Emotion regulation module overview
The Emotion Regulation Module is aimed at helping individuals manage and control their emotions more effectively. This module focuses on teaching individuals skills to understand, identify, and modulate their emotional responses in various situations. By learning these skills, individuals can reduce emotional vulnerability, increase emotional resilience, and ultimately improve their overall well-being.
One key aspect of the Emotion Regulation Module is the identification of different types of emotions and understanding their triggers. By recognising emotions such as anger, sadness, fear, and joy, individuals can better understand why they feel a certain way in particular situations. They can then work towards regulating these emotions by implementing various strategies such as mindfulness, distress tolerance, and emotion modulation techniques. For example, if someone experiences intense anger in response to criticism at work, they can use emotion regulation skills to respond more adaptively rather than reactively.
The Emotion Regulation Module emphasises the importance of building a toolkit of coping strategies to effectively manage difficult emotions. These strategies include self-soothing activities, relaxation techniques, cognitive restructuring, and problem-solving skills. By practising these skills regularly, individuals can develop a greater sense of emotional control and stability. Ultimately, the Emotion Regulation Module equips individuals with the necessary tools to navigate challenging emotional experiences and lead a more balanced and fulfilling life.
Curriculum
Our Facilitators
Our facilitators are experienced mental health clinicians and have received comprehensive training in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), bringing a wealth of practical knowledge and a deep dedication to empowering individuals with the skills needed to navigate emotional crises. Our clinicians passion for DBT and its potential to transform lives is evident in their dynamic teaching style, which emphasises the synthesis of theoretical knowledge with real-world applications.
Our commitment to this evidence-based modality stems from our own professional and personal journeys witnessing the profound impact that mastering distress tolerance skills can have on clients' resilience and overall mental well-being.
What is Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)?
- An evidence-based approach in which clinicians work collaboratively with emotionally sensitive clients to develop strategies that reduce their unwanted behaviours.
- An approach that helps replace unwanted behaviours with skilful behaviours.
- A skills-based approach that helps navigate relationships.
- An approach that focuses on creating a life worth living.
What Does Dialectical Mean?
- Dialectical means that two opposite ideas can be true at the same time, and when considered together, can create new truths and ways of viewing the situation.
- In short, there is always more than one way to think about a situation, someone's position, or thought processes.
- Dialectics is the opposite to black and white thinking.
What is Behaviour Therapy?
A combination of our genetics and environment can generally explain our behaviours. An example of the genetic component is that most people completing a DBT program are predisposed to a higher sensitivity to their emotions. The behavioural aspect of DBT focuses on helping clients identify and modify unhelpful behaviours by understanding the triggers, consequences, and underlying emotional functions of those behaviours. Through behavioural chain analysis, skills training, and reinforcement strategies, individuals learn to replace impulsive or self-destructive actions with more effective, value-aligned behaviours. This component is grounded in behaviourist principles and aims to increase behavioural flexibility, promote skill generalisation across contexts, and support long-term behaviour change.
Program Schedule
- The program includes mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness modules.
- The program is 30 weeks in total, running over three 10-week semesters.