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For many parents, it can feel as if they are required to do their best parenting in situations where they feel least equipped to exercise the skills they need to make good parenting choices.  This article will help you learn techniques for making healthy parenting choices when you are in conflict with your teen and…

Watching your teen struggle is a unique challenge. Even when your teen is ready to change, it can be challenging to know what you can do to help. One technique that you can use to help your teen is using cues. When your teen is struggling, the situation can seem impossible. One of the most…

Bullying is described as a behavior that: is intended to cause distress or harm, involves an imbalance of power or strength between the aggressor and the target, and generally occurs repeatedly over time. There is a line that is crossed when something goes from teasing to bullying and it’s important to recognize when and if that…

Improve Your Relationships and Maintain Your Self-Respect One of the major components of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is Interpersonal Effectiveness, or improving your relationship with other people. One set of strategies that will allow you to improve your relationship with other people is represented by the acronym GIVE FAST. GIVE Skills are designed to help you maintain healthy relationships. FAST Skills…

DBT Skills: How to Get People to Do What You Want DEAR MAN is an acronym to help you remember a behavioral strategy that can make it more likely that you get what you want from other people. It is not a Jedi mind control trick. It is a strategy to help you assert yourself…

If You Are the Parent of an Angry Teen, You Are Not Alone For a lot of people, anger is an unpleasant or even frightening emotion. However, even anger has a purpose. Anger can be motivating. It can show us the things that are important to us. It can give us the strength to act…