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

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.