Emotional Regulation
Identify (observe and describe/name) emotions.
Know what emotions do for you (are your emotions working for or against you in this moment?).
What is
Understand the emotions that you experience?
• We need to be mindful that emotions are not facts. Therefore, it is important to check the facts about the situation
What is Emotions Give Us Information?
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
What is DBT?
• Increase positive emotions.
• Decrease vulnerability to Emotion Mind
What is Reduce emotional vulnerability and stop unwanted emotions from starting in the first place?
Strong emotions can help us overcome obstacles— in our mind and in the environment.
What do Emotions Motivate and Prepare Us for Action.
is a technique for changing painful emotions. The idea behind ---------- is that it can help you deal with distressing emotions by setting into motion an action that is helpful instead of harmful. Doing this counteracts the suffering you might otherwise feel because of the distressing emotion and prevents you from doing something harmful.
Abandoned, avoidance, confused, submissive, threatened, courageous, interested, bored, critical
What are emotions?
• Whether you realize it or not, your emotions— expressed by words, face, or body language— influence how other people respond to you.
What do Emotions Communicate to, and Influence, Others?
• Let go of painful emotions using mindfulness.
• Change emotions through opposite action
What is Decrease emotional suffering; stop or reduce unwanted emotions once they start?
a tool used in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to help clients see the present moment for what is and look at it more objectively, rather than purely emotionally
What is radical acceptance?
Decrease the frequency of unwanted emotions.
What is Emotional Regulation?
Dr. Marsha M. Linehan
Who invented DBT?