Saturday, September 20, 2008

Child Life Department


The essence of what we do it to help make the hospital, procedures and interactions child friendly.

Are you training to heal the body?
Are you training to prevent illness & injury?
Is your primary role to promote healing & prevent illness?

What you are to the child’s body, a CCLS is to their heart and soul.We prevent and treat injuries to their hearts & souls.

In treating a child you can do it in a way that is either helpful or hurtful to that child’s heart & soul.

My hope is that you will have the tools to do it in a way that is helpful to their bodies & hearts & souls.
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Generalized Emotion How it May be Produced, and Sentic Cycle Therapy


BY: Manfred Clynes
In this chapter we are concerned with a novel, yet natural way of producing emotions using dynamic expression and touch as a mode for the precise expression of emotions, and as a special, new art form. This way is outside the life-line of an individual, i.e., does not depend on events happening to that person, is controllable, easily achieved, tells us much about the nature of emotion and its communication and results in preventive and therapeutic applications for emotional balance. First discovered in 1968(Clynes,1968,1969,1973a), it probably is still new to many psychologists. Indeed, it can seem novel and perplexing from a social perspective not quite unlike had music been invented for the first time. (Like music, it selectively engenders and utilizes generalized emotion.)
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Emotion regulation and understanding Implications for child psychopathology and therapy


Michael A. Southam-Gerowa,*, Philip C. Kendallb
aDepartment of Psychology, University of California-Los Angeles, Franz Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563, USA
bDepartment of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Received 19 June 2000; accepted 7 January 2001
Abstract
This paper considers the role of emotion regulation (i.e., extrinsic and intrinsic monitoring and adjusting of emotion) and emotion understanding(i.e., comprehension of the signs of, causes of, and ways to regulate emotion) in childhood adjustment.Developmental and clinical research focused on emotion regulation and emotion understanding are reviewed with an emphasis on studies including psychopathological samples. The implications of emotion research for the study of child psychopathology and child therapy are examined. D 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Is Emotion a Natural Kind?


Paul E. Griffiths,
Department of History and Philosophy of Science,
Introduction
In What Emotions Really Are: The problem of psychological categories (Griffiths, 1997) I argued that it is unlikely that all the psychological states and processes that fall under the vernacular category of emotion are sufficiently similar to one another to allow a unified scientific psychology of the emotions. The psychological, neuroscientific and biological theories that best explain any particular subset of human emotions will not adequately explain all human emotions. In a slogan, emotions are not a natural kind (pp. 14-17; 241-247)i. I argued that the same is probably true of many specific emotion categories, such as anger and love (p. 17). On some occasions when a person is properly said to be angry, certain psychological, neuroscientific and biological theories will adequately explain what is happening to that person. On other occasions of anger, however, different theories will be needed. I described my position as eliminitivism about emotion, because it implies that the term ‘emotion’ and some specific emotion terms like
‘anger’ are examples of what philosophers of language have called ‘partial reference’ (p. 242). The term ‘jade’ is the classic example of partial reference. The term ‘jade’ is used as if it referred to a particular kind of mineral, in the same manner as ‘malachite’ or ‘diamond’. In reality, however, the term covers two different stones, jadeite or nephrite. The term ‘jade’ partially refers to each of these two minerals. Hence, for the purposes of geology or chemistry, jade cannot be treated as a single kind of thing. The properties of the two substances have to be investigated separately, their geological origins explained separately and their abundance in unknown geological deposits predicted separately. Likewise, I argued, the sciences of the mind will have to develop separate theories of the
various different kinds of emotion and also of the various different kinds of some particular emotions. In the same sense that there is really no such thing as jade, only jadeite and nephrite, there is no such thing as emotion, only ‘affect programs’, ‘socially sustained pretences’ and other more specific categories of psychological state and process.
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Anger Management: A Holistic Approach


