Emotion Regulation: Conceptual and Clinical Issues

Conceptual and Neurobiological Issues.- Introduction: Emotions, Emotion Regulation, and Health.- Coping Styles and Aggression: A Biobehavioral Approach.- New Avenues in Alexithymia Research: The Creation of Alexithymia Types.- Alexithymia and Physical Health Problems: A Critique of Potential Pathways and a Research Agenda.- Current Issues in Repressive Coping and Health.- Why Crying Improves Our Well-being: An Attachment-Theory Perspective on the Functions of Adult Crying.- Emotional Intelligence: Relationships to Stress, Health, and Well-being.- Clinical Perspectives and Interventions.- Emotion Expression in Depression: Emerging Evidence for Emotion Context-Insensitivity.- Emotion Regulation and the Anxiety Disorders: Adopting a Self-Regulation Perspective.- The Clinical Assessment and Treatment of Trauma-Related Self and Affect Dysregulation.- Emotional Inhibition, Health, Gender, and Eating Disorders: The Role of (Over) Sensitivity to Others.- Emotional Competence and Health in Children.- Crying in Psychotherapy: Its Meaning, Assessment, and Management Based on Attachment Theory.- Expressive Writing in the Clinical Context.- Writing for All, for Some, or for No One? Some Thoughts on the Applications and Evaluations of the Writing Technique.