Emotion Regulation in Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide

Robert Leahy is the recipient of the 2014 Aaron T. Beck Award from the Academy of Cognitive Therapy.

Highly practical and accessible, this unique book gives therapists powerful tools for helping patients learn to cope with feared or avoided emotional experiences. The book presents a menu of effective intervention options—including schema modification, stress management, acceptance, mindfulness, self-compassion, cognitive restructuring, and other techniques—and describes how to select the best ones for particular patients or situations. Provided are sample questions to pose to patients, specific interventions to use, suggested homework assignments, illustrative examples and sample dialogues, and troubleshooting tips. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the volume is packed with over 65 reproducible handouts and forms.

KEY POINTS

• Great potential: nuts-and-bolts CBT guide to treating emotion regulation problems, a core issue in borderline personality disorder, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and other disorders.
• Complete: nine ''approach'' chapters describe how to implement a wide range of techniques and provide needed handouts and forms.
• Designed for utility, from the conversational writing style to the oversized format with many reproducibles.
• Lead author Leahy has written bestselling CBT resources.

The Publisher grants individual book purchasers nonassignable permission to reproduce selected materials in this book for professional use. For details and limitations, see copyright page.

Table of Contents

1. Why Is Emotion Regulation Important?
2. Emotional Schema Therapy
3. Validation
4. Identification and Refutation of Emotion Myths
5. Mindfulness
6. Acceptance and Willingness
7. Compassionate Mind Training
8. Enhancing Emotional Processing
9. Cognitive Restructuring
10. Stress Reduction
11. Conclusions

Appendix. Reproducible Forms