Dr. Joanne Dolhanty, Vanja Hjelmseth, Bente Austbø & Anne Hilde Vassbø Hagen
$59.99 USD
This book gives a complete overview of the theory, practice, and research of an emotion-centered, humanistic approach to supporting the parents of individuals who struggle with any mental health challenge. The book conveys an unyielding belief in parents’ motivation and ability to heal the parent-child relationship and help their child (young, adolescent, or adult child) through their struggles. Drawing on the most current understanding of emotions and human development, the book clearly outlines a central role for parents in treating and preventing mental health difficulties in their families. The many examples provide a vivid and emotionally moving portrait of the power of parents if we only support them to find their way.
Anne Hilde Vassbø Hagen, cand.psychol, and Joanne Dolhanty, PhD
$21.99 USD
Psychologists Anne Hilde Vassbø Hagen and Joanne Dolhanty explain everything you need to know about your child’s anger and how to manage it.
Anger can be normal and healthy when it enables us to stand up for ourselves and defend against injustice. However, it can also lead to aggression—even violence—while also hiding other, more vulnerable emotions. For instance, an angry child may be hiding embarrassment, shame, disappointment, sadness, loneliness, or fear. As a parent, it is your job to help your child understand their anger, express it in an appropriate way, and address the underlying need.
In Angry Kids, Angry Parents you will learn how to respond to your child’s anger in a sensitive and productive way that validates their feelings, addresses their needs, and teaches them to manage their own anger. It can be nerve-wracking to watch your child explode in rage. This book will teach you how to stay calm and protect your boundaries.
Supported by years of psychological research and therapeutic practice, the strategies in this practical, compassionate book will help any parent who struggles with their child’s anger.
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Joanne Dolhanty and Anne Hilde Vassbø Hagen
Part of Series IX: Children and Adolescents
You can now purchase this video where Joanne and Anne Hilde take you through an EFST session with a parent and explain as they go.
A film for all parents who have angry kids or are angry themselves.
Meet a father in the middle of a challenging bedtime routine, where Lego bricks are flying, and he grabs his eldest daughter hard by the arm. How will he manage to fix things once they’ve gone wrong, and how will he get the kids to the bathroom to brush their teeth? Want to learn more about anger?
Read the book with the same title, “Angry Kids, Angry Parents” by Anne Hilde Vassbø Hagen and Joanne Dolhanty.
Anger helps us stand up for ourselves, set boundaries, and protect ourselves from threats and injustice. But anger can also show up as rejecting rage, screaming, biting, hitting, and kicking. Anger and aggression in children cause great concern for parents, and there is a high demand for knowledge and advice. What is anger? Why is this emotion so challenging? What does a child who is threatening and has a dark look in their eyes need? How can even the most discouraged parents regain confidence that they can manage their child’s anger?
The key lies in understanding how anger works and that there are often vulnerable emotions behind aggressive behavior. A raging child is often embarrassed or ashamed, and anger can be an expression of grief, loneliness, or fear. Adults need to become aware of what feelings the child’s intense behavior triggers in themselves, and how they can work with their own emotions that may hinder them from being there for the child in a good way without becoming aggressive in return. Anger is an emotion with a bad reputation. We also want to remind people why anger is an important feeling. Having a healthy relationship with anger can prevent mental health issues.
This film is made in Norwegian by Anne Hilde Vassbø Hagen, and translation and therapist voice in this English film is done by Dr. Joanne Dolhanty.
The film is made in collaboration with Rådet for psykisk helse, and financed by Stiftelsen Dam.
Want to learn more? Read the book Angry Kids, Angry Parents
This video presents the paper, Emotion-focused skills training for parents with anxious children. A pilot study. Published online in Journal of Marital and Family Therapy in April 2023
Emotion Focused Podcast with
Dr. Lou Cooper
‘Yummy foods and starvation are like taking a good strong dose of pain medicine.’ Joanne Dolhanty talks about an emotion focused perspective to understanding eating disorders.
Emotion Focused Podcast with
Dr. Lou Cooper
Are you emotionally a lion or a lamb? And how can you best use your characteristic way of being as a parent? Joanne Dolhanty describes an Emotion Focused approach to parenting.
Emotionsfokussiertes Skilltraining für Eltern und Familien (EFST)
Ein innovativer Ansatz für die Begleitung von Eltern (nicht nur) psychisch kranker Kinder: Dr. Julika Swack and Dr. Joanne Dolhanty
Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, DOI: reports the outcome data.
Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, DOI: reports the outcome data.
Frontiers in Psychology reports on the qualitative analysis of interviews with a small subset of the parents who participated in the study.
BMC Psychology project EFST (Emotion Focused Skills Training) in specialist health care in Norway.
Emotion Focused Skills Training for Parents With Anxious Children. A Pilot Study.
Journal of Marital and Family Therapy reports on remission in children from anxiety diagnosis when parents receive Emotion Focused Skills Training.
