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Mental illness and well‐being: an affect regulation perspective

World psychiatry, 2019-06, Vol.18 (2), p.130-139 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2019 World Psychiatric Association ;2019 World Psychiatric Association. ;ISSN: 1723-8617 ;EISSN: 2051-5545 ;DOI: 10.1002/wps.20618 ;PMID: 31059626

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  • Title:
    Mental illness and well‐being: an affect regulation perspective
  • Author: Gross, James J. ; Uusberg, Helen ; Uusberg,  Andero
  • Subjects: Affect ; Affect (Psychology) ; affect regulation ; Mental disorders ; Mental health care ; mental illness ; process model ; psychotherapy ; Special ; transdiagnostic mechanisms ; well‐being
  • Is Part Of: World psychiatry, 2019-06, Vol.18 (2), p.130-139
  • Description: Mental health crucially depends upon affective states such as emotions, stress responses, impulses and moods. These states shape how we think, feel and behave. Often, they support adaptive functioning. At other times, however, they can become detrimental to mental health via maladaptive affect generation processes and/or maladaptive affect regulation processes. Here, we present an integrative framework for considering the role of affect generation and regulation in mental illness and well‐being. Our model views affect generation as an iterative cycle of attending to, appraising and responding to situations. It views affect regulation as an iterative series of decisions aimed at altering affect generation. Affect regulation decisions include identifying what, if anything, should be changed about affect, selecting where to intervene in the affect generation cycle, choosing how to implement this intervention, and monitoring the regulation attempt to decide whether to maintain, switch or stop it. Difficulties with these decisions, often arising from biased inputs to them, can contribute to manifestations of mental illness such as clinical symptoms, syndromes and disorders. The model has a number of implications for clinical assessment and treatment. Specifically, it offers a common set of concepts for characterizing different affective states; it highlights interactions between affect generation and affect regulation; it identifies assessment and treatment targets among the component processes of affect regulation; and it is applicable to prevention and treatment of mental illness as well as to promotion and restoration of psychological well‐being.
  • Publisher: Hoboken, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1723-8617
    EISSN: 2051-5545
    DOI: 10.1002/wps.20618
    PMID: 31059626
  • Source: Geneva Foundation Free Medical Journals at publisher websites
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