Soothing the Threatened Brain: Leveraging Contact Comfort with Emotionally Focused Therapy

Social relationships are tightly linked to health and well-being. Recent work suggests that social relationships can even serve vital emotion regulation functions by minimizing threat-related neural activity. But relationship distress remains a significant public health problem in North America and...

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Main Authors: Johnson, Susan M., Moser, Melissa Burgess, Beckes, Lane, Smith, Andra, Dalgleish, Tracy, Halchuk, Rebecca, Hasselmo, Karen, Greenman, Paul S., Merali, Zul, Coan, James A.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3835900/