Attention and Emotion: A Clinical PerspectiveThis text critically reviews the literature on attention and emotion, and offers an integrative cognitive attentional model of the development and maintenance of emotional disorders. It highlights the similarities and differences between disorders and offers specific new treatment implications. The book contains numerous summary sections so that readers less familiar with the cognitive literature can follow the main issues without being overwhelmed. The central aims of this work are: to review critically models of attention and their application to attentional processes in emotional disorders; To develop an integrative theoretical framework and model for conceptualizing attentional processes associated with the aetiology and maintenance of emotional stress reactions; and to discuss the implications for clinical practice of attentional theories of emotional dysfunction. |
Contents
Basic Conceptual and Theoretical Issues | 19 |
Selection of Complex Personally Significant | 45 |
Attention and affective information | 54 |
Attentional Bias in Emotional Disorders | 61 |
Theoretical Issues | 95 |
Attentional Deficit | 121 |
Distressing Intrusive Thoughts | 147 |
Interactionist Approaches to Stress | 165 |
Cause or Consequence of Emotional | 245 |
Conclusions | 251 |
Studies of recovered patients | 259 |
Theoretical Integration | 265 |
Clinical Implications | 297 |
Conclusions | 315 |
References | 339 |
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Attention and Emotion (Classic Edition): A clinical perspective Adrian Wells,Gerald Matthews Limited preview - 2014 |
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