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Introduction to the Special Section: Transformative Research on Emotion Regulation and Dysregulation
Author(s) -
DelCarmenWiggins Rebecca
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
child development perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1750-8606
pISSN - 1750-8592
DOI - 10.1111/j.1750-8606.2008.00053.x
Subject(s) - transformative learning , psychology , transformational leadership , mental illness , special section , developmental cognitive neuroscience , developmental psychology , translational research , emotional regulation , section (typography) , mental health , neuroscience , cognition , psychotherapist , social psychology , cognitive neuroscience , medicine , pathology , advertising , business , engineering physics , engineering
—Scholars are giving increased attention to the need to incorporate research on more basic developmental processes into new paradigms for understanding and treating mental illness in children and adolescents. The study of emotion regulation, rooted in neurodevelopment, has proven a fruitful model for understanding and characterizing problems of behavior and risk in children and adolescents. This article summarizes NIMH initiatives designed to encourage transformational research on the neurodevelopment origins of mental illness. It highlights the NIMH Strategic Plan and the Report on Transformative Neurodevelopment Research as part of an introduction to a collection of articles that grew out of a previously organized NIMH workshop on developmental and translational models of emotion regulation and dysregulation.