Handbook
Emotional Regulation and Resilience Intelligence
Support non-clinical emotional awareness, stress regulation, coping choices, support activation, and recovery routines while recognizing when professional or emergency help is needed.
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Definition
Support non-clinical emotional awareness, stress regulation, coping choices, support activation, and recovery routines while recognizing when professional or emergency help is needed.
Coverage role
Everyday stress, conflict, overload, and change affect judgment and functioning across all life domains.
Scope
Included
- emotion labeling
- trigger and load mapping
- low-risk grounding
- coping plans
- stressor preparation
- support activation
- red-flag routing
Excluded and non-goals
- diagnosis
- psychotherapy
- medication advice
- crisis counseling without proper services
- creating dependency on the assistant
Boundary rules
- Route to life.emotional-regulation-resilience when the requested outcome requires one or more declared capabilities and the output can be represented by its canonical artifacts.
- Route to an adjacent or specialist intelligence when domain-specific rules, tools, or professional authority dominate the problem.
- Use general.reasoning to coordinate multi-pack conflicts, hard constraints, uncertainty, and decision status.
- Return ask, defer, or escalate when required context, source authority, consent, or accountable ownership is missing.
Capability semantics
| Capability ID | Name | Semantic intent |
|---|---|---|
capability.life.emotional-regulation-resilience.check_in_and_label |
Check In And Label | Identify emotions, bodily signals, thoughts, triggers, needs, and current functioning without diagnosis. |
capability.life.emotional-regulation-resilience.map_triggers_and_load |
Map Triggers And Load | Identify situational, relational, physical, and workload factors that increase or reduce distress. |
capability.life.emotional-regulation-resilience.select_regulation_option |
Select Regulation Option | Offer low-risk, time-bounded grounding, breathing, sensory, movement, or pause options. |
capability.life.emotional-regulation-resilience.build_coping_plan |
Build Coping Plan | Combine small practical actions, support, rest, routines, and boundaries. |
capability.life.emotional-regulation-resilience.prepare_for_stressor |
Prepare For Stressor | Create a before-during-after plan for a predictable challenge. |
capability.life.emotional-regulation-resilience.activate_support |
Activate Support | Identify trusted people and verified services and prepare a clear request for help. |
capability.life.emotional-regulation-resilience.recognize_escalation |
Recognize Escalation | Detect immediate danger, severe impairment, abuse, or crisis and route safely. |
Canonical artifact concepts
| Artifact type | Structural category | Semantic purpose |
|---|---|---|
artifact.life.emotional-regulation-resilience.wellbeing_check_in |
context_profile | Wellbeing Check In for Emotional Regulation and Resilience Intelligence: A bounded context profile that separates observations, preferences, constraints, uncertainty, time scope, and next questions. It supports the pack purpose of support non-clinical emotional awareness, stress regulation, coping choices, support activation, and recovery routines while recognizing when professional or emergency help is needed. |
artifact.life.emotional-regulation-resilience.trigger_and_load_map |
model | Trigger And Load Map for Emotional Regulation and Resilience Intelligence: A purpose-bounded representation of entities, relationships, assumptions, boundaries, and evidence of adequacy. It supports the pack purpose of support non-clinical emotional awareness, stress regulation, coping choices, support activation, and recovery routines while recognizing when professional or emergency help is needed. |
artifact.life.emotional-regulation-resilience.regulation_menu |
structured_output | Regulation Menu for Emotional Regulation and Resilience Intelligence: A typed domain output that preserves purpose, context, evidence, assumptions, status, and next action. It supports the pack purpose of support non-clinical emotional awareness, stress regulation, coping choices, support activation, and recovery routines while recognizing when professional or emergency help is needed. |
artifact.life.emotional-regulation-resilience.coping_plan |
plan | Coping Plan for Emotional Regulation and Resilience Intelligence: A governed action design that sequences work, ownership, dependencies, timing, contingencies, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support non-clinical emotional awareness, stress regulation, coping choices, support activation, and recovery routines while recognizing when professional or emergency help is needed. |
artifact.life.emotional-regulation-resilience.stressor_plan |
plan | Stressor Plan for Emotional Regulation and Resilience Intelligence: A governed action design that sequences work, ownership, dependencies, timing, contingencies, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support non-clinical emotional awareness, stress regulation, coping choices, support activation, and recovery routines while recognizing when professional or emergency help is needed. |
artifact.life.emotional-regulation-resilience.support_map |
model | Support Map for Emotional Regulation and Resilience Intelligence: A purpose-bounded representation of entities, relationships, assumptions, boundaries, and evidence of adequacy. It supports the pack purpose of support non-clinical emotional awareness, stress regulation, coping choices, support activation, and recovery routines while recognizing when professional or emergency help is needed. |
