DBT Emotion Regulation Skills: Emotion Psychoeducation and Mindfulness
Key Points
- Emotion dysregulation is a common experience for DBT patients.
- It is important to discuss the benefits of emotion and challenge desires to eliminate emotions.
- Identifying and labeling emotions helps to reduce their intensity.
- The emotion regulation module involves psycho-education about emotion, teaches skills to change unwanted emotions and reduce vulnerability to emotion mind.
- Mastery involves taking small action steps toward long-term goals; PLEASE skills refer to self-care activities; opposite action involves engaging in a behavior opposite to one that is mood congruent.
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