“This compelling and potent book not only illuminates exactly how emotions shape your choices for better and for worse, it also helps you tap the power of infinite games to play your way to being the best version of yourself in any moment. Dr. West takes the reader through a state of the art evidence-based skills training to harness choice points by decoding emotions, overriding unhelpful defaults, rewiring unhelpful patterns and making values-based moves—even in the face of intense stress, challenge and pain. Reflections and experiential learning opportunities throughout the book help you lock in the learning and level up. By increasing your emotional efficacy you’ll learn to become the hero of your own story, transforming what’s possible for you and the future you’re living into.”
Research suggests that over 75% of clients who seek therapy suffer from chronic emotional reactivity or emotional over-control often struggle with clinical levels of psychopathology. And, in the workplace, the ability to manage emotions is ranked by both staff and managers as critical to self-awareness, self-control, flexibility, teaming, motivation, interpersonal relationships, time management and overall all work environment. This makes your level of emotional efficacy critical to wellbeing and performance.
Clients need help developing the emotional intelligence, psychological flexibility and resilience to enact new, adaptive, more workable behaviors in the face of emotional stress, challenge and pain. Increasing emotion efficacy allows people to create lives that are increasingly intentional, flexible and creative. For more info on What You Feel Is Not All There Is click here.
“In What You Feel Is Not All There Is, Dr. Aprilia West offers a stimulating guide for how readers can achieve meaningful engagement in every aspect of our lives, simply by mastering our relationship with our emotions. In doing so, Dr. West brings to bear her expertise as a psychologist, a coach, and a consultant to make the most impactful technologies of several empirically-based behavioral treatments available in a series of straightforward lessons and powerful exercises. The “Learnings” and “Challenges” at the end of each chapter make the text easy to use as a reference, and even the most psychologically savvy reader will find themselves returning to the text to they cultivate improved emotional efficacy. By the end of the book, what becomes possible is approaching life as a series of new and potentially, valued choices, by playing ‘infinite games’ in any moment.”
Multiple studies suggest EET is effective for significantly increasing emotion regulation, distress tolerance, increasing values-based action and more.
The clinician’s guide to Emotion Efficacy Therapy (EET) is a step by step guide for professionals who want t learn how to deliver the 8-session EET protocol in an individual or group format. Each session includes psychoeducation, worksheets and handouts and therapist/clients scripts to teach the four modules: Emotion Awareness, Mindful Acceptance, Values-based Action and Mindful Coping. Providers will also learn how to use experiential skills training to help skills "stick" when clients become emotionally triggered outside of session.
The guide contains psychoeducation, therapist-client scripts, handouts and worksheets, emotion efficacy experiential scripts and a structured guide for delivering the training in an individual or group format.
“This book is a must read for any therapist who wants to work with emotionally dysregulated clients in a time-effective fashion...It is so well organized that any clinicians could use it off the shelf to deliver a highly effective emotion regulation treatment!”
“A structured program rich with useful tools, handouts for clients, clinical examples, and guidance for specific issues. This is an extremely well-considered, conceptualized, and thorough book—useful for clinicians at any level. Highly recommended.”
To learn how to use EET with your clients, purchase the clinicians' guide here: Emotion Efficacy Therapy: A Brief Exposure-Based Treatment for Emotion Regulation Integrating ACT & DBT. You can also find info on EET trainings and read an interview about EET with Dr. Aprilia West here.