artifact.life.emotional-regulation-resilience.escalation_route |
decision | Escalation Route for Emotional Regulation and Resilience Intelligence: A bounded decision or routing record that exposes alternatives, governing constraints, evidence, rationale, ownership, status, and reopening conditions. It supports the pack purpose of support non-clinical emotional awareness, stress regulation, coping choices, support activation, and recovery routines while recognizing when professional or emergency help is needed. |
artifact.life.emotional-regulation-resilience.support_activation_record |
ledger | Support Activation Record for Emotional Regulation and Resilience Intelligence: A controlled collection of uniquely identified entries with ownership, provenance, status, and review state. It supports the pack purpose of support non-clinical emotional awareness, stress regulation, coping choices, support activation, and recovery routines while recognizing when professional or emergency help is needed. |
Method families and limits
| Method ID | Method | Use when | Avoid when |
|---|---|---|---|
method.life.emotional-regulation-resilience.emotion_labeling |
emotion labeling | Use for non-emergency reflection, regulation, coping, or support activation when the person retains agency and the method fits their preferences and context. | Avoid implying diagnosis or treatment, forcing a technique, minimizing distress, or delaying crisis, abuse, or medical escalation. |
method.life.emotional-regulation-resilience.brief_grounding |
brief grounding | Use for non-emergency reflection, regulation, coping, or support activation when the person retains agency and the method fits their preferences and context. | Avoid implying diagnosis or treatment, forcing a technique, minimizing distress, or delaying crisis, abuse, or medical escalation. |
method.life.emotional-regulation-resilience.paced_problem_solving |
paced problem solving | Use when a person benefits from small practical steps, emotional acknowledgment, choice, and support without turning distress into a purely logistical problem. | Avoid pushing action before safety and readiness, minimizing grief or distress, making the person responsible for unavailable support, or delaying professional help. |
method.life.emotional-regulation-resilience.optional_cognitive_reappraisal |
optional cognitive reappraisal | Use for non-emergency reflection, regulation, coping, or support activation when the person retains agency and the method fits their preferences and context. | Avoid implying diagnosis or treatment, forcing a technique, minimizing distress, or delaying crisis, abuse, or medical escalation. |
method.life.emotional-regulation-resilience.small_meaningful_action |
small meaningful action | Use for non-emergency reflection, regulation, coping, or support activation when the person retains agency and the method fits their preferences and context. | Avoid implying diagnosis or treatment, forcing a technique, minimizing distress, or delaying crisis, abuse, or medical escalation. |
method.life.emotional-regulation-resilience.support_network_planning |
support-network planning | Use for non-emergency reflection, regulation, coping, or support activation when the person retains agency and the method fits their preferences and context. | Avoid implying diagnosis or treatment, forcing a technique, minimizing distress, or delaying crisis, abuse, or medical escalation. |
Pack-specific invariants
The pack also inherits the core invariants in core/core_invariants.yaml.
| Invariant ID | Statement | Failure action |
|---|---|---|
invariant.life.emotional-regulation-resilience.01_distress_is_never_framed_as_personal_failure |
Distress is never framed as personal failure. | fail_or_repair |
invariant.life.emotional-regulation-resilience.02_crisis_and_safeguarding_override_productivity_goals |
Crisis and safeguarding override productivity goals. | fail_or_repair |
invariant.life.emotional-regulation-resilience.03_the_assistant_may_not_position_itself_as_the_user_s_sole_s |
The assistant may not position itself as the user's sole support. | fail_or_repair |
Dependencies and relations
Operational general intelligences: None
Foundation concepts: general.affective-self-regulation, general.metacognitive, general.collaborative-social, general.ethical-normative, general.planning-execution
Life intelligences: life.mental-health-help-seeking, life.relationships-intimacy-conflict, life.sleep-recovery-energy
Source roles
| Source ID | Claim roles | Runtime resolution required |
|---|---|---|
ec.lifecomp |
competence_framework, concept_definition, evaluation_dimension | True |
who.mental_health |
concept_definition, health_or_safety_boundary, population_guidance | True |
local.authority |
jurisdiction_rule, runtime_fact, service_or_community_context | True |
Risk and authority boundary
Risk class: high
- Immediate danger or inability to stay safe.
- Severe or persistent distress or major functional decline.
- Abuse or safeguarding concerns.
Accountable people retain consent, value, regulated, irreversible, and residual-risk decisions. This semantic page does not claim a deployed implementation.
Maturity
semantic: S3_reviewable_definition
contract: C3_testable_contract
implementation: I0_not_included
evidence: E2_source_roles_mapped
governance: G2_controls_and_review_defined
overlay: O2_paired_seed_complete
Paired overlay
Runtime maturity
- Capabilities: 7
- Technical floor→ceiling:
I1_runtime→I1_runtime - Autonomy floor→ceiling:
A0_assisted→A0_assisted - I1_runtime count: 7
- Evidence class:
contract: 7 - Full hierarchy: MATURITY-HIERARCHY.md
Evaluation suite status
- CI status:
pass - Suite:
evaluation_suites/emotional-regulation-resilience.yaml - Cases defined: 7
- Capabilities under test: 7