Full Description
Change in Emotion and Mental Health provides conceptual, experimental, and methodological advances concerning the multiple roles of "change" in affective sciences, and also in developmental psychology, psychopathology, and psychotherapy, by adopting a focus on emotion and mental health. The volume is organized in three parts: 1) Fundamental mechanisms of change in emotion, 2) Developmental changes, and 3) Changes in psychotherapy. Each part includes five chapters on five functional domains:
1. Emotion awareness and understanding
2. Appraisal and reappraisal
3. Emotion regulation
4. Emotion memories
5. Emotion competencies and transformation
Contents
1. Changing feelings: Individual differences in emotional inertia
2. If it changes, it must be an emotion process: Micro or macro
3. Changing the emotion process: The role of emotion regulation
4. Changes and stabilities in emotional memories
5. Changing emotions and emotional competencies: Interventions in non-clinical settings
6. Children's understanding of mind and emotion: Implications for mental health
7. How appraisal development shapes the development of emotion
8. Changes in emotion regulation across the life span
9. Memory, emotion, and mental health in developmental, cultural, and digital contexts
10. Experience-dependent neurodevelopment of affective learning and regulation in adolescence
11. Emotional awareness and processing in (psychodynamic) psychotherapy
12. Change in emotion appraisal and reappraisal in psychotherapy
13. Emotion regulation as a mechanism of change in psychotherapy
14. Reconsolidation of emotional memories in psychotherapy: How corrective emotional experiences facilitate enduring change
15. Changing emotion with emotion
16. Summary of the recommendations for research on change in emotion and mental health
17. Preparing the next generation of studies on change in emotion and mental health
