What is it about?
This chapter is a very clear description of how to coach Emotion regulation skills, with some case vignettes. It also includes tables with all the key information, so that the therapist can familiarise themselves with the distinct features of each emotion - which is essential to the coaching process.
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Why is it important?
One of the main problems accounting for patient's lack of progress in DBT, is that they over-rely on distress tolerance skills. Those skills will get them through a crisis, but will not deliver the emotional awareness that they really need. Emotion regulation is a much harder set of skills to grasp, for the therapist and the patient, but works on the main deficit that the patient has - an inability to regulate painful emotion. It is vital for therapists to hone their coaching skills in this area, and this chapter gives simple explanations of how to do that.
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As trainer in DBT I love teaching emotion regulation, because therapists find it so useful for their clients. I have noticed a number of conceptual issues that confuse people, and have addressed them in this chapter.
Dr Christine Dunkley
Bangor University
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This page is a summary of: Conceptual and Practical Issues in the Application of Emotion Regulation in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, September 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198758723.013.31.
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