Will hitting your kids make them behave? Of course it will not. Dialect Behavioral Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy are sets of skills, techniques one can use to communicate and to manage their emotions in a non-violent manner.

CBT can be summarized as identifying negative thoughts and challenging and replacing negative thoughts. It also involves changing maladaptive behaviors and maintaining use these tactics through practice.

An example of DBT is imagining oneself as having two minds – emotion mind and logic mind. When one mind becomes inflated, it directly affects the other mind by diminishing its capabilities. For example, when we get very angry, it diminishes our logical capabilities at that time. This manifests by us sometimes saying things we don’t mean.

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