Download or read book Emotion Regulation in Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Current Understanding and Treatments written by Ru Ying Cai and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-08-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotion regulation allows people to influence and modify the intensity, duration and types of emotions experienced, and how these emotions are expressed. The capacity to regulate emotions increases and becomes more sophisticated throughout child development due to the maturation of prefrontal brain regions involved in executive functioning. Emotion regulation is a transdiagnostic process that plays a pivotal role in the development and maintenance of internalizing and externalizing symptoms such as anxiety, depression or problematic behaviors. Emotion dysregulation is a prominent feature of neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Furthermore, emotion dysregulation has been suggested to play a vital role in less commonly diagnosed neurogenetic disorders such as Phelan-McDermid Syndrome, germline heterozygous PTEN mutations and 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. Fortunately, emotion regulation processes are amenable to treatment in various clinical and non-clinical populations.