Dr. Driscoll's clinical practice at The Family Institute focuses on helping adults and couples
with emotion regulation difficulties build lives that are meaningful, vital and worth living.
Not exact matches
Indeed, many consider the development of emotional self -
regulation in particular to be one of the key processes in childhood behaviour problems.27, 28,29,30 For example, in characterizing the behaviour of children
with early externalizing behaviour problems, there is often reference to a lack of control, under - control, or poor
regulation.29, 30 In characterizing the behaviour of children
with internalizing disorders, there is often a discussion of over - control.12 Understanding the role of temperament in child development may be facilitated by examining the possible mediational effects of emerging self and
emotion regulation, and may provide a more proximal mechanism for the development of different forms of behavioural adjustment
difficulties characteristic of childhood.
Additionally, impacts are seen in behavior and
emotion regulation; children
with trauma often have
difficulty regulating
emotions which can lead to externalizing behaviors that include hyperarousal, defiance, and aggression or internalizing behaviors that include withdrawing, depression, and wanting to hide or be invisible.
Leah uses evidence - based, systemic models to help clients achieve growth and change
with a variety of issues, including communication
difficulties, relationship conflict, adjustment around life transitions, anxiety, depression, trauma, establishing and maintaining boundaries, and
emotion regulation.
Consistently
with our hypothesis, both BAEQ and ACS scales demonstrated significant correlations
with difficulties in
emotion -
regulation,
regulation strategies and coping styles (see Table 2 (a) & Table 2 (b)-RRB-.
Specific beliefs about
emotions (Uncontrollable, Irrational, Damaging and Contagious - BAEQ scales) and
difficulties in
emotion regulation (DERS subscales) were positively correlated, except for the absence of correlation
with BAEQ 3 and 4 (Invalid and Useless subscales)(see Table 2 (a)-RRB-.
The fear of
emotions (ACS scores) was correlated
with both the
difficulties in
emotion -
regulation (DERS) and the considered
emotion -
regulation strategies (see Table 2 (b)-RRB-.
Consistently
with this assumption, a sub-scale of DERS considers the tendency to have a negative secondary or non-accepting reaction to one's own distress (i.e. beliefs that
emotions are shameful) as a specific
difficulty in the
emotion regulation process.
«My professional experience includes therapy
with children, adolescents, individuals, couples and families who have sought help
with a variety of issues including depression, anxiety, traumatic experiences, behavioral issues, eating disorders,
difficulty with emotion regulation and emotional expression, social deficits, issues related to educational or occupational functioning, relationship issues and
difficulty communicating.»
The infant clearly can not state whether he or she experiences symptoms such as a «lack of comfort seeking for distress,» «
emotion regulation difficulties,» or» a willingness to go off
with relative strangers,» to name a few.
Lowered activity in these areas have been associated
with states of detachment (e.g., numbing), reduced emotional awareness, traits of alexithymia (
difficulties in identifying and describing feelings), and reduced
emotion regulation.
Indeed, many consider the development of emotional self -
regulation in particular to be one of the key processes in childhood behaviour problems.27, 28,29,30 For example, in characterizing the behaviour of children
with early externalizing behaviour problems, there is often reference to a lack of control, under - control, or poor
regulation.29, 30 In characterizing the behaviour of children
with internalizing disorders, there is often a discussion of over - control.12 Understanding the role of temperament in child development may be facilitated by examining the possible mediational effects of emerging self and
emotion regulation, and may provide a more proximal mechanism for the development of different forms of behavioural adjustment
difficulties characteristic of childhood.
As a mental health therapist
with advanced training in both Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), she loves supporting individuals and families through
difficulties involving anxiety, mood disorders,
emotion regulation, self - injury and suicidality.
The role of parenting behaviors in the development and maintenance of
emotion regulation difficulties and comorbid disorders among children
with ADHD is explored.
Difficulties with inattention, social interaction and
emotion regulation can all provoke a poor reaction to the school environment and experience and ultimately lead to more negative school outcomes.
I have expertise in working
with children and teenagers presenting
with anxiety, depression,
emotion regulation, and interpersonal
difficulties.
Children
with deficits in
emotion self -
regulation have
difficulties in inhibiting their behavior when emotionally aroused, which may result in externalizing problems.
Peer relationship
difficulties and peer rejection are common in youngsters
with attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), mandating focus on assessment issues, underlying reasons for peer approval and disapproval, links
with comorbid aggression, and the mediating role of sociocognitive mechanisms as well as
emotion regulation strategies.
