Chapter 8 - self regulation

Question 1

Self-regulation

Answer 1

-self-management, self-control, willpower, ego strength, self-direction, resilience, adaptive flexibility
-therapeutic change is best achieved when individuals or groups acquire or strengthen and then systematically deploy the skills, resources, and knowledge structures that underlie goal-guided self- regulation.
-Most clinical disturbances reflect dysfunctional self-regulation of thought processes, emotionality, physiological responsiveness, or behaviour.

Question 2

1. Self-regulation type 1:

Answer 2

• a temporally extended process of relatively effortful mobilization of skills, resources, and strategic knowledge
• enables movement toward or away from personal goals (or subgoals)
• targeting the modulation of attention, action, thought, emotion, physiological arousal, or social exchange in a relatively flexible and situationally coordinated manner
• under conditions of stress, uncertainty, transition, novelty, conflict, or affective arousal.
•  controlled, conscious, deliberative

Question 3

2. Self-regulation type 2:

Answer 3

• a temporally limited process of relatively effortless deployment of skills, resources, and strategic knowledge that enables movement toward or away from personal goals (or subgoals) by targeting the modulation of attention, action, thought, emotion, physiological arousal, or social exchange in a relatively inflexible and situationally primed manner
• under relatively predictable, routine, nonconflicting, safe, or stable conditions.
•  automatic, implicit, nonconscious

Question 4

what self-regulation type is the focus of CBT?

Answer 4

type 1, but it can eventually become type 2

Question 5

Importance of self-regulation for therapy

Answer 5

• Many clinical disturbances reflect dysfunctional self-regulation of thought processes (e.g. catastrophizing), emotionality (e.g. borderline personality disorder), physiological responses (e.g. bodily tension) or behavior (e.g. in substance abuse). So, clients should learn skills to self-regulate (again) thoughts, emotional arousal, actions, or social exchange.
• Effective, lasting therapeutic change is best achieved when individuals acquire and apply self-regulatory skills (→ “becoming your own therapist.”)

Question 6

eight self-regulatory system

Answer 6

1) Context awareness & self-monitoring
2) error/discrepancy/uncertainty monitoring
3) negative (error) negating/error correcting feedback control
4) self-efficacy and related evaluations, appraisals and beliefs
5) goal-centered, feedforward activation
6) modulation of emotions and attention
7) Self-cuing/ self-administering consequences
8) instrumental competences (minimal level of skills necessary)