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Change in Emotion and Mental Health provides conceptual, experimental, and methodological advances concerning the multiple roles of ""change"" in affective sciences, and also in developmental psychology, psychopathology, and psychotherapy, by adopting a focus on emotion and mental health. The volume is organized in three parts: 1) Fundamental mechanisms of change in emotion, 2) Developmental changes, and 3) Changes in psychotherapy. Each part includes five chapters on five functional domains: 1. Emotion awareness and understanding 2. Appraisal and reappraisal 3. Emotion regulation 4. Emotion memories 5. Emotion competencies and transformation

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Andrea Samson is Professor at the Faculty of Psychology at Unidistance Suisse and a scientific collaborator in special education at the University of Fribourg (both Switzerland). She is passionate about better understanding positive emotions, humor, and emotion regulation in people with and without developmental disorders (e.g., autism spectrum disorders and Williams syndrome). With her team, she is creating tools including board games to support the development of emotional competencies. David Sander is Full Professor in the Department of Psychology (FPSE) at the University of Geneva where he holds the Chair for the Psychology of Emotion, and where he is the head of the Laboratory for the study of Emotion Elicitation and Expression (E3 Lab). Since 2012, he is also the Director of the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences (http://www.affective-sciences.org), which is located at the Campus Biotech in Geneva. Ueli Kramer, PhD, is Professor for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, psychotherapy researcher and clinical psychotherapist according to Federal Law, Director of the Institute of Psychotherapy, at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He holds an adjunct appointment at the Department of Psychology, University of Windsor, Canada. His research focuses on process and outcome in psychotherapy, in particular the mechanisms of change in treatments of personality disorders, and case formulation in personality disorders. Dr. Kramer has published over 180 scientific contributions, and ten books. He is a broadly trained clinician, author and editor, working from an integrative psychotherapy perspective. Dr. Kramer is Past President of the European Society for Psychotherapy Research (EU-SPR) and current President of the European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ESSPD). Dr. Kramer’s research has been supported by a number of grants, and has been recognized by the Inger Salling Foundation, the Society for Psychotherapy Research, the Hamburg GePS Society for Personality Disorders, the AEMD Marina Picasso Foundation and the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration.

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