Bookedited by Cecilia A. Essau, Sara Leblanc, Thomas H. Ollendick.
Summary: Emotions are a cardinal component of everyday life, affecting one's ability to function in an adaptive manner and influencing both intrapersonal and interpersonal processes. This book brings together leading experts in the field to provide a guide to dealing with emotional problems in children and adolescents.
Contents:
Part 1. Emotion regulation : general issues
Emotion regulation : an introduction
The relation of self-regulation to children's externalizing and internalizing problems
Biological and physiological aspects of emotion regulation
Cultural and social aspects of emotion regulation
Research domain criteria (RDoC) and emotion regulation
Part II. Emotion regulation and child and adolescent psychopathology
Emotion regulation and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Emotion regulation and conduct disorder : the role of callous-unemotional traits
Emotion regulation and anxiety : developmental psychopathology and treatment
Emotion regulation and depression : maintaining equilibrium between positive and negative affect
Emotion regulation and eating disorders
Emotion regulation and substance use disorders in adolescents
Emotion regulation in autism spectrum disorder
Emotion dysregulation in adolescents with borderline personality disorder
Emotion regulation in severe irritability and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder
Part III. Emotion regulation in specific behavior/population
Children of abuse and neglect
Children and divorce
Children's and adolescents' emotion regulation in the context of parental incarceration
Children exposed to traumatic stress
Adolescents who engage in nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI)
Part IV. Epilogue
Transdiagnostic approaches to emotion regulation : basic mechanisms and treatment research.