Author:
Abed Mahdavi,Elaheh Hejazi
Abstract
Emotions play a vital and valuable role in human life because, in different ways, they affect people’s behavior, thinking, and social interactions. Positive and negative emotions can both facilitate the process of progress and make the process difficult. Different people, especially those suffering from Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), resort to various strategies to regulate their emotions. Although several medicinal and psychotherapeutic methods have been introduced to help this spectrum of society, none of them have been able to solve psychosocial problems. Developmental studies and neuroimaging show that multiple cortical and subcortical regions in the brain regulate emotions, and with age, and effective psychotherapies, people’s ability to do so improves. The present study examines issues, including ADHD, problems associated with emotion regulation in people with ADHD, emotion regulation strategies, parenting, and emotion regulation, and related neurological mechanisms, as well as offers some suggestions for the path forward in terms of clinical interventions.