Emotion Regulation and Reflections on Psychiatric Nursing

Abstract

It is not possible for the human being who experiences many emotions and gives meaning to these emotions for a day, to live a life away from experiencing emotions. A thought of not seeing the person we love with us, seeing our parents and even touching any object causes an emotion to appear. The adventure of defining and making sense of emotion from the earliest ages to the present day continues today. When emotion is evaluated as processes that provide adaptation by shaping human behavior, excesses seen in emotion are evaluated as diseases, and the needs of individuals to understand, live, sustain and stop emotions are gathered under the concept of emotion regulation. This concept does not only concern psychiatric nurses closely for the clinics in which they work, but it is also an answer to the needs and regulations of their own feelings. For this reason, the aim of this review is to evaluate the concept of emotion regulation from the emotion theories and evaluate its reflections on psychiatric nursing.

Keywords

• emotion
• emotion theories
• emotion regulation
• psychiatric nursing