Connecting emotion regulation
Understand thinking patterns, practise responding to emotions, work on problems and follow practice across the week.
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- Concepts
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- Modules
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- Situations
Guiding idea
Start here if emotion regulation should be thought of as a whole practice — not as a single skill.
Decision aid
This cluster links emotion regulation across several time horizons: Cognitive Vulnerability makes visible thinking styles that make escalation more likely, Emotion Exposure trains the measured tolerating of avoided feelings, Problem Solving works on real situations that can be changed, the Weekly Regulator holds skill practice together across the week. Together, emotion regulation becomes readable not only as a single skill but as an integrated practice of understanding, practising, changing and following through.
One possible starting point
Problem Solving
Better to start here when the facts support a real problem and the situation should be actively changed.
Also in: Distress Tolerance · Interpersonal Effectiveness
Other options
Cognitive Vulnerability
Better to start here when thinking habits and assumptions that help drive emotional escalation need to become visible.
Also in: Mindfulness
Emotion Exposure
Better to start here when a feeling needs to be tolerated safely and in doses instead of being avoided further.
Also in: Distress Tolerance
Weekly Regulator
Better to start here when emotion regulation needs to be planned, bundled and followed up across the week.