We are unaware of interventions designed to help individuals avoid rash actions when experiencing extremely positive affect; perhaps such individuals are less likely to come to clinical attention. However, because individuals do participate in risky behaviors and may tend not to consider their long-term goals while experiencing extremely positive affect, an intervention should be developed to help individuals high in positive urgency maintain attention on their long-term goals and avoid risky or dangerous behaviors. The particular contours of such an intervention need to be worked out. It seems unlikely that efforts to dampen the extremely positive mood through distraction would be welcomed by clients, but creative efforts to argue that maintenance of one's positive mood would be facilitated by careful consideration of the consequences of prospective actions might prove useful. Certainly further theoretical development and empirical research is necessary in this area.
