Affect Regulation / Emotion Regulation

A Guide To Emotions (Psychology Tools For Living Well)
Books & Chapters
Anger - Self-Monitoring Record
Worksheets
Anger Decision Sheet
Exercises
Anger Diary (Archived)
Archived
Anger Thought Challenging Record
Worksheets
Anxiety - Self-Monitoring Record
Worksheets
Assertive Communication
Information handouts
Assertive Responses
Exercises
Attention - Self-Monitoring Record
Worksheets
Audio Collection: Psychology Tools For Overcoming PTSD
Audio
Audio Collection: Psychology Tools For Relaxation
Audio
Autonomic Nervous System
Information handouts
Barriers Abusers Overcome In Order To Abuse
Information handouts
Breathing To Calm The Body Sensations Of Panic (Psychology Tools For Overcoming Panic)
Books & Chapters
Cognitive Behavioral Model Of Fear Of Body Sensations
Information handouts
Cognitive Behavioral Model Of The Relapse Process (Marlatt & Gordon, 1985)
Information handouts
Combined Relaxation Exercise (Audio)
Audio
Compassionate Thought Challenging Record
Worksheets
Coping With Body Sensations (Psychology Tools For Overcoming Panic)
Books & Chapters
Decatastrophizing
Exercises
Drawing Your Feelings (CYP)
Exercises
Embracing Uncertainty
Exercises
Emotions
Information handouts
Emotions Motivate Actions
Information handouts
Exposure And Response Prevention
Exercises
Fight or Flight (CYP)
Information handouts
Fight Or Flight Response
Information handouts
Forgiveness Is
Information handouts
Forgiveness Methods
Information handouts
Grounding Objects (Audio)
Audio
Grounding Statements (Audio)
Audio
Grounding Techniques
Exercises
Grounding Techniques Menu
Information handouts
Habituation
Information handouts
How Breathing Affects Feelings
Information handouts
How Does Emotion Affect Your Life?
Exercises
How Your Body Responds To Stress
Information handouts
Interoceptive Exposure
Exercises
Intrusive Memory Record
Worksheets
Learning To Relax (CYP)
Exercises
Managing Substance Use Disorder: Practitioner Guide
Treatments That Work®
Motivational Systems (Emotional Regulation Systems)
Information handouts
Permissive Thinking – Self-Monitoring Record
Worksheets
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Exercises
Progressive Muscle Relaxation (Archived)
Archived
Progressive Muscle Relaxation (Audio)
Audio
Recovering From A Nightmare (Audio)
Audio
Relaxed Breathing
Exercises
Relaxed Breathing Exercise 1 (Audio)
Audio
Relaxed Breathing Exercise 2 (Audio)
Audio
Relaxed Breathing Exercise 3 (Audio)
Audio
Relaxed Breathing Exercise 4 (Audio)
Audio
Relaxed Breathing Record Form
Worksheets
Responses To Threat: Freeze, Appease, Flight, Fight
Information handouts
Sensory Grounding Using Smells (Audio)
Audio
Sensory Grounding Using Your Five Senses (Audio)
Audio
Stimulus Discrimination
Exercises
Stimulus Discrimination (Audio)
Audio
Trauma And Dissociation
Guides
Trauma, Dissociation, And Grounding (Archived)
Archived
Types Of Dissociation
Information handouts
Uncertainty Beliefs – Experiment Record
Worksheets
Unforgiveness Hook Metaphor
Information handouts
Unhelpful Thinking Styles
Information handouts
Urges – Self-Monitoring Record
Worksheets
VAS Scale
Exercises
What Keeps Panic Going?
Information handouts
Window Of Tolerance
Information handouts
Worry Decision Tree
Exercises
Your Stone Age Brain
Information handouts
Your Stone Age Brain (CYP)
Information handouts
Intervention
Treatment manuals
- Emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and distress tolerance skills for adolescents: A treatment manual | Charlers Bonner | 2002 download archived copy
- A quality manual for MBT | Anthony Bateman, Dawn Bales, Joost Hutsebaut | 2014 download archived copy
Information Handouts
- DBT skills quick reference sheet download archived copy
- States of mind handout (logical, emotional, wise) download archived copy
- DBT skills mindfulness overview download archived copy
- Reality acceptance skills overview download archived copy
- Guided mindfulness practice script download archived copy
- Emotion myths worksheet download archived copy
- Working with primary and secondary emotions download archived copy
- Interpersonal effectiveness skills handout (DEAR MAN) download archived copy
Worksheets
- DBT multi-purpose pros and cons worksheet download archived copy
- DBT skills training pros and cons worksheet download archived copy
- Distress tolerance worksheet download archived copy
- Check the facts handout and worksheet download archived copy
- Opposite action handout and worksheet download archived copy
- DBT behavior chain and solution analysis worksheet download archived copy
Self-Help Programmes
Overcoming distress intolerance (facing your feelings)
- Understanding distress intolerance download
- Accepting distress download
- Improving distress download
- Tolerating distress download
Mindful awareness stabilization training
- Session 1 – Mindfulness and the window of tolerance download archived copy
- Session 2 – Mindfulness and the brain download archived copy
- Session 3 – Mindfulness and emotions download archived copy
- Session 4 – Developing an action plan for self care download archived copy
- Audio track 1 – Mindfulness of the senses link
- Audio track 2 – Three minute breathing space link
- Audio track 3 – Mindfulness of breath link
- Audio track 4 – Meditation of sounds link
- Audio track 5 – Mindfulness of emotions link
- Audio track 6 – Standing meditation link
- Audio track 7 – Self-compassion meditation link
Presentations
- Mentalisation Based Therapy – training slides
ucl.ac.ukarchived copy - Mentalisation Based Therapy – clinical slides
ucl.ac.ukarchived copy - What is mentalizing and why do it? | Chris Taylor download archived copy
- Adolescent mentalization based therapy | Louise Duffy, Helen Griffiths | 2016
downloadarchived copy
Recommended Reading
- Bowlby, J. (1969/1982). Attachment and loss: Vol. 1. Attachment (2nd edition). New York: Basic Books
- Hofmann, S. G. (2014). Interpersonal emotion regulation model of mood and anxiety disorders. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 38(5), 483-492. download
What Is Affect Regulation?
Techniques for Affect Regulation
Affect regulation is a broad category that encompasses almost anything done to manage our emotional state including:
- acceptance (the effortful ‘allowing’ of the experience of aversive states without engaging in avoidance or distraction)
- cognitive restructuring / cognitive reappraisal
- distraction
- distress tolerance
- grounding techniques
- mindfulness / mindful awareness
- psychoeducation / understanding about emotions
- response modulation (the strategic use of exercise or relaxation)
- urge surfing
References
- Bowlby, J. (1969). Attachment and loss: Volume I. Attachment. London: The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.
- Bowlby, J. (1982). Attachment and loss: retrospect and prospect. American journal of Orthopsychiatry, 52(4), 664.