The Development of Emotion Regulation and Dysregulation: (Cambridge Studies in Social and Emotional Development)

Provides a developmental perspective of the regulation and dysregulation of emotion, in particular, how children learn about feelings and how they learn to deal with both positive and negative feelings. Emotion regulation involves the interaction of physical, behavioral, and cognitive processes in response to changes in one's emotional state. The changes can be brought on by factors internal to the individual (e.g. biological) or external (e.g. other people). Featuring contributions from leading researchers in developmental psychopathology, the volume concentrates on recent theories and data concerning the development of emotion regulation with an emphasis on both intrapersonal and interpersonal processes. Original conceptualizations of the reciprocal influences among the various response systems - neurophysiological-biochemical, behavioral-expressive, and subjective-experiential - are provided, and the individual chapters address both normal and psychopathological forms of emotion regulation, particularly depression and aggression, from infancy through adolescence. This book will appeal to specialists in developmental, clinical, and social psychology, psychiatry, education, and others interested in understanding the developmental processes involved in the regulation of emotion over the course of childhood.

Table of Contents:
List of contributors; Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Domains of emotion regulation Kenneth A. Dodge and Judy Garber; Part II. Early Development: 2. Contributions from the study of high-risk populations to understanding the development of emotion regulation Dante Cicchetti, Jody Ganiban and Douglas Barnett; 3. Development of emotion expression during infancy: general course and patterns of individual difference Carol Malatesta-Magai; 4. Infant social referencing Tedra A. Walden; 5. Relationships, talk about feelings, and the development of affect regulation in early childhood Judy Dunn and Jane Brown; Part III. Physiological Regulation: 6. Vagal tone: an autonomic mediator of affect Stephen W. Porges; 7. Marital discord and child outcomes: a social psychophysiological approach Lynn Fainsilber Katz and John M. Gottman; Part IV. Cognitive Regulation: 8. Emotion and social information processing Kenneth A. Dodge; 9. Strategies and mechanisms for the personal and social control of emotion John C. Masters; 10. The regulation of sad affect: an information-processing perspective Judy Garber, Nancy Braafladt and Janice Zeman; Part V. Psychopathology: 11. Guilt and empathy: sex differences and implications for the development of depression Carolyn Zahn-Waxler, Pamela M. Cole and Karen Caplovitz Barrett; 12. Age changes in depressive disorders: some developmental considerations Michael Rutter; Part VI. Integration: 13. Emotions system functioning and emotion regulation Carroll E. Izard and R. Rogers Kobak; Author index; Subject index.

Review :
"...an informative, for the most part well-written, account of how American children learn about emotions, and how they learn to deal with positive and negative emotions. It features interesting and attention-holding contributions from leading researchers who discuss recent theories, concepts, and findings regarding the origin of emotion regulation and dysregulation; therefore, appealing to professionals interested in how children are purported to regulate their emotional responses, how they learn to do so, what they regulate, why they regulate, and what may derail them from doing it effectively." Ralph B. Hupka, Contemporary Psychology "This timely collection of articles will be indispensable to students and researchers in the area of social-emotional development. Chapters range from reports of empirical data to proposals of complex theoretical models, providing a thought-provoking blend of materials. All chapters are well-organized and skillfully written...Clinicians will be particularly interested in the 'Psychopathology' section, as well as the chapters by Cicchetti, et al., and Garber, et al." Lisa Boyum, Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography