Regulating Your Emotions with Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a practical guide to DBT's "oppositional action" technique.
In counter-behavior therapy, we help clients develop skills to up-regulate or down-regulate their emotions as needed.
This technique helps clients who have learned to fear or avoid painful emotions develop emotional literacy.

Part A of the text describes emotion theory, how to acknowledge emotions, and how Linehan's "oppositional action" technique can be used to regulate problematic responses.
Examples, analogies, and clinical texts are provided to illustrate key points that can be shared with clients. It also demonstrates how DBT therapists conceptualize emotions through chain analysis.
Part B describes each basic emotion and its signature characteristics.
Session scenarios are presented to demonstrate how the therapist can teach counter-behaviors, facilitate behavioral rehearsal, and provide corrective feedback.
Drawing on the author's extensive experience, he also offers tips to help you address key issues specific to each emotion.

Anyone who wants to learn a behavioral approach to emotions, whether they are a psychologist, nurse, social worker, psychiatrist, counselor, cognitive therapist, correctional officer, or occupational therapist, will find this book engaging and engaging.
Those who have already received DBT training will find this book an easy way to approach emotion regulation.