Berthenya Dunbar
Anger is often a difficult emotion to express and understand. However, the consequences of unmanaged anger aremanifested in the physical, emotional, and interpersonal arenas of many lives everyday. The program presented in this article uses cognitive behavioral therapy in a holistic approach to anger management treatment.Twelve anger management treatment concepts, participant assessment, group design, and facilitator characteristics are addressed. This article provides a guide for advancedpractice registered nurses to use in the development of a program that respects the complexity of patients who present for anger management treatment. J Am Psychiatr Nurses Assoc, 2004; 10(1), 16-23.
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Emotion

FIVE PERSPECTIVES ON EMOTION
1. Emotion as feeling
2. Emotion as behaviour
3. Emotion as arousal
4. The cognitive approach to emotion
5. The social approach to emotion
SPECIFIC EMOTIONS
-Five fundamental emotions
--Other discrete emotions
THE DEVELOPMENT OF EMOTION
-Early theories
-Recent theories
-Attachment
-Emotional intelligence
CAN EMOTIONS MALFUNCTION?
-Psychosomatic disorders and panic attacks
-Theories of neurotic anxiety
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Emotion Expression in Human Punishment Behavior


Erte Xiao & Daniel Houser
Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science, George Mason University
Evolutionary theory reveals that punishment is effective in promoting cooperation and maintaining social norms1-3. Although it is accepted that emotions are connected to punishment decisions4-8, there remains substantial debate over why humans use costly punishment5,9,10. Here we show experimentally that constraints on emotion expression can increase the use of costly punishment. We report data from Ultimatum Games11, where a proposer offers a division of a sum of money and a responder decides whether to accept the split, or reject and leave both players with nothing. Compared to the treatment where expressing emotions directly to proposers is prohibited, rejection of unfair offers is significantly less frequent when responders can convey their feelings to the proposer concurrently with their decisions. These data support the view that costly punishment might itself be used to express negative emotions, and suggest that future studies will benefit by recognizing that human demand for emotion expression can have significant behavioral consequences in social environments including families, courts, companies and markets12-14.
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy and the Treatment of Emotion Dysregulation


Shelley McMain and Lorne M. Korman
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
and the University of Toronto
Linda Dimeff
University of Washington
and the Behavioral Technology Group

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a disorder characterized by severe
disturbances in emotion regulation. In Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT),
affect dysregulation is seen as a consequence of a transaction between a biological predisposition to emotion vulnerability and invalidating environmental experiences. In the past few years, a growing body of research has accumulated demonstrating the efficacy of DBT in treating severely disordered, chronically suicidal, and substance-dependent individuals with BPD. This article describes a DBT approach to the treatment of emotion regulation in individuals with BPD. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Clin
Psychol/In Session 57: 183–196, 2001.
Keywords: borderline personality disorder; emotion dysregulation; Dialectical
Behavior Therapy; affect regulation
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Automatic emotion regulation during anger provocation


Iris B. Mauss a,¤, Crystal L. Cook b, James J. Gross b
a Department of Psychology, University of Denver, 2155 South Race Street, Denver, CO 80208, USA
b Jordan Hall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Received 16 December 2005; revised 27 July 2006
Abstract
Individuals frequently have to regulate their emotions, especially negative ones, to function successfully. However, deliberate emotion regulation can have signiWcant costs for the individual. Are there less costly ways to achieve emotion regulatory goals? In two studies, we test the hypothesis that more automatic types of emotion regulation might provide the beneWts of deliberate emotion regulation without the costs. Study 1 introduces a priming technique that manipulates automatic emotion regulation. Using this priming technique, we show that relative to priming emotion expression, priming emotion control leads to less anger experience in response to a laboratory anger provocation. Study 2 examines the experiential and physiological consequences of automatic emotion regulation. Results suggest that relative to priming emotion expression, priming emotion control reduces negative emotion experience without maladaptive cardiovascular responding. Together, these Wndings suggest that automatic emotion regulation may provide an eVective means of controlling powerful negative emotions. © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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expressed emotion acrossculture


Abstract Expressed emotion has been used as a construct in understanding the interaction between patients
and their carers and families. A considerable amount of data from Western cultures suggests that high expressed emotion can lead to relapse in vulnerable individuals, even when they are on medication.However, the data from other cultures are less solid. This paper reviews some of the existing findings and recommends that various components of expressed emotion must be seen in the cultural context and embedded in the normative data of the population before the concept can be considered in association with the pathogenesis of relapse.
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Positive Psychotherapy


