Emotional Dysregulation Disorder

At an emotional dysregulation UK rehab, clients will get a chance to undergo one or more of the following therapies to control their emotions and stabilise their mental state.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

Cognitive behavioural therapy helps people with emotional dysregulation develop distress tolerance and coping skills. As part of this therapy, clinical psychologists use certain methods to teach clients to regulate their moods by effectively identifying and overcoming negative triggers.

Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)

Dialectical behavioural therapy combines the CBT principles with the concepts of distress tolerance, mindful awareness, and acceptance to support recovery. This therapy is so effective in the treatment of emotional dysregulation that it is often chosen as the first-line therapy for clients with emotional dysregulation disorder.

Schema Therapy

Schema therapy serves as a unified, long-term treatment approach to regulating emotions. This therapy aims to identify negative emotional and behavioural patterns, break them down, and replace them with healthier ones.

Emotion Regulation Therapy (ERT)

Emotion Regulation Therapy is a manualised treatment, integrating the components of acceptance, cognitive-behavioural dialectical, mindfulness-based, and treatments. It utilises a mechanistic framework formulated using basic and translational findings picked from multiple clinical trials that enable individuals to:

• recognise, describe, and differentiate their emotions, even when they are too intense
• Increase acceptance of an experience and develop the ability to manage the emotions related to it, when necessary, adaptively
• Reduce the use of emotional avoidance strategies (for example, worry, self-criticism, and rumination)
• Utilise emotional information in recognising needs, making decisions, and managing interpersonal relationships

During the initial phases of ERT, the goal of treatment is to attain emotional tolerance and awareness so that you can start catching yourself reacting in a particular moment. As a part of ERT, clients practice mindfulness of emotions daily. Meditations are essential to this therapy to help clients gain perspective on complicated feelings, moments, and beliefs.

The latter phase of Emotion Regulation Therapy includes behavioural and exposure activation principles during and between sessions. These sessions may utilise guided imagery of featured scenarios or role-play exercises fitting a desired coping response to help clients practice how to react without getting emotionally unstable.