33 Tips and Tools for Stress Management and Emotion Regulation Toolbox: Using CBT, DBT, Mindfulness and ACT

Complete this program and gain several strategies and experiential exercises that will help your client manage stress…and not carry it! You will learn how stress can be positive and how to use it as a motivational tool in treatment. Discover new techniques to help your client to regulate their emotions and cope with intense emotions, such as stress resiliency activities, mood logs, and mindfulness.

Judy Belmont, MS, LPC, author of bestselling Tips and Tools for the Therapeutic Toolbox series, will offer you practical tips to easily incorporate in your practice. Learn innovative and psycho-educational tips derived from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy that you can add to your emotional regulation and stress management toolbox.

Objectives:

Integrate strategies from DBT, ACT, and MBCT into treatment of stress and emotion regulation.
Describe the positive and negative aspects of stress.
Show experiential stress management and emotional regulation activities to use with individuals and groups.
Illustrate how mindfulness and acceptance can help regulate emotions and manage stress.
Prepare valuable handouts and worksheets to help your client manage stress and regulate emotion.

Outline:
Stress and Emotion Regulation
Myth busting
Stress carriers vs. stress managers
3 communication styles

CBT
Disputing stress producing thoughts
Mood logs
Stress producing thoughts
Coping Cards
Managing Stress

DBT
The self soothe kit - example of distress tolerance
Radical acceptance strategies
Observing mindfully activity
Interpersonal skill building with DEAR MAN
Diary keeping

ACT
Quicksand metaphor
Hungry tiger metaphor
Floating leaves imagery
Defusion techniques - watching your thinking
Eating mindfully
The bulls eye for clarifying values
Finger trap visualization

MBCT
Mindfulness practice
Home based daily practice examples
Doing vs. Being

Stress Management & Emotion Regulation Activities
Stress is….. Exercise for individuals and groups
Emotion regulation activities
Reduce relationship stress by improving communication
Communication role play
Listening/perception exercise
Conflict resolution exercise
Treating yourself and each other as good as an egg
4 C’s of Hardiness
Metaphorical Toolkit
Construct stress reduction toolkit

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