Martin E. P. Seligman, Tayyab Rashid,
and Acacia C. Parks
Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania
Positive psychotherapy (PPT) contrasts with standard interventions for depression by increasing positive emotion, engagement, and meaning rather than directly targeting depressive symptoms. The authors have tested the effects of these interventions in a variety of settings. In informal student and clinical settings, people not uncommonly reported them to be “life-changing.” Delivered on the Web, positive psychology exercises relieved depressive symptoms for at least 6 months compared with placebo interventions, the effects of which lasted less than a week. In severe depression, the effects of these Web exercises were particularly striking. This address reports two preliminary studies: In the first, PPT delivered to groups significantly decreased levels of mild-to-moderate depression through 1-year follow-up. In the second, PPT delivered to individuals produced higher remission rates than did treatment as usual and treatment as usual plus medication among outpatients with major depressive disorder. Together, these studies suggest that treatments for depression may usefully be supplemented by exercises that explicitly increase positive emotion, engagement, andmeaning
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Children’s Anger and Tantrums


by R.J. Fetsch and B. Jacobson
All of us who are parents or who are involved with children and youth can play a vital role in their lives by learning to be the best parents we can be. How? By practicing effective parenting strategies from very early on.
One of the best opportunities for parents and their children to learn effective parenting and anger management strategies is when children get angry or have temper tantrums. If parents can manage their reactions to temper tantrums well, they can manage many other parenting situations.
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Corrective Emotional Experience in the Therapeutic Process


David Hartman, MSW and Diane Zimberoff, M.A. *
Abstract: While we are using Alexander’s work as a beginning point for this analysis of
corrective emotional experience in the therapeutic process, we extend the concept beyond
the level of ego experience (emotion, memory, and cognition) to that of Self or Soul experience (the transpersonal realms of collective unconscious, subtle energy, and the spirit world). Our analysis is grounded on the basic premise of our developmental theory, which is existential, transcendent, and karmic. Healing unresolved traumas from early life requires accessing the events that produced the trauma,re - experiencing them cathartically in the original ego state, and reframing the meaning of the experience through corrective emotional experiences. We identify more than twenty types of corrective experiences, and suggest that they all fit into one of three categories: (1) building ego strength through release of shame and reclaiming worthiness; (2) building agency through release of helplessness and reclaiming personal power; and (3) building authenticity through release of dissociation and identification and reclaiming self-reflective identity.
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Autism and Autistic Symptoms Associated with Childhood Lead Poisoning


Theodore I. Lidsky, PhD*
Jay S. Schneider, PhD†
ABSTRACT
Autism is a developmental disorder that impairs both nonverbal and verbal communication and reciprocal social interactions and is seen in association with an
abnormally restricted range of interests. Although symptoms typically develop without clear etiological cause, some cases are associated with disorders or conditions that negatively impact brain development. Lead is a neurotoxin to which the developing brain is particularly vulnerable. Moreover, lead poisoning in children is known to negatively affect brain systems implicated in cognitive, communication, and social functioning. The present paper presents two case histories of children who, during periods of severe lead poisoning, developed autism or autistic symptoms.These cases underscore that there are multiple causes of autism and the importance of environmental influences in some cases.
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A Tale of Two Visions Can a New View of Personality Help Integrate Psychology?


John D. Mayer
University of New Hampshire
Personality psychology studies how psychological systems
work together. Consequently, the field can act as a unifying resource for the broader discipline of psychology. Yet personality’s current fieldwide organization promotes a
fragmented view of the person, seen through such competing theories as the psychodynamic, trait, and humanistic. There exists an alternative—a systems framework for personality—that focuses on 4 topics: identifying personality, personality’s parts, its organization, and its development. This new framework and its view of personality are described. The framework is applied to such issues as personality
measurement, psychotherapy outcome research, and education. The new framework may better organize the field of personality and help with its mission of addressing
how major psychological systems interrelate.
Keywords: fieldwide framework, personality psychology, personality structure, personality measurement, integrative psychotherapy
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Anger, Hostility, and Aggression

