Emotion-regulation training reduces distress and changes the brain, team reports

A five-week training intervention taught college students to better regulate their emotions in response to negative events, a new study finds. After the training, the students reported less emotional distress when viewing negative images or thinking about difficult events in their own lives, and brain scans revealed corresponding changes in the spontaneous func

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training makes people better at what they trained for damn

SCIENCE said:

training makes people better at what they trained for damn

It sounds simple, emotional intelligence is the ability to be aware of your emotional state, so you can regulate any emotions that are becoming elevated, by bringing them back down to nominal.

But it’s difficult to remember during an argument or conflict.

Training helps with that.

Tau.Neutrino said:

SCIENCE said:

training makes people better at what they trained for damn

It sounds simple, emotional intelligence is the ability to be aware of your emotional state, so you can regulate any emotions that are becoming elevated, by bringing them back down to nominal.

But it’s difficult to remember during an argument or conflict.

Training helps with that.

Recognising, awareness, training. Autistic people, even adults, sometimes don’t recognise when they are becoming dysregulated. With children, we have explicit teaching of facial expressions – what happy looks like, anger, sad etc. We have a chart to check in with kids in the mornings, “how are you feeling today?” and they point to an emoji. It helps with recognition, which is the first step.

Divine Angel said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

SCIENCE said:

training makes people better at what they trained for damn

It sounds simple, emotional intelligence is the ability to be aware of your emotional state, so you can regulate any emotions that are becoming elevated, by bringing them back down to nominal.

But it’s difficult to remember during an argument or conflict.

Training helps with that.

Recognising, awareness, training. Autistic people, even adults, sometimes don’t recognise when they are becoming dysregulated. With children, we have explicit teaching of facial expressions – what happy looks like, anger, sad etc. We have a chart to check in with kids in the mornings, “how are you feeling today?” and they point to an emoji. It helps with recognition, which is the first step.

Yes, autistic people handle emotions differently and it’s easy to forget emotion training when arguments are infrequent.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Divine Angel said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

It sounds simple, emotional intelligence is the ability to be aware of your emotional state, so you can regulate any emotions that are becoming elevated, by bringing them back down to nominal.

But it’s difficult to remember during an argument or conflict.

Training helps with that.

Recognising, awareness, training. Autistic people, even adults, sometimes don’t recognise when they are becoming dysregulated. With children, we have explicit teaching of facial expressions – what happy looks like, anger, sad etc. We have a chart to check in with kids in the mornings, “how are you feeling today?” and they point to an emoji. It helps with recognition, which is the first step.

Yes, autistic people handle emotions differently and it’s easy to forget emotion training when arguments are infrequent.

If the fight, flight, freeze and fawn take over then the prefrontal cortex shuts down. So there’s no thinking going on.

ms spock said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Divine Angel said:

Recognising, awareness, training. Autistic people, even adults, sometimes don’t recognise when they are becoming dysregulated. With children, we have explicit teaching of facial expressions – what happy looks like, anger, sad etc. We have a chart to check in with kids in the mornings, “how are you feeling today?” and they point to an emoji. It helps with recognition, which is the first step.

Yes, autistic people handle emotions differently and it’s easy to forget emotion training when arguments are infrequent.

If the fight, flight, freeze and fawn take over then the prefrontal cortex shuts down. So there’s no thinking going on.

This webinar literally recommended self-regulation and CBT just as I read your comment. There’s no cognition happening, it’s all reactive.

Divine Angel said:

ms spock said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Yes, autistic people handle emotions differently and it’s easy to forget emotion training when arguments are infrequent.

If the fight, flight, freeze and fawn take over then the prefrontal cortex shuts down. So there’s no thinking going on.

This webinar literally recommended self-regulation and CBT just as I read your comment. There’s no cognition happening, it’s all reactive.

I actually trained with Dr David Burns who is one of the three co founders of CBT. He’s just retired. You can make age appropriate CBT tools for kids using emoticons like you do for emotion recognition.