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THE DEVELOPMENT OF EMOTION REGULATION AND DYSREGULATION: A CLINICAL PERSPECTIVE

THE DEVELOPMENT OF EMOTION REGULATION AND DYSREGULATION: A CLINICAL PERSPECTIVE We wish to thank Rheta DeVries, Claire Kopp, Doug Teti, Ross Thompson, and Carolyn Zahn-Waxler for their thought-provoking comments on earlier drafts of this essay. Address correspondence to Pamela M. Cole, Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park PA 16802. 73 NATHAN A. FOX, ED. environmental demands. For example, anger serves progress toward goals in tbe face of obstacles. Sadness serves tbe relinquisbing of desired objects and goals, preventing wasted effort and eliciting nurturance from otbers. Tbus, emotion bas a regulatory influence on otber processes, sucb as focusing attention and communicating witb otbers. Emotion is also regulated in tbat tbe experience and expression of emotion can be modulated to meet situational demands. For example, one may attenuate intense anger in expression to avoid damaging a relationsbip. Views of emotion as poorly controlled or disorganizing are still central in popular conceptualizations of psycbological immaturity and deviance and in clinical conceptualizations of maladaptive bebavior and psycbopatbology. Clinical models of psycbopatbology and tberapeutic cbange focus on tbe problematic aspects of emotion, implicitly or explicitly, and assume tbat awareness and flexible control of emotion states are indices of adjustment and treatment success (Bradley, 1990; Greenberg &: Safran, 1987; Hart, 1983; Luborsky, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development Wiley

THE DEVELOPMENT OF EMOTION REGULATION AND DYSREGULATION: A CLINICAL PERSPECTIVE

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We wish to thank Rheta DeVries, Claire Kopp, Doug Teti, Ross Thompson, and Carolyn Zahn-Waxler for their thought-provoking comments on earlier drafts of this essay. Address correspondence to Pamela M. Cole, Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park PA 16802. 73 NATHAN A. FOX, ED. environmental demands. For example, anger serves progress toward goals in tbe face of obstacles. Sadness serves tbe relinquisbing of desired objects and goals, preventing wasted effort and eliciting nurturance from otbers. Tbus, emotion bas a regulatory influence on otber processes, sucb as focusing attention and communicating witb otbers. Emotion is also regulated in tbat tbe experience and expression of emotion can be modulated to meet situational demands. For example, one may attenuate intense anger in expression to avoid damaging a relationsbip. Views of emotion as poorly controlled or disorganizing are still central in popular conceptualizations of psycbological immaturity and deviance and in clinical conceptualizations of maladaptive bebavior and psycbopatbology. Clinical models of psycbopatbology and tberapeutic cbange focus on tbe problematic aspects of emotion, implicitly or explicitly, and assume tbat awareness and flexible control of emotion states are indices of adjustment and treatment success (Bradley, 1990; Greenberg &: Safran, 1987; Hart, 1983; Luborsky,

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Published: Feb 1, 1994

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