Learning Objectives
After reading this chapter, you should be able to
1. Discuss anger, hostility, and aggression.
2. Describe psychiatric disorders that may be associated with an increased
risk of hostility and physical aggression in clients.
3. Describe the signs, symptoms, and behaviors associated with the five
phases of aggression.
4. Discuss appropriate nursing interventions for the client during the five
phases of aggression.
5. Describe important issues for nurses to be aware of when working with
angry, hostile, or aggressive clients.
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Young Children’s Post Tantrum Affiliation With Their Parents


M. Potegal* and R.J. Davidson
Psychology Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
In our database of 331 parental narratives of tantrums had by children 18–60 months old, 29% of the tantrums were followed by child-initiated affiliation with parents. Four variables increased the probability of children’s post tantrum affiliation (PTA): age, prolonged screaming, physiological stress, and parent-initiated separation from the child during the tantrum. The age effect may be due to increasing post tantrum persistence of negative affect, to the emergence of shame, guilt, and embarrassment over this developmental period, and/or to increasing cognitive ability, empathic capacity, or socialization. Screaming, which may be analogous to the defensive vocalizations of nonhuman primates, increases PTA when prolonged for 6 min or more. Physiological stress (indicated by autonomic activation or respiratory distress) appears linked to prolonged screaming and may mediate its effects by increasing the child’s dysphoria and need for consolation. Separation (parents’ departure from the scene of the tantrum or their imposition of a time out) also appears linked to prolonged screaming and may reflect parents’ response to an aversive auditory stimulus. There was no evidence that PTA was associated with the presence or degree of physically expressed anger in the tantrum. PTA may be associated with distress during the tantrum. The post conflict reconciliation which occurs in several domains of human social life may be first experienced by children in the aftermath of their tantrums. Aggr. Behav. 23:329–341, 1997. © 1997 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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RUNNING HEAD: THE NATURE OF EMOTION REGULATION

On the nature of emotion regulation
Joseph J. Campos
University of California, Berkeley
Carl B. Frankel
Stanford University
Linda Camras
De Paul University
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Emotion dysregulation and the development of borderline personality disorder


KATHERINE M. PUTNAMa,b and KENNETH R. SILKc
aNational Center for PTSD, Boston; bBoston University Medical Center; and
cUniversity of Michigan Health System
Abstract
We review the role of emotion regulation in borderline personality disorder ~BPD!. We briefly discuss the historical development of BPD as a disorder where emotional regulation plays a key role. We review the concept of emotion regulation in general and explore both one-factor and two-factor models of emotion regulation. We discuss cognitive and attentional aspects of emotion regulation, and explore these regulatory controls as operating as both voluntary as well as automatic processes. We then turn to other neurophysiological models of emotion regulation in general and examine how those models, both neurophysiologically and neuroanatomically, are expressed in individuals with BPD. We examine how neuroimaging, both anatomical and functional, reveals the roles that various neuroanatomical structures play in the regulation of emotion in BPD. We conclude by creating a neurodevelopmental model that describes how a complex matrix involving the interplay of constitutional0biological predispositions with environmental stressors as well as with parental effectiveness in response to the child’s emotion expression can impact key aspects of adult cognitive, affective, interpersonal, and behavioral functioning that culminate in a diagnosis of BPD.
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Successful Communication

A Toolkit for Researchers and Civil Society Organisations
by: Ingie Hovland
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Alcohol Abuse as a Risk Factor for and Consequence of Child Abuse


Cathy Spatz Widom, Ph.D., with Susanne Hiller-Sturmhöfel, Ph.D.
The relationship between child abuse and the use or abuse of alcohol has two aspects. First, some findings have indicated that parental alcohol abuse may be associated with the physical or sexual abuse of children. Research findings in this area remain inconsistent, however. Second, the experience of being abused as a child may increase a person’s risk for alcohol-related problems as an adult. This relationship has best been demonstrated in women who had been victims of childhood abuse. Several factors most likely contribute to or influence this relationship, including coping skills;antisocial behavior; and psychological problems, such as posttraumatic stress disorder. KEY WORDS: child abuse; AOD (alcohol or other drug) abuse; risk factors; family AODU (AOD use,abuse, and dependence) history; family dysfunction; marital conflict; sexual abuse; coping; antisocial behavior; posttraumatic stress disorder
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COGNITIVE DISTORTIONS AND SOCIAL SELF-ESTEEM IN SEXUAL OFFENDERS


