Written by experienced child therapists who are parents themselves, The Self-Regulation Workbook for Children Ages 5 to 8: A Parent-Child Resource for Engaging in Healthy Coping Skills and Building Connection [Ulysses Press; April 2025] uses the foremost knowledge and methods to help both caregivers and children build strong relationships and instill useful regulation tools into their everyday lives.
Author Kahlila Robinson, PhD, in collaboration with Sarah Gerstenzang, LCSW, provides firsthand guidance on essential emotional regulation skills such as co-regulation, frustration tolerance, expressing feelings, caregiver reflection, and child self-control, through fun and engaging activities.
Activities and guidance include:
• How to use play and connection as a baseline approach
• Naming and noticing feelings
• Guidance for building emotional resilience and reflection in your child
• Emotion regulation strategies for the caregiver to use during tough
• Learning the strengths and limits of a child’s brain
• How to use parent reflection to better understand and respond to challenging child behaviors
• How to set limits and repair ruptures
• Guidance from enduring theory and research on child emotion regulation
• And so much more!
“This workbook presents the parenting concepts and strategies that have been most helpful in our own families and to the hundreds of families, parents, and children we have worked with throughout the years,” Dr. Robinson says. “We created this workbook in order to share the insights, concepts, helpful guidance, and tools we have gathered with a wider audience. As you will read, many families, including our own, face similar challenges when children are between the ages of five and eight.”
Gerstenzang adds, “Kids this age can be remarkably observant and insightful. Many are willing to explore their emotions and to learn new skills to help them feel better and get along well with their family. Yet despite all of their amazing growth and abilities, five- to eight-year-olds continue to need help from adults in dealing with ‘big’ emotions.”
The Self-Regulation Workbook for Children Ages 5 to 8 can be used as an activity for the child, caregiver, or family unit to foster confidence and create an emotionally supportive environment.
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Available Now and Coming Soon from Ulysses Press
The Self-Regulation Workbook for Kids: CBT Exercises and Coping Strategies to Help Children Handle Anxiety, Stress, and Other Strong Emotions [ISBN: 978-1-64604-183-1; November 2021] by Jenna Berman, LCSW
The Self-Regulation Workbook for 3- to 5-Year-Olds: Play-Based and Creative Activities to Build Coping Skills and Handle Big Emotions [ISBN: 978-1-64604-729-1; October 2024] by Abbré R. M. McClain, PsyD, LCPC, Jacqueline Salazar, PsyD, LCPC
The Self-Regulation Handbook for Teens and Young Adults: A Trauma-Informed Guide to Fostering Personal Resilience and Enhancing Interpersonal Skills [ISBN: 978-1-64604-757-4; August 5, 2025] by Kathy P. Wu, PhD
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Kahlila Robinson, PhD, is a psychologist in private practice in New York City. She received her doctoral training from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She has specialized training and experience working with children and families, in parent mental health, and with adults with relational trauma. She has worked in hospital and clinic settings, as a mental health consultant in preschools, and as director of parent mental health of a nationally recognized early intervention program in the Bronx, New York. She is a supervising psychologist for child and adult psychology graduate students at City College. She is an advocate for the availability of high-quality mental health services for underserved and vulnerable populations. She lives with her husband and children in New York City.
Sarah Gerstenzang, LCSW, is passionate about healthy human development. She currently works as a therapist with foster and adoptive families and previously held policy and administrative positions in child welfare. She holds a master’s degree in social work from Columbia University. She is the board president of the Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of NY and has served on numerous advisory committees, including Fostering Families Today magazine, the Effects of Early Life Adversity on Brain Development (NIMH grant with Nim Tottenham, PhD), and on the National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative. Sarah has been a foster and kinship parent and one of her three children was adopted from the New York City foster care system.
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