Emotion Regulation: Conceptual and Clinical Issues - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0387299858 ISBN 13: 9780387299853

Publisher: Springer, 2008

Synopsis

An increasing number of studies have been conducted on the role of expression and regulation of emotion in health. Emotion Regulation addresses the question of these studies from diverse angles while encompassing conceptual, developmental, and clinical issues. Central concepts discussed in this volume that are related to health include: coping styles and aggression, alexithymia, emotional intelligence, emotional expression and depression, emotional expression and anxiety disorders, in addition to the emotional competence in children. The book is unique in describing up-to-date theories and empirical research in the area of emotional expression and health.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Denollet is Professor of Medical Psychology, Dr. Nyklicek is Assistant Professor of Psychology, Dr. Vinghoets is Professor of Clinical Health Psychology. All three work at the Department of Psychology and Health at Tilburg University, in Tilburg, Netherlands.

From the Back Cover

Emotions: basic products of human functioning, intimately involved in physical health, they have been alternately embraced and ignored by generations of researchers and practitioners. Emotion Regulation offers a much-needed corrective to the conventional clinical wisdom, updating the knowledge base on emotions―specifically their expression and inhibition―as they affect stress, health, and well-being. An international team of researchers from a variety of fields sort out conflicting affect/health theories, and provide the latest findings on inter- and intrapersonal functions of emotions while acknowledging the role of individual variables. The book covers conceptual, developmental, and clinical issues and balances core topics with emerging areas of interest, including:

• Non-expression of emotion in the affective disorders, and innovative approaches to treatment.
• Five types of alexithymia, and their relationships to health problems.
• Aggression as maladaptive coping.
• Emotional suppression in eating disorders.
• Children’s somatic complaints: an emotional-competence perspective.
• Attachment perspectives on adult crying.
• Emotional intelligence: is it really intelligence, and can it really be assessed?
• Clinical applications of the writing disclosure paradigm.

This wealth of insights makes Emotion Regulation a practice-enhancing work of particular interest to clinical and health psychologists, neuropsychologists, and psychiatrists working in medical settings. The book is comprehensive enough to be a useful postgraduate text for these and related fields.

 

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387299858
• ISBN 13: 9780387299853
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Nyklíček Ivan, Vingerhoets Ad, Zeelenberg Marcel