Results also reported intervention youth - reported SC were unrelated to parents»
difficulties with emotion awareness /
regulation and parental SC, and parent - reported youth SC were unrelated to parent - reported parent
emotion dismissing compared to the control group at follow - up.
In contrast, the expression of withdrawal
emotions (i.e., sadness and fear) in face of negative events is associated
with behavioural
difficulties, poor
emotion regulation, and helplessness.
Children who have disorganized attachment
with their primary attachment figure have been shown to be vulnerable to stress, have problems
with regulation and control of negative
emotions, and display oppositional, hostile - aggressive behaviours, and coercive styles of interaction.2, 3 They may exhibit low self - esteem, internalizing and externalizing problems in the early school years, poor peer interactions, unusual or bizarre behaviour in the classroom, high teacher ratings of dissociative behaviour and internalizing symptoms in middle childhood, high levels of teacher - rated social and behavioural
difficulties in class, low mathematics attainment, and impaired formal operational skills.3 They may show high levels of overall psychopathology at 17 years.3 Disorganized attachment
with a primary attachment figure is over-represented in groups of children
with clinical problems and those who are victims of maltreatment.1, 2,3 A majority of children
with early disorganized attachment
with their primary attachment figure during infancy go on to develop significant social and emotional maladjustment and psychopathology.3, 4 Thus, an attachment - based intervention should focus on preventing and / or reducing disorganized attachment.
Also, because of previously found gender differences
with regard to childhood anxiety and
emotion regulation difficulties (e.g., Bender et al., 2012), we balanced gender in the current study by including an equal number of boys and girls.
With respect to internalizing symptoms, high emotion - related physiological reactivity coupled with high emotion regulation difficulties were associated with higher self - reported major depression symptoms among yo
With respect to internalizing symptoms, high
emotion - related physiological reactivity coupled
with high emotion regulation difficulties were associated with higher self - reported major depression symptoms among yo
with high
emotion regulation difficulties were associated
with higher self - reported major depression symptoms among yo
with higher self - reported major depression symptoms among youth.
To conclude, although knowledge on
emotion regulation difficulties within families
with an AD is growing, it is of great importance to gain more insight into dyadic emotional processes of parent - child dyads unfolding in the moment that are related to child and parent AD.
We identified two targets of behavioral interventions that may lead to improvements in mental health and reductions in sexual transmission risk behaviors — maladaptive cognitions underlying negative self - schemas and
difficulties with emotion regulation.
Difficulties with emotion and its
regulation are of central importance to the etiology and course of depression.
The DERS (Gratz and Roemer, 2004) is a self - report questionnaire, which consists of 36 items and measures
difficulties with regard to
emotion regulation.
These observed differences in neurological activity, consistent
with the dual systems model, contribute to increased emotional volatility and
difficulty with emotion regulation that increases during adolescence, which ultimately manifests as increased risk for SUDs and comorbid psychopathology (e.g., [29 • •, 36]-RRB-.
We expected an indirect effect of beliefs about
emotions on
emotion regulation strategies, and we hypothesized this effect would be mediated by the unwillingness to remain in contact
with aversive private experiences, i.e., experiential avoidance (Hayes, Strosahl, & Wilson, 1999) and by the
difficulties a person experiences in regulating
emotions (Gratz & Roemer, 2004).
Indeed, disordered and dysregulated mood defines many forms of psychopathology, and
difficulty with emotion regulation has been described as a core deficit that emerges across psychiatric disorders and manifests as dysregulation across multiple levels of analysis — biology, physiology, and behavior [15].
The profile of
emotion dysregulation was virtually identical for the Unipolar Depression and Anxiety groups,
with BD demonstrating
emotion regulation difficulties intermediate between controls and the two clinical groups.
Additionally, we asked whether a better emotional understanding in children would be associated
with less anxiety, fewer
emotion regulation difficulties, as well as more secure attachment relationships
with parents, as suggested, in theory, by the literature.
When investigating the relations between the subscales of the SCARED - R and the overall measures of
emotion understanding,
emotion regulation difficulties, and attachment security, respectively, results showed that the OCD subscale correlated positively
with emotion dysregulation and negatively
with emotion understanding and attachment security.
