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Presenter: Carolyn Daitch, PhD

Mastery and maintenance of affect regulation are often impeded by individuals? habitual knee-jerk reactions to environmental frustrations and interoceptive responses. This workshop focuses on what affect dysregulation is, how it affects our clients, and how it can be controlled through self-regulation tools, partnering habit change interventions with wellness approaches. Affect dysregulation is at the core of most clinical disorders, as well as subclinical presentations where poor emotional management negatively impacts daily functioning. The workshop introduces the STOP Solution for calming emotional flooding. The STOP Solution provides a methodical protocol of easy-to-use tools that can be applied when clients experience difficult-to-manage emotions. The tools, based on hypnosis, mindfulness and cognitive behavioral approaches, have specific and individualized applicability to the most commonly experienced triggers. Application of the tools will help clients learn to gain mastery over their emotions. In addition, participants will learn the Daily Stress Inoculation, a wellness-based approach to lessen client?s baseline hyperararousal and further aid the successful implementation of the STOP Solution.