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For more information on Emotion Regulation Therapy, please contact:

Dr. Douglas Mennin (Teachers College, Columbia University)
mennin@tc.columbia.edu
READ Lab

Dr. David M. Fresco (University of Michigan)
fresco@umich.edu
Faculty Page | Michigan Mindfulness | Data Science for Dynamic Intervention Decision-making Center (d3center)

Emotion Regulation Therapy (ERT) is a recently developed and preliminarily supported manualized treatment for Generalized Anxiety Disorder that integrates components of cognitive-behavioral, acceptance, dialectical, mindfulness-based, and experiential, emotion-focused, treatments.

This mechanism-targeted behavioral intervention is based in an affect-science perspective, and focuses on the training of a number of regulatory skills including attentional flexibility, acceptance, cognitive distancing, and cognitive reframing as well as experiential exposure to contexts of perceived reward and risk.

To date, the efficacy of ERT has been demonstrated in recently concluded NIMH-funded trials including an open trial and a randomized clinical trial. Evaluation of efficacy and investigation of treatment mechanisms is on-going in clinics at CUNY Hunter College and Kent State University.

Dr. Douglas S. Mennin
Teachers College, Columbia University
mennin@tc.columbia.edu

Dr. David M. Fresco
University of Michigan
fresco@umich.edu