This case study evaluates the efficacy of a 10-session manualized version of general psychiatric management (GPM) with a female patient diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD), severe depressive disorder, and schizotypal traits. The authors hypothesized that increases in adaptive emotional processing would lead to increases in therapeutic alliance and treatment outcome. Hypotheses ...

Objective: Many people, especially women, indulge in eating unhealthy food to cope with stress. Emotional eating may contribute to obesity and different eating disorders like bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. The present study aimed to investigate the role of emotion dysregulation in emotional eating behavior. Methods: A sample of 700 adults between the ages of 18 to 50 years was sele...

Background: Developing and promoting empathy between couples can assist them in dealing with destructive communication patterns, increasing their satisfaction through effective dialogue and conversation, and, as a result, creating a safe place to meet emotional needs. The present study aimed to determine the effectiveness of Olson’s enrichment training program and Johnson’s relationship enrichm...

BACKGROUND Borderline personality disorder has been characterized by enhanced emotional reactivity and deficient emotion regulation in behavioral and functional imaging studies. We aimed to validate patients' difficulties in the cognitive regulation of negative emotions and investigated if emotion regulation deficits are restricted to the decrease of negative emotions. A cognitive reappraisal p...

background: the unified treatment approach (up), an emotion-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy that holds emotional processes as a central target of treatment, is applicable for disorders with strong emotional components. the aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of emotion regulation intervention derivative from the up on emotional problems and quality of life among patients wit...

Adviser: Professor Margaret Rosario The present study examined the relationships between maternal dissociation, mothers’ self-described parenting behaviors in child emotion regulation, and the emotion regulatory capacity of their children. These relationships were investigated in a sample of predominately low-income African-American and Latino mothers and children residing in a domestic violenc...

Introduction: In this study, we aimed to compare the attachment styles and emotion regulation difficulties of adolescents with psychiatric disorders healthy adolescents, examine factors affecting difficulties.
 Material-methods: case-control DSM-5 diagnostic system was used for diagnoses Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale-Short Form (DERS-SF) measure adolescents' levels emotional dys...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is characterized by the presence of recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges or images as well as repetitive behaviors or mental acts. According to the existing evidence, it can be predicted that difficulties in emotion regulation, impulsivity and anger are related to obsessive-compulsive disorder in one way or another. The aim of the present study was to predict o...