Psychotherapeutic interventions for emotion regulation : EMDR and bilateral stimulation for affect management

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Title:

Author:

Omaha, John.

ISBN:

9780393703955

Personal Author:

Omaha, John.

Publication Information:

New York : W.W. Norton, 2004.

Physical Description:

p. cm.

Contents:

Introduction : toward an affect centered therapy -- Pt. I. Emotion regulation in health and disorder -- 1. Emotion regulation : the foundation of self -- 2. Development of a healthy self structure -- 3. Causes and effects of emotion dysregulation -- 4. Emotion dysregulation in clinical and personality disorders -- Pt. II. Affect management skills training -- 5. AMST foundations : therapeutic goals, theoretical and technical frameworks -- 6. Skill I : containment -- 7. Skill II : safe place -- 8. Skill III : sensation - affect identification -- 9. Skill IV : sensation as signal, skill V : grounded and present, skill VI : nothing -- 10. Skill VII : regulation -- 11. Advanced skills -- 12. Phase II skills : uncovering and resolving causes of affect dysregulation -- App. A. AMST worksheet -- App. B. AMST flow diagram and decision tree.

Abstract:

"In Psychotherapeutic Interventions for Emotion Regulation, John Omaha synthesizes a vast range of information about affect regulation and presents an intervention, Affect Management Skills Training (AMST), that can be used with clients to regulate affects. The result is an innovative approach to therapy, Affect Centered Therapy (ACT)."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing.

Emotions.

Neuropsychiatry.

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Summary

Along with cognitions, drives, and behavior, affects are one of the modalities that must be interpreted by theory and embraced by therapy in understanding both normal and pathological personality development. Here, John Omaha synthesizes a vast range of information about affect regulation and presents for readers an intervention, Affect Management Skills Training (AMST), that can be used with clients to regulate affects.

The first four chapters of this book assemble current empirical and theoretical information about affect into an overall picture of how self-structure emerges in infancy, and what can happen when the infant-caregiver dyad malfunctions. The second part of the book is the center of Omaha's work where he presents clinical skills for psychotherapeutic interventions for affect regulation that are the focus of the book. The seven basic and several ancillary AMST interventions are designed to help clients remediate deficits in affect regulation and to promote the emergence of a more adaptive, positively functioning self. AMST, a bilateral stimulation protocol derived from EMDR, will be of interest to all clinicians working with clients who need to work on affect regulation.