Master Your Emotions with Emotion Efficacy Therapy
Channel: Doc Snipes
Date: 2016-10-18

Emotion Efficacy therapy combines the best of DBT, ACT & Exposure Therapy to help people implement new coping strategies even when under stress or in crisis.

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What is Emotion Efficacy Therapy
~    An 8-Session protocol
~    Targets the transdiagnostic drivers of low emotion efficacy in people with emotion dysregulation, anxiety, depression, stress, and impulsivity
~    The philosophical premise of EET is that while pain is unavoidable, suffering is not.
~    EET skills focus on increasing distress tolerance and decreasing emotion avoidance. Using five components— emotion awareness, mindful acceptance, values- based action, mindful coping, and exposure-based skills practice

~    Because learning and memory are created through the encoding of experiences, it follows that utilizing all sensory and perceptual components (cognitive, somatic, and affective) is essential for new learning.
~    In EET, transemotional learning occurs through the activation of all emotional components— thoughts, sensations, feelings, and urges— to build neural pathways around new behaviors.
~    EET leverages state- dependent learning through exposure, 
~     EET is based on research of three foundational ideas for its treatment structure and content
~    A transdiagnostic approach is the most effective way to treat clients with emotion problems
~    Transemotional learning, which involves all four components of emotion, is essential to learning
~    New learning is enhanced in an activated state
~    There are more commonalities than differences across diagnostic disorders, underscoring the need for transdiagnostic approaches to treatment (McEvoy, Nathan, & Norton, 2009).
~    Transdiagnostic formulation identifies and targets the mechanisms driving the symptoms (as opposed to the symptoms themselves) as a focus of intervention.
~    Transdiagnostic approaches allow for a single therapy for clients who present with a wide range of symptoms
Goals of Treatment
~    Power to experience themselves as distinct from their emotions
~    Power to experience intense emotions, instead of reacting and avoiding
~    Power to choose values- based action, even when emotionally triggered
~    Power to choose strategies to downregulate emotion and keep from making difficult situations worse
~    Apply to the following
~    Anger
~    Addiction
~    Self-harm

Vulnerabilities for Low Emotional Efficacy
~    Biological predisposition/sensitivity causing high levels of reactivity
~    High emotionality or experiential avoidance of uncomfortable sensations, emotions, and cognitions triggered by internal or external cues
~    Significant levels of distress intolerance
~    Significant lack of emotion- shifting/downregulate skills
~    Consistent and significant socially invalidating environments
~    Lack of understanding of their emotional experience
~    Ineffective tools to either tolerate difficult emotions, make values- consistent choices, or regulate their emotions.
5 Components of EET
~    Emotional Awareness
~    Thoughts, feelings, sensations, urges
~    Mindful Acceptance
~    Nonjudgmental acceptance
~    Values-Based Action
~    Proactive choice vs. reactive avoidance
~    Mindful Coping
~    Coping skills are usually used to avoid or change aversive emotion
~    Mindful coping helps clients expand their choices, so they can choose values- based action.
~    Exposure based skills practice

Typical Session
~    Mindful acceptance skills practice
~    Skills practice review and troubleshooting challenges
~    Review of previous week’s psychoeducation and skill
~    Psychoeducation on new skill
~    Practice of new skill
~    Imaginal or emotion exposure using new skill
~    Homework via skills practice record

Emotion Awareness
~    Emotions encompass
~    Thoughts
~    Feelings
~    Physical sensations
~    Behavioral urges
~    Emotions can be contextually unhelpful or helpful
~    Emotions are messages sent by the brain to help respond to perceived threats and opportunities.
~    Emotions are not the “truth”
~    Emotions urge us to action
~    Trigger Identification/Emotional Reaction Worksheet
Mindful Acceptance

0:00 Introduction
0:49 Objectives
2:22 What is Emotion Efficacy Therapy
8:36 Summary of the Foundation
25:51 5 Components of EET Emotional Awareness
30:13 Emotion Awareness Emotions encompass
37:04 Moment of Choice
38:13 Emotion Surfing 5 Key Abilities
39:38 Values Based Action
43:37 Relaxation and Self Soothing
44:58 Coping Thoughts
46:48 Radical Acceptance
47:45 Distraction Time Out