L spite the importance of emotions in everyday life, scientific efforts to try to understand them and their links to the mind and brain have proved troublesome. Particularly problematic from a clinical perspective are creating and instituting ways of controlling emotions (especially negative ones) in clients and even in psychologists. The present chapter examines two overlapping clinical issues in helping individuals to manage stress and emotions among adults in Mexico City. The first focuses on the role of written disclosure on the control of biological and subjective stress. A second strategy considers the role of disclosure as a technique to bring about emotional reversal. As we discuss, processes related to disclosure and emotional reversal may not conform to traditional notions of stress and linear causal relations.If we are to understand the effects of emotional stress on human behavior, we need to be able to distinguish between an emotional and a nonemotional state. Unfortunately a pure physiological definition of emotion of stress is limited. Selye (1983) defines stress as the result of any demand 255
Several studies have evaluated emotional facial recognition in people with neurological disorders and psychiatric illnesses. However, few behavioral rehabilitation programs in social skills include training in emotional facial recognition and reproduction. The objective of the present investigation was to develop a pilot brief intervention in recognition and emotional facial reproduction and its deactivation through relaxation, to evaluate its biopsychosocial effects. A pre -post-treatment design was used (N = 22 healthy adults). The results have shown an effect on the decrease of the respiratory rate (p <. 001) and the inflammatory response associated with stress (p < .05), as well as a decrease (p <. 05) of the anxiety score, depression and emotional suppression; and an increase in the social support score. Its clinical utility is discussed in the context of training these skills for mental health professionals and patients with elevated inflammation.
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