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Change in Emotion and Mental Health

  • 1st Edition - February 15, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Andrea C. Samson, David Sander, Ueli Kramer
  • Language: English

Change in Emotion and Mental Health provides conceptual, experimental, and methodological advances concerning the multiple roles of "change" in affective sciences, and also… Read more

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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

Key features

  • 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

Readership

Researchers and practitioners in affective sciences, neurosciences, developmental and clinical psychology

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

Review quotes

"...designed to create an increased understanding of how emotions and their centrality to existence play a part in humans’ mental status....[E]xplores the very nature of how emotions change [and] focuses on the impact of these changes to mental health while also looking at how mental health can cause changes in emotions and emotional processes. All the while, this book navigates the processes of emotions in therapeutic engagement. [S]killfully expounds on emotions through a 5-stage framework: awareness and understanding, appraisal and reappraisal, regulation, memories and emotion competencies, and transformation....The book’s organization makes it more accessible to read....It is well-written and explores a topic that is hugely important....[A] research-oriented frame of knowledge." —©Doody’s Review Service, 2024, Charla Sue Waxman, BS, MBA, EdD (Lake Behavioral Hospital)

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 16, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Andrea C. Samson

Andrea Samson is Professor at the Faculty of Psychology at Unidistance Suisse and a scientific collaborator in special education at the University of Fribourg (both Switzerland). She is passionate about better understanding positive emotions, humor, and emotion regulation in people with and without developmental disorders (e.g., autism spectrum disorders and Williams syndrome). With her team, she is creating tools including board games to support the development of emotional competencies.

Affiliations and expertise
Faculty of Psychology, UniDistance Suisse, Brig, Switzerland and Institute of Special Education, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

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David Sander

David Sander is Full Professor in the Department of Psychology (FPSE) at the University of Geneva where he holds the Chair for the Psychology of Emotion, and where he is the head of the Laboratory for the study of Emotion Elicitation and Expression (E3 Lab). Since 2012, he is also the Director of the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences (http://www.affective-sciences.org), which is located at the Campus Biotech in Geneva.

Affiliations and expertise
Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland and Department of Psychology, FPSE, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

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Ueli Kramer

Ueli Kramer, PhD, is Professor for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, psychotherapy researcher and clinical psychotherapist according to Federal Law, Director of the Institute of Psychotherapy, at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He holds an adjunct appointment at the Department of Psychology, University of Windsor, Canada. His research focuses on process and outcome in psychotherapy, in particular the mechanisms of change in treatments of personality disorders, and case formulation in personality disorders. Dr. Kramer has published over 180 scientific contributions, and ten books. He is a broadly trained clinician, author and editor, working from an integrative psychotherapy perspective. Dr. Kramer is Past President of the European Society for Psychotherapy Research (EU-SPR) and current President of the European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ESSPD). Dr. Kramer’s research has been supported by a number of grants, and has been recognized by the Inger Salling Foundation, the Society for Psychotherapy Research, the Hamburg GePS Society for Personality Disorders, the AEMD Marina Picasso Foundation and the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration.

Affiliations and expertise
Department of Psychiatry, University of Lausanne, Switzerland and Department of Psychology, University of Windsor, ON, Canada

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