{"id":113499,"date":"2024-10-13T01:24:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T18:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=113499"},"modified":"2024-10-13T01:24:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T18:24:44","slug":"reflecting-on-parents-in-therapy-can-shift-childhood-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=113499","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on Parents in Therapy Can Shift Childhood Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Summary: <\/strong>New research suggests that reflecting on a parent in therapy can subtly alter how a person recalls feelings from childhood, even if the question is neutral. This process, known as reappraisal, may lead individuals to adjust their emotions or perceptions toward a parent, with potential long-term effects on family dynamics. In one experiment, participants were asked to remember positive or negative attributes of their mothers, which notably impacted their current and past feelings.<\/p>\n<p>This finding underscores the malleability of emotional memories, highlighting a need for awareness in therapeutic practices. Being informed of reappraisal effects could help individuals maintain accuracy in recalling childhood emotions. The study emphasizes the power of self-reflection in therapy and its potential influence on relationships.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Reflecting on parents in therapy can shift memories and feelings from childhood.<\/li>\n<li>Neutral questions on parents\u2019 traits significantly affected participants\u2019 emotions.<\/li>\n<li>Awareness of reappraisal in therapy may help maintain memory accuracy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong>University of Portsmouth<\/p>\n<p><strong>New research\u00a0suggests a person\u2019s feelings towards a parent can be significantly changed when they are asked to evaluate them during talking therapy, even when the question isn\u2019t suggestive.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Therapists often ask clients to reflect on their relationships with family, as a way to help unlock past memories and feelings. A new study, led by the University of Portsmouth, has explored whether this line of questioning can alter emotions and memories towards a parent \u2013 a process known as reappraisal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><picture fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-105366\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/10\/therapy-child-memory-neurosicence.jpg.webp 1200w, https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/10\/therapy-child-memory-neurosicence-300x200.jpg.webp 300w, https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/10\/therapy-child-memory-neurosicence-770x513.jpg.webp 770w, https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/10\/therapy-child-memory-neurosicence-1155x770.jpg.webp 1155w, https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/10\/therapy-child-memory-neurosicence-370x247.jpg.webp 370w, https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/10\/therapy-child-memory-neurosicence-293x195.jpg.webp 293w, https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/10\/therapy-child-memory-neurosicence-150x100.jpg.webp 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/10\/therapy-child-memory-neurosicence.jpg\" alt=\"This shows the shadow of a dad and child.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/10\/therapy-child-memory-neurosicence.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/10\/therapy-child-memory-neurosicence-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/10\/therapy-child-memory-neurosicence-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/10\/therapy-child-memory-neurosicence-1155x770.jpg 1155w, https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/10\/therapy-child-memory-neurosicence-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/10\/therapy-child-memory-neurosicence-293x195.jpg 293w, https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/10\/therapy-child-memory-neurosicence-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"\/> <\/picture><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Even boosting positive reappraisals comes with risks. Credit: Neuroscience News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The current paper investigates the effect of reappraisals toward participants\u2019 mothers, focusing on the emotions happiness, interest, sadness, and anger. They also looked at how this reflection can affect what they felt about the parent in childhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The lead author,\u00a0Dr Lawrence Patihis\u00a0from the\u00a0University\u2019s School of Psychology, Sport and Health Sciences, specialises in memory reliability. He explained why he wanted to investigate this phenomenon: \u201cWe all have childhood amnesia in early years, because we\u2019re constantly producing new neurons. This leads to complications around what we think we remember, and what actually happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor example, imagine that someone experiences positive emotions with their father during the first 11 years of their life, but this changes at age 16 when he divorces their mum. What they don\u2019t realise is that this negative re-evaluation of their father will subtly change the memory of their relationship with him when they were younger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExisting research has shown memories are changeable, and we wanted to test whether the same could be said about how we remember feeling in childhood towards a parent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the first experiment, some participants were asked to give recent examples of when their mother had exhibited evidence of having a positive attribute, while others were asked for examples of her having a negative attribute.