Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology. A Transdiagnostic Approach to Etiology and Treatment

Description

Regardless of their specific diagnosis, many people seeking treatment for psychological problems have some form of difficulty in managing emotional experiences. This state-of-the-art volume explores how emotion regulation mechanisms are implicated in the etiology, development, and maintenance of psychopathology. Leading experts present current findings on emotion regulation difficulties that cut across diagnostic boundaries and present psychotherapeutic approaches in which emotion regulation is a primary target of treatment. Building crucial bridges between research and practice, chapters describe cutting-edge assessment and intervention models with broad clinical utility, such as acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness-based therapy, and behavioral activation treatment.

Table of Contents

Introduction and Overview, Denise M. Sloan and Ann M. Kring

I. Models of Emotion Regulation: Insights from Basic Science

1. Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology: A Conceptual Framework, Kelly Werner and James J. Gross

2. Development of Emotion Regulation: More Than Meets the Eye, Ross A. Thompson and Miranda Goodman

3. How We Heal What We Don’t Want to Feel: The Functional Neural Architecture of Emotion Regulation, Bryan T. Denny, Jennifer A. Silvers, and Kevin N. Ochsner

4. On the Need for Conceptual and Definitional Clarity in Emotion Regulation Research on Psychopathology, Lian Bloch, Erin K. Moran, and Ann M. Kring

II. Problems of Emotion Regulation that Span Different Disorders: Descriptions, Mechanisms, Comorbidities

5. Experiential Avoidance as a Functional Contextual Concept, Jennifer L. Boulanger, Steven C. Hayes, and Jacqueline Pistorello

6. Suppression, Kristalyn Salters-Pedneault, Maria Steenkamp, and Brett T. Litz

7. Emotion Context Sensitivity in Adaptation and Recovery, Karin G. Coifman and George A. Bonanno

8. Cognition and Emotion Regulation, Jutta Joormann, K. Lira Yoon, and Matthias Siemer

9. Goal Dysregulation in the Affective Disorders, Sheri L. Johnson, Charles S. Carver, and Daniel Fulford

10. Maximizing Positive Emotions: A Translational, Transdiagnostic Look at Positive Emotion Regulation, Daniel G. Dillon and Diego A. Pizzagalli

11. The Role of Sleep in Emotional Brain Regulation, Els van der Helm and Matthew P. Walker

III. Treatment of Problems in Emotion Regulation

12. Emotions, Emotion Regulation, and Psychological Treatment: A Unified Perspective, Christopher P. Fairholme, Christina L. Boisseau, Kristen K. Ellard, Jill T. Ehrenreich, and David H. Barlow

13. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in an Emotion Regulation Context, Sonsoles Valdivia-Salas, Sean C. Sheppard, and John P. Forsyth

14. Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation: Outcomes and Possible Mediating Mechanisms, Kathleen M. Corcoran, Norman Farb, Adam Anderson, and Zindel V. Segal

15. Emotion Regulation as an Integrative Framework for Understanding and Treating Psychopathology, Douglas S. Mennin and David M. Fresco

16. Attention and Emotion Regulation, Charles T. Taylor and Nader Amir

17. Working with Emotion and Emotion Regulation in Behavioral Activation Treatment for Depressed Mood, Matthew R. Syzdek, Michael E. Addis, and Christopher R. Martell

18. Toward an Affective Science of Insomnia Treatments, Allison G. Harvey, Eleanor McGlinchey, and June Gruber