awareness
• Strategies to help you identify emotional triggers
• Ways to soothe stress in body and mind

If you’re a teen and you’re struggling, know that you aren’t alone. This workbook will give you the tools you need to stay grounded, build resilience, and thrive. Why not get started today?

Debra Garcia, PhD, is a faculty member in the psychology department at California State University, Los Angeles. She has worked with children, adolescents, and their families for more than twenty-five years in clinical and research settings. Garcia’s adolescent stress and wellness research at CSULA focuses on dimensions of adolescent stress, generational communication patterns, family well-being, and advocacy for healthy school climates. She also conducts psychometric research for the development of new stress measures and assessments authenticated by the voice of teens and college students. Garcia is a community leader, speaker, and advocate for healthy neighborhoods and infrastructure systems for marginalized youth with minority status.

Wilson Ho, LMFT, is an associate marriage and family therapist working at Para Los Niños, a community mental health organization dedicated to helping marginalized community members navigate through mental health support and providing therapeutic services to children, families, and adults. Ho is also part of a research lab with Debra Moreno Garcia for the past four years that helped promote the advocacy and empowerment in amplifying the voices of teenagers and establishing equality in parent-child relationships. Wilson is also part of the Los Angeles chapter of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. Mentorship program to share about his experiences and support other marriage and family therapists in their journey of healing for both oneself and others.