<\/p>\n<p>The results show that their current emotions were significantly changed by the reappraisals, and memories of emotion from childhood were altered as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherapists and clients should be aware that prompts like this during a session might unintentionally lead to reappraisals of parents, with knock on effects on emotions and memories\u201d, explained Dr Patihis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome therapies that focus on childhood reappraise parents negatively, because the assumption is that relationship problems you have in the present are the result of trauma from childhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut our research supports existing evidence that this process can sometimes manipulate the truth of what people actually felt in the past. The concern is that this can result in a family growing distant from one another in the present.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not to say that individuals with genuine negative experiences shouldn\u2019t trust their feelings \u2013 just that everyone should be more aware that their emotions and memories are changeable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even boosting positive reappraisals comes with risks. Dr Patihis added: \u201cIt is true that thinking more positively towards a parent can improve the relationship overall, but if you accurately remember childhood feelings of sadness and anger, you can then use that accurate memory to choose to raise your own children differently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf people are made aware that therapies can shift memories before beginning a session, that knowledge can help them stay accurate about their childhood memories. I have argued that this should be part of informed consent.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About this psychology and memory research news<\/h2>\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#ffffe8\"><strong>Author: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#dcaeb3bea5b2f2b1b3b2a8bdbba9b99cacb3aea8f2bdbff2a9b7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Robyn Montague<\/a><br \/><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/port.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University of Portsmouth<\/a><br \/><strong>Contact: <\/strong>Robyn Montague \u2013 University of Portsmouth<br \/><strong>Image: <\/strong>The image is credited to Neuroscience News<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#ffffe8\"><strong>Original Research: <\/strong>Open access.<br \/>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/00332941241283413\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reappraising a Parent can Occur With Non-suggestive Questions: Changing Emotions and Memories of Emotion<\/a>\u201d by Lawrence Patihis et al. <em><em>Psychological Reports<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-pale-cyan-blue-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\"\/>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reappraising a Parent can Occur With Non-suggestive Questions: Changing Emotions and Memories of Emotion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whether it is possible to reappraise parents using non-suggestive questions, and whether this has an impact on emotions and memories, is of great interest in both life and psychotherapy.<\/p>\n<p>Past research has shown reappraisals of past situations is associated with changes in memories of emotions. In previous work we showed memories of love could be affected by reappraisals, but did not analyze that dataset on other memories of emotion.<\/p>\n<p>The current paper investigates the effect of reappraisals toward participants\u2019 mothers on the emotions: happiness, interest, sadness, and anger (and on memories of those emotions in childhood).<\/p>\n<p>Results show that emotions appeared to be significantly changed by reappraisals. In Experiment 1 (<em>N =<\/em>\u00a0301;\u00a0<em>M<\/em><sub>age<\/sub>\u00a0= 36), we found memories of emotion were affected, especially memory of happiness in childhood, but to a lesser degree compared to current emotions. This offered some confirmation of the cognitive appraisal view of memories of emotions.<\/p>\n<p>Experiment 2 (<em>N =<\/em>\u00a0202;\u00a0<em>M<\/em><sub>age<\/sub>\u00a0= 36) with pretest and posttest measures showed some similar patterns, but with slightly muted effects. Therapists and clients should be aware that non-suggestive prompts might lead to reappraisals of parents, with knock on effects on emotions and memories.<\/p>\n<p>Whether this should be part of informed consent in therapy is open to debate.<\/p>\n<p> <!-- Form created by Optin Forms plugin by WPKube: create beautiful optin forms with ease! --> <!-- https:\/\/wpkube.com\/ --><!--optinforms-form5-container--> <!-- \/ Optin Forms --> <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/therapy-childhood-memories-27848\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: New research suggests that reflecting on a parent in therapy can subtly alter how a person recalls feelings from childhood, even if the question is neutral. 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