Change in Emotion and Mental Health

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

• 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