Emotion Regulation And Emotional Regulation

Emotion regulation involves intrinsic and extrinsic processing of monitoring and modifying emotional reactions in both positive or negative situations (Martins, 2012). In order for individuals to have the ability to regulate emotions, they must beware of their emotions. Although infants are unaware and lack the ability to regulate their emotions, it then becomes the role of a primary carer to nurture the infant, thus acting as a model for regulating emotions. Evidently, infants grow to reflect the ways in which their carers control and modify their emotions as well as social boundaries. Furthermore, emotion regulation is considered an important aspect of an individuals life as it 'can moderate emotions and keep them in a manageable range

Before starting the discussion of emotion-focused therapy, it is very important to have an understanding of what emotion is. Historically, emotions were seen as nonspecific and disruptive; however more recent analyses have emphasized the functions that emotions serve (Hebb, 1949). Although emotions address different adaptive problems, they generally facilitate decision making, prepare the individual for rapid motor responses and provide information regarding the ongoing match between organism and environment (Schwarz & Clore, 1983). In addition to this, emotion also serves as a social function for they inform us about others’ behavioral intentions, give us clues as to whether something is good or bad and control our social behavior (Greenberg & Safran, 1987). From an emotion-focused perspective, according to Greenberg (2004), emotion disorder is seen as a result of more failures in the dyadic regulation of affect, avoidance of affect, traumatic

Emotion regulation- This component focuses on how an individual should control or manage his or emotions during a specific situation.

Lewis (2013) explains the ability to control your emotions does not begin until a child nears the age of six (as cited in Berger, 2014, p. 276). The need to maintain control of feelings and emotions remains important throughout adulthood. It would not be normal for a 38-year-old lawyer to throw a temper tantrum in the courtroom because they did not win a case. Not everyone is great at controlling their emotions, but there is always room for improvement (Berger, 2014). A child is not born with this control, nor can one learn it on their own. Morris et al. (2007) discussed the importance of parents, teachers and other adults that may be in a child?s life to instruct and inform children of appropriate ways to manage their feelings for them to learn or develop over time (as cited in Berger, 2014, p. 276). It is the same aspect as manners. A child does not come out of the womb saying ?please? and ?thank you,? but must be taught to use such mannerisms. Eric Erikson explained that children believe they can achieve any goal just as long as they keep trying because their view of their abilities is not yet within reason (Berger, 2014). A child may see a fish breath underwater and believe they too can breathe while swimming

Our emotions, whether it is momentary or long term such as fear for birds, can be controlled through “Emotion Regulation” (ER). ER has been defined in all sorts of ways, one definition that this text draws attention to is Calkins (2007), stating ER as the behaviours, skills and strategies regardless of it being automatic or effortful, that modulates affective arousal that facilitates adaptive functioning. ER is a dynamic system categorized into two main maladaptive styles, one recognised as over regulation which relates to internalised behaviours from regulation through self-control (Martins, Soares, C.Martins, Tereno and Osorio, 2012) and under regulation that involves uncontrollable negative emotion outbursts during engagement of goal-directed behaviours (Roberton, Daffern, & Bucks., 2012). What has been made evident through research, is that this dynamic process of self-regulation, begins early in infancy and continues on through the later years in life (Miller, McDonough, Rosenblum., 2002; Martins et al., 2012). The whole dynamic nature of emotions is derived from infancy and the interactions that are shared during those stages. The construction of ER within Martins et al, 2012 has been labelled in two processes, one being intrinsic and the other being extrinsic. This text studies the maladaptive styles of emotion regulating, in particular, the cause of over regulating in infants. Related to ER, this text also highlights the association between infant emotion

Some studies demonstrated emotion regulation intervention through expressive writing. The patients were to complete 3-5 brief writing sessions, where they were required to express their deepest thoughts and feelings about a traumatic or stressful experience. The investigations showed large benefits to the physical and psychological health of these patients. Another potential benefit in expressive writing is its low cost and easy implementation.

There is no doubt, that past experiences effect the way a person reacts to their future circumstances. However, this study concludes that behaviors once thought to be controlled cognitively, are in fact proving to be hormonally mediated. Seemingly insurmountable negative human behavior may in fact be easily adjusted by a simple hormonal adjustment. This may just be the

Mindfulness refers to paying attention to the present-moment experience by acknowledging and accepting thoughts and emotions without judgement or reactiveness (Morgan et al., 2014). Social anxiety in adolescents is experienced commonly as marked fear of social situations in case embarrassment or humiliation may occur. (Essau, Conradt, & Peterman, 1999). Notably, there are well-known links between mindfulness and social anxiety with research reporting higher levels of mindfulness predict lower levels of social anxiety (Rasmussen & Pidgeon, 2011; Schmertz, Masuda, & Anderson, 2012). Indeed, mindfulness enables cognitions that lead to emotional anguish to be

People’s ability to manage life events can influence whether their well-being will be improve or deteriorate with age. However, this is only possible to achieve through the gaining of long-term experiences and practicing with emotional situations. Instead of using primary control strategies that requires people’s control over their environment, older people use secondary control strategies such as, emotion regulation to adjust to their environment. This strategy can help them to handling emotional

Affect Regulation Therapy (ART) can also influence affect regulation because it helps with regulation of fight, flight, and freeze defensive mechanisms which results in the improvement of mood, in affect regulation and personality function, cognitive functioning, one’s learning capacity, and resilience to stressful situations. ART objective is to improve an individual's ability to generate a suitable emotional response to any given situation (Schore & Schore,

Emotional Regulation Questionnaire. Emotional regulation is defined as one’s ability to respond to the ongoing demands of experience with the range of emotions in a manner that is socially tolerable and sufficiently flexible to permit spontaneous reactions as well as the ability to delay spontaneous reactions as needed. The Emotional Regulation Questionnaire Scale consists of 10 items designed to measure respondents’ tendency to regulate their emotions in two ways: (1) Cognitive Reappraisal and (2) Expressive Suppression (i.e. I control my emotions by changing the way I think about the situation I’m in.; When I’m faced with a stressful situation, I make myself think about it in a way that helps me stay calm.). Response options range from 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree). (Gross & John, 2003). The Emotional Regulation Question has been regarded as a component of quality assurance (Zangi et al., 2009).

I want to research, “How effective is incorporating Social Communication Emotional Regulation Transactional Supports (SCERTS) model to support individuals with ASD?”

In the next paragraphs I will consider some theories, factors and evidence on cognitive controlling of emotion in terms of

Maturation is especially important for individuals as it provides several competitive evolutionary advantages (Locke & Bogin, 2006). Through this process, individuals develop and acquire control over their emotions and behaviours. This ability to monitor and adapt our emotions, cognition and behaviours in accordance to the social and intellectual demands of particular contexts is often referred to as self-regulation (Demetriou, 2000; Zimmerman, 2000). Various complex cognitive skills are required for self-regulation. These skills encompass the constant observation of our thoughts and behaviours, knowledge of the demands of any situation, the capability to alter conditions of our current behaviour as required to achieve a goal or suit a situation and attention to how favourably the demands of a context are met (Evans & Rosenbaum, 2008).

Emotions No matter how hard you try, you cannot control your emotions, only attempt to hide them. Emotions influence every aspect of our lives, what we do, what we say, and et cetera. All of our emotions, from anger to insecurity, are influenced by several factors, just as our lives are influenced by our emotions (Gelinas, Emotions 35). First of all, it causes problems when one does not trust himself, and it shows up in many ways.