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STAIR is short for: Skills Training in Affect and Interpersonal Regulation
STAIR is an evidence-based approach which has been designed for people who have had trauma, and who find regulating their emotions difficult, and find interpersonal relationships hard. Over time, this approach has broadened to apply to people with a range of traumatic experiences and symptoms.
Why is STAIR helpful for trauma?
Traumatic experiences can take many forms; they can be singular or multiple, similar or varied, and can occur just once or over extended periods of time. No one person will experience the same event in the same way, so what might be traumatic for one person, is not for another.
Trauma can overwhelm the emotional system, creating both emotional chaos and numbing, undermining our ability to think and act effectively, and disturbing our sense of self and our relationships. Research has shown that children who have experienced trauma can go on to have difficulties in managing emotions and relationships as adults.
The coping and interpersonal skills developed in childhood might have been adaptive and necessary at the time but may no longer be adaptive, healthy or helpful later in adult life.
The skills training in STAIR are designed to help you leave behind old patterns and develop new interpersonal behaviours and emotion management skills more consistent with your current life goals.
STAIR is an approach that is focussed on learning skills to manage emotions and improve relationships.
What are the goals of STAIR?
- Emotional awareness - increasing awareness of emotions
- Emotional regulation - building coping skills to handle difficult emotions and distress
- Distress tolerance - building skills around emotionally engaged living and starting to make decisions based on relationship or personal goals, rather than feeling states
- Understanding relationship patterns – recognising patterns in our relationships and interactions
- Changing relationships patterns - creating healthy alternatives to unhelpful patterns
- Developing self-compassion – moving on to healthy ways of interacting and coping.
If you, or someone you know, has been affected by trauma, and you think that STAIR Therapy can help, contact us to arrange a consultation.
Disclaimer: All blog content is for information only and is not mental health treatment.
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