Help your clients to manage strong emotions

When: Thursday 3 April 2025
Time: 9:30am–1:00pm
Duration: 3.5 hours
Location: Online

We all have strong emotions from time to time. People in alcohol and other drug treatment often experience significant difficulties with recognising and self regulating distress. The good news is that being able to recognise and self regulate emotions is a skill that can be learned. Emotion regulation is a protective factor against mental health problems, including depression and anxiety.

Understanding and managing emotions is essential to good client outcomes. In this workshop, we take the mystery out of emotions and the role of emotion regulation in alcohol and drug use. You will come away with increased knowledge of emotion regulation and the key skills to assist clients to manage their emotions in recovery.

Learn strategies to help your clients to better manage their emotions and improve resilience so they can better participate in treatment and cope with life’s stressors.

On average, participants of Emotion Regulation: Skills for managing client distress report a 56% increase in knowledge, 50% increase in skills, and 58% increase in confidence. Satisfaction is rated at 8.6/10 on average and 93% of participants would recommend this workshop to others.

Learning outcomes

• Understand how lifestyle factors can impact on a person’s ability to regulate their emotions
• Know how to explain to clients how emotions work and how they interact with thoughts and behaviours
• Identify strategies to help your clients identify triggers to strong emotions and respond effectively
• Learn key emotion regulation skills and how to integrate them into your practice

Who should attend

This is a specialist skills workshop suitable for new, experienced and advanced practitioners. This workshop is suitable for workers in low threshold and clinical settings.

Facilitator: Dr Richard Cash

“Richard is an engaging and very knowledgeable trainer. Provided good examples of how to apply the learnings in work setting. He was supportive and encouraging of participants to actively participate in the training and discussions”

- Workshop participant, 2023