Emotion Regulation Skills - VIDEO 1 - QUIZ

Model for Describing Emotions

• The model aims to enhance understanding of emotions and how they exist within a system of physical, cognitive, and behavioral happenings.
• The example used in the model is a baby waking up for the third time in a given night at 4 am.
• A prompting event requires attention and awareness to activate the whole system of emotions.
• Different vulnerability factors can affect perception of a prompting event, such as lack of sleep, hunger, work stress, or fighting with a partner.
• Interpretation, thoughts, assumptions, and beliefs can shape emotional reactions to a prompting event.
• Biological changes and expressions occur as soon as a prompting event happens, including nervous system changes, different sensations, and action urges.
• Skills such as distress tolerance, opposite action, and mindfulness of body sensations can help decrease common vulnerability factors and regulate biological changes.
• Expressing emotions through body language, words, and actions can influence the experience of emotions and the biological changes that occur.
• The way we express emotions can also influence our interpretation of a given event.
• Naming an emotion is necessary to move forward in the system, and emotion labeling can help regulate emotions.
• After-effects associated with emotions, such as narrowed attention or physiological responses, can occur.
• Understanding physiological changes and after-effects of different emotions can help regulate emotions.