My Intense Emotions Handbook: Manage Your Emotions and Connect Better with Others, Paperback

This is a guide to the emotional and interpersonal issues you may encounter as a young adult, packed with advice and real-life stories of hope and resilience from people in similar situations. This book will help you to gain an understanding of the influence of your early emotional experiences, and share tried-and-tested strategies, drawing on a range of psychological approaches and evidence-based strategies.

This book also looks at how emotions can affect our relationships, with a focus on building empathy for others, getting what you want out of friendships and relationships and dealing with the hard parts like boundaries and saying no, making amends when needed, and recognising and breaking problematic relationship patterns.

With personal stories and resources throughout, this is a guide to refer to as little or often as you like, helping you to understand your emotions and find the strategies that work best for you.

About author(s):

Dr Sue Knowles is the Clinical Lead for Changing Minds UK, overseeing their Child and Family Service and Individual Wellbeing Service. She is a Senior Clinical Psychologist who works with young people and those who care for them, specialising in anxiety, attachment, resiliency, risk and complex trauma.

Dr Bridie Gallagher is a Senior Clinical Psychologist working in secure accommodation to ensure the care of the young people is attachment informed. Bridie has special interests in working with anxiety, developmental trauma, resilience and risk. Bridie strongly believes that learning good self-care and understanding emotional wellbeing is vital to young people's healthy development.

Hannah Bromley is an expert by experience, who has a history of significant mental health difficulties and has 'come out the other side'. She has worked within CAMHS alongside Clinical Psychologists to co-facilitate a Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) group for other young people. Hannah has additionally co-facilitated training days for teachers and school nurses. In the future she aspires to become a clinical psychologist, specialising in Neuropsychology. In the meantime, she strives to improve services for young people and advance the practice of awareness of mental wellbeing within schools.