Table 4 Checklist of the study-specific interventions implemented in the therapy session

Today I conducted emotion-focused intervention(s)

If so, which emotion-focused interventions (empathic exploration, empathic validation, engendering of a medium degree of emotional activation, focusing, allowing and expressing emotions, biographical work, systematic evocative deduction, two-chair dialogue, empty-chair dialogue, other Emotion-focused intervention)?

Today I conducted intervention(s) to improve self-regulation (SR)

If so, which interventions fostering self-regulation (explanation of the SR-model, clarification, deliberate reflection of goals and values, derivation of ideals and norms from personal history, attention-regulation, work on self-instruction, regulation of behavior, regulation of the body, emotion-regulation, other self-regulatory interventions)?

Has it been difficult to integrate emotion-focused components into today’s therapy?

If so, which difficulties occurred?

Has it been difficult to integrate self-regulation into today’s therapy?

If so, which difficulties occurred?

Did you have reasons to not realize any study-specific interventions?

If so, which reasons would that be?