Description
This book summarizes how awareness of one's emotions, emotion regulation, emotion appraisal, emotionally laden memories, and emotional competencies influence mental health. Each component is discussed with regard to mechanisms, development, and their impact on psychotherapy. The first part of the book discusses theories linking emotional processes, psychopathology, and mental health. The second part of the book discusses the developmental pathways of change in emotional processes over the lifespan. The third part of the book discusses pathways of change in emotional processes during psychotherapy and includes different forms of treatment of psychological disorders.- Reviews how emotion affects mental health and vice versa- Identifies how emotional processing changes during psychotherapy- Examines emotion awareness and understanding, appraisal and reappraisal, regulation, memories, and emotion competencies and transformation- Includes theory and research
Table of 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
