What Attachment Style?
can talk about hot topics without getting angry
Secure Attachment
True or False:
Parent's emotions influence their child's emotion regulation
True
What are the two most common emotional disorders
Depression and Anxiety
What are at least 4 of the 6 innate emotions?
Interest, Joy/Happiness, Sadness, Anger, Disgust and Fear
the ability to control one's emotions
emotions reach overwhelming levels and become more and more difficult to soothe
Resistant Attachment
what is an appropriate response to a child crying?
"I can see you're upset, lets talk about what you can do about it" or just general support.
children with internalizing disorders feel...
less happiness and more sadness, anger, and worry.
What is Emotion?
A subjective reaction to an important event, involving physiological or observable change
What are coping strategies?
deliberate attempts to change thoughts or behavior when you are overwhelmed with emotion
avoids emotional closeness to others and tends to suppress emotions
Avoidant Attachment
What are the three strategies parents should use to help their children get better at emotion regulation
Responding, Expressing, and Talking
what percentage of teens reported experiencing a major depressive episode in 2020
17%
By adulthood there are at least how many different emotions?
28
What is emotional intelligence?
the ability to use emotions to guide abilities and to think intelligently about emotions
child is distressed which a caregiver leaves, but when they return they are angry and refuse comforting
Resistant Attachment
Three strategies that parents and teachers can use to help children with coping and what ages are best for them
Comforting (infants and toddlers)
Distraction (ages 4-8)
Reappraisal (preschool and beyond)
what percentage of children are anxious in kindergarten, and do they outgrow it?
about one third, and most outgrow it by the end of elementary school
what are the 4 components of emotion?
1. an important event
2. a physiological change
3. readiness for action
4. appraisal of the event
Coping strategies can either be ___ or ___
problem-focused or emotion-focus
a couple has been together for six months and one suggests meeting the others families. the other partner feels overwhelmed, starts making excuses and doesn't respond to texts.
Avoidant Attachment
List three ways to talk about emotions with children is important and why those reasons are important.
Make them feel valued and worthy, responding calmly, conversation explains why people behave the way they do, and teaches them coping strategies
when do children feel chronic anxiety
What 4 cognitive abilities are required for children to have social emotions?
1. awareness that they are a separate self from their attachment figures
2. awareness that rules exist
3. ability to evaluate their self against those rules
4. ability to judge whether they caused something
What is emotional dissemblance?
altering the expressions of felt emotions by expressing no emotion or a different emotion