Emotion Regulation: Processes, Strategies, and Applications to Group Work Training and Supervision

Abstract

The complex group work environment can be overwhelming and anxiety provoking, particularly for novice group leaders. Effectively accessing and managing one's own emotions are tasks central to effective group leadership and should be primary learning objectives of group workers in training. This article provides an overview of Gross's (2001) process model of emotion regulation and recent research, details emotion regulation strategies, and discusses how the concepts apply across common components of master's-level group work training and supervision.

Keywords:

• emotion regulation
• emotion regulation strategies
• group work supervision
• group work training

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Notes on contributors

Julia Champe

Julia Champe, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of counselor education in the Department of Educational Psychology and Special Education at Southern Illinois University–Carbondale.

Jane E. Atieno Okech

Jane E. Atieno Okech, Ph.D., is an associate professor of counselor education and counseling in the Department of Leadership and Developmental Sciences at the University of Vermont.

Deborah J. Rubel

Deborah J. Rubel, Ph.D., is an associate professor of counselor education at Oregon State University.