From our psychology department Assistant Professor Ayşe Altan Atalay The book titled Emotion Regulation from Theory to Practice, of which she is one of the editors, was published by Koç University Press.
Emotion regulation is the general name given to the cognitive or behavioral strategies that almost every individual uses to change the different dimensions of the emotions they experience even on an ordinary day. Although emotion regulation is seen as a group of skills that play a significant role in individuals’ daily lives, the emergence of widely accepted theoretical approaches in this field dates back to the early 2000s.
Emotion regulation, which begins as an interpersonal process in the early stages of life, continues to affect individuals’ daily lives with its social, cognitive and behavioral dimensions as the individual matures. These skills are strategies that we keep on hand and use frequently when trying to cope with both ordinary stressors and unexpected major stressors such as the COVID-19 pandemic that we have experienced in the recent past. For this reason, emotion regulation is discussed in five different sections in this book: theoretical, social, cognitive, developmental and clinical.
The main purpose of preparing this book is to provide the reader with a Turkish resource that includes current theoretical approaches and empirical research on emotion regulation.
Emotion Regulation from Theory to Practice
Compiled by: Ayşe Altan Atalay, Burcu Kaya Kızılöz, Dilek Sarıtaş Atalar
Koç University Press, 2023, 408 pages.