Promoting Emotional Resilience: Cognitive-Affective Stress Management Training

By James C. Ascough and Ronald E. Smith

Grounded in extensive research, this book presents a brief emotion-focused coping skills program that helps clients regulate their affective responses in stressful situations. Cognitive-affective stress management training (CASMT) promotes resilience by integrating cognitive-behavioral strategies with relaxation training, mindfulness, and other techniques. Systematic guidelines are provided for implementing CASMT with individuals or groups. The book includes detailed instructions for using induced affect, a procedure that elicits arousal in session and enables clients to practice new emotion regulation skills. Purchasers get access to a companion website where they can download and print the volume's 16 reproducible handouts and forms in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size, and can also download a muscle relaxation training audio track.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1462526314
• ISBN13: 9781462526314
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 4.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.0"