Chapter 1: Emotion Efficacy Therapy
Emotion Efficacy Therapy: Foundational Elements
Transdiagnostic Treatment to Treat Low Emotion Efficacy
Transemotional Learning as the Key to Change
Exposure-Based Skills Practice to Improve Learning, Retention, and Recall
Emotion Efficacy Therapy Protocol
Exposure-Based Skills Practice
How Is Emotion Efficacy Therapy Unique?
Orienting Clients to Treatment
Psychoeducation on Mindful Acceptance
How Emotion Avoidance Keeps Emotion at High Intensity
How Rumination Keeps Emotion at High Intensity
How Emotion-Driven Behavior Intensifies Emotion
Chapter 5: Values-Based Action, Part 1
Accessing Values During Distress
Chapter 6: Values-Based Action, Part 2
Setting Up the Monsters on the Bus Exercise
Imaginal Exposure Using Values-Based Action
Conducting Imaginal Exposure with VBA
Chapter 7: Relaxation and Self-Soothing
Introducing Mindful Coping to Clients
Mindful Coping with Relaxation
Mindful Coping with Self-Soothing
Using Mindful Coping Outside Session
Chapter 8: Coping Thoughts and Radical Acceptance
Mindful Coping with Coping Thoughts
Chapter 9: Distraction and Time-Out
Mindful Coping with Distraction
Chapter 10: Pulling It All Together
Potential Treatment Challenges and Opportunities
Difficulty with Specific Skills
Increased Awareness and Demoralization
Tailoring Treatment for Clients, aka “The Stretch”
Appendix A: Outcome Measures for Assessment
Appendix B: Research and Results
Appendix C: EET Eight-Session Protocol
1. Welcome and administration of pretreatment measures
2. Introduction of leader and group members
3. Overview of EET treatment and structure
4. Psychoeducation on emotions and emotion awareness
6. Introduction to skills practice and the Skills Practice Record
7. Session 1 skills assignment
2. Psychoeducation on mindful acceptance
3. Mindful acceptance practice
4. Introduction to emotion avoidance
5. Psychoeducation on emotion surfing
6. Psychoeducation on exposure and practice
7. Session 2 skills assignment
EET Session 3: O + A + Choose VBA
1. Mindful acceptance practice and feedback
3. Psychoeducation on the moment of choice
4. Introduction to values-based action
5. Whiteboard exercise with values and emotional barriers
6. VBA using imaginal exposure and feedback
7. Session 3 skills assignment
EET Session 4: O + A + Choose VBA
1. Mindful acceptance practice and feedback
3. Monsters on the Bus exercise
4. VBA using imaginal exposure and feedback
5. Session 4 skills assignment
EET Session 5: O + A + Choose Mindful Coping
1. Mindful acceptance practice and feedback
3. Psychoeducation on mindful coping
4. Introduction to relaxation and self-soothing
5. Relaxation skills practice with emotion exposure and feedback
6. Self-soothing skills practice with emotion exposure and feedback
7. Session 5 skills assignment
EET Session 6: O + A + Choose Mindful Coping
1. Mindful acceptance practice and feedback
3. Psychoeducation on coping thoughts
4. Coping thoughts practice with emotion exposure and feedback
5. Psychoeducation on radical acceptance
6. Radical acceptance practice with emotion exposure and feedback
7. Session 6 skills assignment
EET Session 7: O + A + Choose Mindful Coping
1. Mindful acceptance practice and feedback
3. Psychoeducation on distraction and time-out
4. Distraction with imaginal or emotion exposure and feedback
5. Introduction to Personalized Emotion Efficacy Plan
6. Session 7 skills assignment
1. Mindful acceptance practice and feedback
3. Review of Personalized Emotion Efficacy Plans, feedback, and troubleshooting
4. Imaginal or emotion exposure with EET skill and feedback
6. Closing remarks and appreciations