If the FEEL - KJ reveals weaknesses in
emotion regulation, it seems useful to also administer the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS)[45] as this instrument was developed to measure the underlying processes that result in problems with emotion regulation (e.g., «Lack of Emotional Awareness, «Limited Access to Emotion Regulation Strategies&r
emotion regulation, it seems useful to also administer the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS)[45] as this instrument was developed to measure the underlying processes that result in problems with emotion regulation (e.g., «Lack of Emotional Awareness, «Limited Access to Emotion Regulation Strategie
regulation, it seems useful to also administer the
Difficulties in
Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS)[45] as this instrument was developed to measure the underlying processes that result in problems with emotion regulation (e.g., «Lack of Emotional Awareness, «Limited Access to Emotion Regulation Strategies&r
Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS)[45] as this instrument was developed to measure the underlying processes that result in problems with emotion regulation (e.g., «Lack of Emotional Awareness, «Limited Access to Emotion Regulation Strategie
Regulation Scale (DERS)[45] as this instrument was developed to measure the underlying processes that result in problems
with emotion regulation (e.g., «Lack of Emotional Awareness, «Limited Access to Emotion Regulation Strategies&r
emotion regulation (e.g., «Lack of Emotional Awareness, «Limited Access to Emotion Regulation Strategie
regulation (e.g., «Lack of Emotional Awareness, «Limited Access to
Emotion Regulation Strategies&r
Emotion Regulation Strategie
Regulation Strategies»).
Higher scores indicate greater
difficulties in
emotion regulation Participants are required to indicate how often each items apply to themselves,
with responses ranging from 1 to 5, where 1 is almost never (0 % - 10 %) 2 is sometimes (11 % - 35 %) 3 is (about half the time 36 % - 65 %) 4 is most of the time (66 % - 90 %) and 5 is almost always (91 % - 100 %).
It is also important to highlight that
emotion regulation difficulties play a role as both a cause and a consequence of drug use,
with bidirectional effects showing that poorer
emotion regulation predicts increased drug use, but increased drug use also predicts poorer
emotion regulation [for reviews, see 28, 38, 50 •, 53 • •].
In line
with our hypothesis, specific beliefs about
emotions were related to different
difficulties in
emotion regulation.
Difficulties with emotion regulation have been detected via self - report in several anxiety and depressive disorders, and in particular, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).
Coherently
with cognitive models, this study tested the hypothesis that specific beliefs about
emotions may be associated
with difficulties in
emotion regulation and the use of different ERS (reappraisal, suppression, acceptance, rumination, avoidant coping, experiential avoidance).
Pain symptoms, psychological variables and
difficulties in
emotion regulation were negatively associated
with HRQoL.
The dysregulation of
emotions may be studied at all different levels of
emotion experience, cognition and
regulation, such as emotional dynamics (Silk et al. 2003),
emotion knowledge (e.g., not knowing that one may experience different
emotions at the same time and believing that emotional experiences can not be modulated; e.g., Meerum - Terwogt and Olthof 1989),
difficulties with the use of
emotion regulation strategies (e.g., distraction, cognitive reinterpretation; Gross and Thompson 2007), and meta -
emotion experiences (e.g., nonacceptance of emotional responses; Gratz and Roemer 2004).
For the mediator models, sociodemographic risk was associated
with impaired
emotion regulation, which in turn was linked
with heightened adjustment
difficulties.
Our study focused on two such mediational links — affective quality in mother - child interactions and children's
difficulties with emotion regulation.
Children's
emotion regulation difficulties were hypothesized to mediate the association between maternal
difficulties with emotion regulation and children's internalizing and externalizing problems.
Physical pain symptoms and
emotion regulation difficulties via psychological stress negatively affect the health - related quality of life (HRQoL) of women living
with endometriosis.
Emotion regulation deficits are also found in adults
with ASD (Samson et al. 2012), suggesting that the
difficulties with controlling
emotions seen in childhood are also observed later on in life.
Given the high rates of emotional
difficulties (Ooi et al. 2011; Totsika et al. 2011), psychopathology (Brereton et al. 2006; Dickerson et al. 2011), and externalizing and internalizing problems (Maskey et al. 2013) in children
with ASD, these findings support the need for interventions targeting the underlying deficits in
emotion regulation abilities (Gross and Thompson 2007; Mazefsky et al. 2013; Rieffe et al. 2011; Weiss 2014).
The findings indicated that fathers» perceived parental care of their own parents (G1) was negatively linked to fathers» (G2) non-supportive responses to negative
emotions shown by their children (G3) through its negative association
with the father's (G2)
emotion regulation difficulties, whereas fathers» perceived parental overprotection of their own parents (G1) was positively linked to fathers» (G2) non-supportive responses to negative
emotions shown by their children (G3) through its positive associations
with the fathers» (G2)
emotion regulation difficulties.
The fathers completed a set of self - report questionnaires including parental boding instrument,
difficulties in
emotion regulation scale, and coping
with children's negative
emotion scale.