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The development of emotion regulation and dysregulation: a clinical perspective
This essay published in 1994 explains how emotional regulation and dysregulation may have developed based on a clinical viewpoint. Cole et al. state that dysregulation in emotion control could arise and become a part of a damaging coping mechanism if the person is put under certain circumstances. Emotional symptoms are commonly seen in various forms of psychopathology. Dysregulation can be somewhat characterized by the subject’s use of cultural display rules, ability to reflect on the complexity and value of his/her own thoughts in a healthy way, access to a range of emotions, and ability to adapt between emotions in terms of intensity and duration. The authors mention that there is a framework which allows parties to assess how emotions are regulatory, how their governance changes over time, and to determine under what conditions an adaptive emotion process can be modified into a pattern of dysregulation associated with mental disorders. This research requires the study of children with or without mental health problems, with paradigms in place to allow researchers to see the children’s reactions beyond what they can personally report. It is believed to be particularly important to examine children and their families in emotionally challenging situations since the environment around the children appears to play a crucial factor in the disturbance of the kids’ interpersonal and intrapsychic functioning, as well as their learning of emotion control. [NPID: behavior, emotional regulation, coping mechanisms, psychopathology, emotion control, interpersonal, interpersonal functioning, intrapsychic functioning]
Year: 1994