Susan Pervan
Mick Hunter
University of Newcastle
New South Wales, Australia
This study examined the cognitive distortions concerning sexual offending
behaviour and social self-esteem of four groups of men (child molesters, rapists, violent offenders, and a control group of university students) using the Bumby RAPE and MOLEST Scales, the Social Self-Esteem Inventory, and the Marlowe-Crowne SocialDesirability Scale. The Bumby RAPE Scale did not discriminate convincingly between thegroups, although the Bumby MOLEST scale did find less disagreement with cognitive distortions among child molesters compared to rapists and violent offenders, but not less than university students. Social self-esteem scores varied between groups with the child molesters showing the lowest self-esteem scores.Furthermore, offenders with high selfesteem selected more pro-social responses than did offenders with low self-esteem.Recent research concerning sexual offender behaviour has established a number of factors commonly associated with offending (Marshall, 1996; Polaschek &King, 2002). Sexual offenders have been shown to exhibit poor intimacy skills(Garlick, Marshall,& Thornton, 1996; Lisak & Ivan, 1995; Marshall , Bryce, Hudson, Ward, & Moth, 1996; Seidman, Marshall, Hudson, &Robertson, 1994;), to experience high degrees of loneliness(Marshall, et al., 1996; Seidman, Marshall, Hudson, & Robertson,1994;), experience social difficulties (Marshall, 1996); exhibit poor coping strategies and engage in sexual coping (Marshall,Cripps, Anderson, & Cortoni, 1999), hold cognitive distortions.
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Friday, September 19, 2008

Social status and aggression: A field study analyzed by survival analysis

Social status and aggression: A field study analyzed by survival analysis


Diekmann, Andreas; Jungbauer-Gans, Monika; Krassnig, Heinz; Lorenz, Sigrid


The Journal of Social Psychology; Dec 1996; 136, 6; Academic Research Library


pg. 761



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Antisocial Personality Disorder


F. Gerard Moeller, M.D., and Donald M. Dougherty, Ph.D.
Epidemiologic studies and laboratory research consistently link alcohol use with aggression. Not all people, however, exhibit increased aggression under the influence of alcohol. Recent research suggests that people with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) may be more prone to alcohol-related aggression than people without ASPD. As a group, people with ASPD have higher rates of alcohol dependence and more alcohol -related problems than people without ASPD. Likewise, in laboratory studies, people with ASPD show greater increases in aggressive behavior after consuming alcohol than people without ASPD. The association between ASPD and alcohol-related aggression may result from biological factors, such as ASPD-related impairments in the functions of certain brain chemicals (e.g., serotonin) or in the activities of higher reasoning, or “executive,” brain regions. Alternatively, the association between ASPD and alcohol -related aggression may stem from some as yet undetermined factor(s) that increase the risk for aggression in general. KEY WORDS: antisocial personality disorder; aggressive behavior; AODR (alcohol or other drug [AOD] related) behavioral problem; personality trait; AODR violence; expectancy theory of AODU (AOD use, abuse, and dependence); disinhibition theory of AODU; neurobiological theory of AODU; brain function; AODE (effects of AOD use, abuse, and dependence) on emotion

Numerous studies indicate an association between alcohol consumption and aggressive behavior. Not all people who consume alcohol, however, become aggressive. In trying to elucidate the relationship between alcohol consumption and aggression, researchers have suggested that people with a psychiatric condition called antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) may be particularly susceptible to alcohol-related aggression. This article explores that association in more detail. First, the article describes the distinguishing features of ASPD. Then it reviews the findings of epidemiologic and laboratory studies that have investigated the link between ASPD and aggression. Finally, the article presents several mechanisms that may contribute to differences between people with and without ASPD with respect to alcohol-related aggression.
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