Techniques to control emotions, Systematic

Desensitization & Covert Sensitization

Jorge Barcena BalderasGustavo Clavel López

Luis Fernando Zubieta Otero

Techniques to control emotions

EmotionsEmotions are a vital part of our everyday lives.

5 Ways to Get Your Unwanted Emotions Under Control

Select the situation

Avoid circumstances that trigger unwanted emotions

Modify the situation

Perhaps the emotion you’re trying to reduce is disappointment, but invariably something goes wrong because you've aimed too high.

Shift your attentional focus

Shifting the focus helps you feel more confident about your own skills.

Change your thoughts

Our deepest emotions are the beliefs that drive them. By changing our thoughts you may not be able to change the situation but you can change the situation is affecting you.

Change your response

If all else fails, and you can’t avoid, modify, shift your focus, or change your thoughts, the final step in emotional regulation is to get control of your response.

Systematic Desensitization

DefinitionWith systematic desensitization a person can learn to cope with objects and situations that are particularly threatening, exposing real or imaginary stimuli to produce anxiogenic response form.The technique is very effective in combating classical phobias, chronic fears, some interpersonal anxiety reactions.

The repeated stimulus presentation makes it gradually loses its ability to evoke anxiety and hence physical discomfort, emotional or cognitive.It is essential to expose real or imagined to stimuli that produce anxiety-inducing emotions form.

Steps to follow

1. Relax muscles voluntarily. (Differential or progressive relaxation).

2. Make a list of all fears or anxiety-inducing situations.

3. Build a hierarchy of anxiety-inducing scenes from lower to higher intensity of anxiety.

4. Advance through imagination or through confrontation with the feared situations in the hierarchy.

Covert Sensitization

Covert sensitization is an imagery-based procedure and it’s used to treat destructive habits

The technique consists of having the person imagine himself or herself engaging in an undesirable behavior

When this image is vivid, the person imagines an aversive consequence associated with the behavior

The purpose of treatment is to build up an aversion toward stimuli which previously served as a source of attraction.

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The technique is referred to as covert because the procedure is conducted in imagination.

The person doesn’t have to engage in the behavior but only imagine behaviors associated with particular consequences.

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The effects of treatment, however, carry over to actual behavior.

Goodbye bad habits

Hello good habits

Questions Is it important to control emotions?,

Why?

Did you feel a change to relax?

When do you do something you thinks about the consequences?

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