Change in Emotion and Mental Health

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Change in Emotion and Mental Health 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.

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Introduction Part I: Change in emotions from a fundamental perspective 1 Changing feelings: individual differences and emotional inertia 2 Changing the emotion process: emotion regulation 3 Changing the situation-emotion relation: the appraisal-reappraisal cycles 4 Changing emotional memories 5 Changing emotions and emotional competencies with interventions. Part II: Change in emotions from a developmental perspective 6 Development of emotion awareness and understanding and mental health 7 Change in emotion regulation across the life-span 8 Changing emotions in relation to the development of appraisals 9 Changes in memories and changes of emotions: the role of mental imagery and emotions 10 Changing emotional competences from a neurodevelopmental perspective Part III: Change in emotion, psychotherapy and mental health 11 Change in emotion awareness in psychotherapy 12 Change in emotion regulation in psychotherapy 13 Change in emotion appraisal and reappraisal in psychotherapy 14 Change in emotion memory in psychotherapy 15 Changing emotion with emotion: therapeutic interventions focused on emotional processes