Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training with Adolescents: A Practical Workbook for Therapists, Teens & Parents by Jean Eich

Author:Jean Eich
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training with Adolescents: A Practical Workbook for Therapists, Teens & Parents
ISBN: 9781937661373
Publisher: PESI Publishing and Media
Published: 2015-01-08T16:00:00+00:00

Parenting From Wise Mind

EMOTION MIND WISE MIND REASON MIND

Remember that DBT teaches three States of Mind, Emotion, Reason and Wise Mind (Linehan, 1993b).

Emotion Mind

When we are in Emotion Mind, we are focused on our emotions. This means that our emotions are in charge, and our thoughts and behaviors are driven by emotions (Linehan, 1993b). We can be in Emotion Mind with both enjoyable and difficult emotions. In Emotion Mind, we are not focused on the facts and are instead just experiencing and focusing on emotions.

When parents are in Emotion Mind, they are not thinking about what is most effective and are instead making decisions based on how they are feeling in the moment. When parents act from Emotion Mind, their kids may feel that they are not being heard or helped. In difficult situations, acting from Emotion Mind does not help a teenager manage his or her problem behaviors and often causes a parent to unintentionally make the event worse or reinforce the problem behavior.

Some examples of parenting from Emotion Mind include:

• Parent refusing to take his or her teen to the emergency room due to guilt and shame about his/her teen’s self-injury.

• Parent yelling at his or her teen when angry.

• Parent looking through his or her teen’s emails and texts because of fears of who his or her friends are.

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