What is Negative Emotions

Mental illnesses have a disabling impact on an individual and require individual biopsychosocial formulation for patients for a comprehensive management. Mental illnesses often take a chronic course and in certain conditions, stabilizing the patients from active and recurring symptoms itself becomes a challenging task. Stabilization process has been used in different context in different mental illness conditions like substance abuse, psychosis, and trauma. The process is vital for achieving optimum treatment outcome, especially in patients with traumatic stress. Negative experiences and emotions associated with the trauma have potential to facilitate brain inflammation in later stage, thus an important intervention target. Several approaches of psychosocial management of trauma are in use; however, the indication of cognitive skill training in stabilization of trauma patients needs further exploration and support. The chapter highlights the implication of cognitive skill training focusing on the underlying domains that aid in stabilization process in patients with traumatic stress.