Supporting Parents with Emotion Dysregulation-Webinar Recording

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Video Summary

The speaker in the video discusses the importance of teaching emotion regulation to parents, drawing from personal parenting experiences and professional expertise in PCIT, CBT, DBT, and ACT. They emphasize that many parents struggle even after undergoing behavioral training programs, indicating a need for emotion regulation skills to manage testy situations like public tantrums. By regulating their emotions, parents can impose appropriate consequences, reduce guilt, and maintain the effectiveness of behavioral strategies. The video highlights common challenges parents face, such as emotional burnout, time depletion, and intense negative emotions, and shares an anecdote of a parent who initially struggled with her child's demands but eventually formed a stronger bond through improved emotional regulation.<br /><br />Strategies suggested include prioritizing self-care via DBT's plea skills like sleep hygiene and stress management, creating consistent routines, managing transitions, and applying practical executive function skills. The talk also stresses the importance of maintaining consistency, recognizing parental values, accepting chaos, and reducing children's emotional vulnerabilities. Additionally, effective communication through emotion labeling, crisis survival skills, and post-incident cognitive restructuring can aid parents.<br /><br />The session encourages therapists to support parents through active listening, validation, mindfulness, and managing expectations while addressing challenges such as inconsistent skill application and unrealistic expectations.

Keywords

emotion regulation

parenting

PCIT

CBT

DBT

ACT

self-care

emotional burnout

communication skills