Emotion Regulation is currently one of the most popular topics in clinical psychology. Numerous
studies demonstrate that deficits in emotion regulation skills are likely to help maintain
various forms of psychological disorders. Thus enhancing emotion regulation has become a major
target in psychotherapeutic treatments. For this purpose a number of therapeutic strategies
have been developed and shown to be effective. However for practitioners it is often difficult
to decide which of these strategies they should use or how they can effectively combine
empirically-validated strategies. Thus the authors developed the Affect Regulation Training as
a transdiagnostic intervention which systematically integrates strategies from cognitive
behavior therapy mindfulness-based interventions emotion-focused therapy and dialectical
behavioral therapy. The effectiveness of ART has been demonstrated in several high-quality
studies.
