Main description:

Emotion dysregulation, which is often defined as the inability to modulate strong negative affective states including impulsivity, anger, fear, sadness, and anxiety, is observed in nearly all psychiatric disorders. These include internalizing disorders such as panic disorder and major depression, externalizing disorders such as conduct disorder and antisocial personality disorder, and various others including schizophrenia, autism, and borderline personality
disorder. Among many affected individuals, precursors to emotion dysregulation appear early in development, and often predate the emergence of diagnosable psychopathology.

The Oxford Handbook of Emotion Dysregulation brings together experts whose work cuts across levels of analysis, including neurobiological, cognitive, and social, in studying emotion dysregulation. Contributing authors describe how early environmental risk exposures shape emotion dysregulation, how emotion dysregulation manifests in various forms of mental illness, and how emotion dysregulation is most effectively assessed and treated. Conceptualizing emotion dysregulation as a core
vulnerability to psychopathology is consistent with modern transdiagnostic approaches to diagnosis and treatment, including the Research Domain Criteria and the Unified Protocol, respectively. This handbook is the first text to assemble a highly accomplished group of authors to address conceptual issues in
emotion dysregulation research, define the emotion dysregulation construct across levels of cognition, behavior, and social dynamics, describe cutting edge assessment techniques at neural, psychophysiological, and behavioral levels of analysis, and present contemporary treatment strategies.

Contents:

About the Editors
Contributors

1. Functionalist and Constructionist Perspectives on Emotion Dysregulation
Theodore P. Beauchaine and Nathaniel Haines

2. Emotions as Regulators of Motivated Behavior
Eric E. Nelson, Michele A. Morningstar, and Whitney I. Mattson

3. Emotions as Regulators of Social Behavior
Lane Beckes and Weston Layne Edwards

4. Cognition and Emotion in Emotion Dysregulation
Kateri McRae and Paree Zarolia

5. What Emotion Dysregulation Looks Like: Inferences from Behavioral Observations
K. Ashana Ramsook, Pamela M. Cole, and Margaret A. Fields-Olivieri

6. Emotion Dysregulation and Aging
Patrick Whitmoyer and Ruchika Shaurya Prakash

7. Emotion Generation, Regulation, and Dysregulation as Multilevel Transdiagnostic Constructs
Sheila E. Crowell, Robert D. Vlisides-Henry, and Parisa R. Kaliush

8. Development of Emotion Dysregulation in Developing Relationships
Ross A. Thompson and Sara F. Waters

9. Operant Reinforcement and Development of Emotion Dysregulation
Christina Gamache Martin, Maureen Zalewski, Grace Binion, and Jacqueline O'Brien

10. Cognitive Processes and Risk for Emotion Dysregulation
Hooria Jazaieri, Helen Uusberg, Andero Uusberg, and James J. Gross

11. Interpersonal Processes and the Development of Emotion Dysregulation
Sarah A. Stoycos, Geoffrey W. Corner, Mona Khaled, and Darby Saxbe

12. Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia as a Transdiagnostic Biomarker of Emotion Dysregulation
Theodore P. Beauchaine and Ziv E. Bell

13. Event-Related Potentials and Emotion Dysregulation
Brittany C. Speed and Greg Hajcak

14. Neuroimaging of Emotion Dysregulation
Joseph C. Leshin and Kristen A. Lindquist

15. Behavioral and Molecular Genetics of Emotion Dysregulation
Lance M. Rappaport, Sage E. Hawn, Cassie Overstreet, and Ananda B. Amstadter

16. Epigenetic Foundations of Emotion Dysregulation
Mindy Brown, Elisabeth Conradt, and Sheila E. Crowell

17. Emotion Dysregulation and Externalizing Spectrum Disorders
Tiffany M. Shader and Theodore P. Beauchaine

18. Emotion Dysregulation and Internalizing Spectrum Disorders
Camelia E. Hostinar and Dante Cicchetti

19. Emotion Dysregulation and Childhood Trauma
Patricia K. Kerig

20. Emotion Dysregulation and Autism Spectrum Disorder
Emily Neuhaus

21. Emotion Dysregulation and Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
Gemma T. Wallace and Anna R. Docherty

22. Emotion Dysregulation in Addiction
Eric L. Garland, Spencer Bell, Rachel Atchley, and Brett Froeliger

23. Emotion Dysregulation and Eating Disorders
Sarah E. Racine and Sarah Horvath

24. Emotion Dysregulation and Self-Inflicted Injury
Erin A. Kaufman and Sheila E. Crowell

25. Emotion Dysregulation and Borderline Personality Disorder
Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon, Lauren A. Haliczer, and Lindsey C. Conkey

26. Behavioral Assessment of Emotion Dysregulation
Molly Adrian and Michele Berk

27. Self-Report Assessment of Emotion Dysregulation
Kim L. Gratz, Courtney N. Forbes, Linnie E. Wheeless, Julia R. Richmond, and Matthew T. Tull

28. Assessing Emotion Dysregulation in Daily Life
Heather Schatten, Kenneth J.D. Allen, and Michael F. Armey

29. Treating Emotion Dysregulation in Externalizing Disorders
Dominika A. Winiarski, April L. Brown, Niranjan S. Karnik, and Patricia A. Brennan

30. Treating Emotion Dysregulation in Internalizing Disorders
Christiane Kehoe and Sophie Havighurst

31. Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Treatment of Emotion Dysregulation
Alexander L. Chapman and Nora H. Hope

32. Future Directions in Research and Treatment of Emotion Dysregulation
Theodore P. Beauchaine, Hunter Hahn, and Sheila E. Crowell