Providing emotional stability through relaxation training

Providing emotional stability through relaxation training.

To determine the effects of integrative relaxation training (IRT) on emotional stability, we exposed 32 patients diagnosed with anxiety disorder to a pre-test (16PF) and to 12 sessions of group psychoeducation training. Patients were randomly assigned to 2 groups (study 17 and control 15 patients). The study group received 12 weekly group sessions of IRT. Level of anxiety was evaluated in a pos...

Training the emotional brain: improving affective control through emotional working memory training.

Affective cognitive control capacity (e.g., the ability to regulate emotions or manipulate emotional material in the service of task goals) is associated with professional and interpersonal success. Impoverished affective control, by contrast, characterizes many neuropsychiatric disorders. Insights from neuroscience indicate that affective cognitive control relies on the same frontoparietal neu...

Providing Deliberation to Emotional Agents

Increasing functional communication through relaxation training and neuromuscular feedback.

The following research examined the effects of behavioural relaxation training and biofeedback on ataxic tremor of an adult with acquired brain injury. The participant was taught relaxation techniques before biofeedback was introduced. Once he was proficient in relaxation, these skills were then used as a foundation for biofeedback training. Specific skills, facilitating the use of a letter boa...

Increasing Emotional Intelligence through Training: Current Status and Future Directions

Emotional intelligence consists of adaptive emotional functioning involving inter-related competencies relating to perception, understanding, utilising and managing emotions in the self and others. Researchers in diverse fields have studied emotional intelligence and found the construct to be associated with a variety of intrapersonal and interpersonal factors such as mental health, relationshi...