EMOTIONS AND EMOTION REGULATION IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

The understanding of emotions possesses important implications for elu cidating normal as well as abnormal development. The contributions tha t the emotions have made for enhancing our understanding of psychopath ology have been evident throughout history, in this article, an overvi ew of the historical links between the emotions and psychopathology is presented. Despite its rich history, much contemporary theory and res earch on emotions has been conducted primarily within a nonpathology p erspective. In recent decades, investigators have become more interest ed in examining the role and development of the emotions in atypical p opulations. It has been argued that the modularity of the emotions sys tem requires a developmental model of emotion regulation.