Clinical psychologist Dr. Stephanie Jacobs joins Leslie to answer a question from a parent feeling overwhelmed and helpless in the face of her teenage daughter’s intense emotions. Stephanie gives a crash course in the concepts of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and how distress tolerance skills might be useful for this parent. We discuss why parents may want to manage their own emotional activation before jumping in to help their kids, validation and what it sounds like, concrete examples of DBT distress tolerance skills, and how parents and kids can start putting them into practice today.

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