ABSTRACT
Cognitive Remediation and Emotion Skills Training (CREST) takes an interactive approach to helping participants think about emotions. The main novel interventions used in CREST focus on: emotion awareness, emotion regulation, emotion processing skills, promoting micro skills in social communication and self-regulation/self-awareness. CREST was initially designed in an individual format to offer support to patients in the inpatient treatment programme who are physically and medically compromised and find it difficult to engage in psychological treatment. The chapter analyses all responses for overlapping themes and it became apparent that the main difficulties named by all parties were in recognising and regulating one's own emotions. It also provides a manual for an individual format of therapy aiming to improve recognition and expression of emotions, which was evaluated using qualitative feedback from patients. The chapter outlines a five-session group protocol, demonstrating patients feedback which suggests that they would like to extend the number of sessions.
