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<jats:sec><jats:title>Objective</jats:title><jats:p>To develop more unified, process‐based, and disseminable psychotherapy treatments, it is important to determine whether there is consensus among therapists regarding intervention strategies.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Design</jats:title><jats:p>Because emotion regulation is a cornerstone of modern treatments and a thriving area of clinical research, we assessed therapists’ ratings of the effectiveness of commonly studied emotion regulation strategies.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods</jats:title><jats:p>Therapists (<jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 582) read eleven vignettes describing stressful scenarios and rated the effectiveness of ten emotion regulation strategies in each scenario.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results</jats:title><jats:p>Across therapists, we found general consensus regarding the most (i.e., problem‐solving) and least (i.e., concealing emotions) effective strategies. Cognitive/behavioural/third‐wave therapists rated acceptance and distraction as more effective, and emotional expression and gathering information as less effective, than other therapists, <jats:italic>F</jats:italic>s> 4.20, <jats:italic>p</jats:italic>s < .05, whereas hours of clinical experience were generally unrelated to strategy effectiveness ratings.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions</jats:title><jats:p>We discuss what these points of agreement and relative disagreement among therapists reveal about a more unified, process‐based treatment approach and how these results can guide emotion regulation research.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Practitioner points</jats:title><jats:p>
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<jats:list-item><jats:p>There is general consensus among practising therapists that problem‐solving is the most effective emotion regulation strategy and expressive suppression is the least effective.</jats:p></jats:list-item>
<jats:list-item><jats:p>However, CBT‐oriented therapists rated acceptance and distraction as more effective than non‐CBT‐oriented therapists.</jats:p></jats:list-item>
<jats:list-item><jats:p>Non‐CBT‐oriented therapists rated emotional expression and gathering information as more effective than CBT‐oriented therapists.</jats:p></jats:list-item>
<jats:list-item><jats:p>Years of experience were unrelated to ratings of emotion regulation strategy effectiveness.</jats:p></jats:list-item>
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