Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Predict Depressive Symptom Trajectory from Early to Middle Adolescence

Gonçalves, Stefanie F.; Chaplin, Tara M.; Turpyn, Caitlin C.; Niehaus, Claire E.; Curby, Timothy W.; Sinha, Rajita; Ansell, Emily B.

doi:10.1007/s10578-019-00867-8

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“…Research suggests that emotion dysregulation is associated with both symptoms of anxiety and depression in adolescents (Schäfer et al, 2017). Results from Gonçalves et al (2019) suggest that emotion regulation deficits in early adolescence are associated with depressive symptoms both cross-sectionally and over time. It has also been found that increasing the capacity of adaptive emotion regulation acts as a mechanism of change across different psychiatric disorders and through different treatment modalities (Berking et al, 2019;Bjureberg et al, 2018;Wirtz et al, 2014).…”

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Sudden gains and large intersession improvements in internet-based psychodynamic treatment (IPDT) for depressed adolescents

Mechler

Lindqvist

Falkenström

et al. 2020

Psychotherapy Research

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Objective: Sudden gains (SGs) have often been found associated with better treatment outcome across different psychiatric disorders. However, no studies have evaluated SGs in internet-based treatment targeting adolescent depression. Method: The sample consisted of 66 adolescents diagnosed with major depressive disorder, attending psychodynamic internetbased treatment. Effects of SGs were evaluated at posttreatment and 6-month follow-up. We also evaluated effects of large intersession improvements (LIIs; sudden and relatively large gains, between sessions, without the stability criterion). Effects of SGs and LIIs early in treatment were also investigated. Results: A total of 17 patients (25.75%) experienced an SG. The effect of having an SG or early SG was non-significant after treatment (d = 0.48) and at follow-up (d = 0.66). However, having an LII was related to better outcome after treatment (d = 0.97) and at follow-up (d = 0.76). Early LIIs were associated with significantly better results at end of treatment (d = 0.72). Conclusions: The original criteria of SGs might be overly conservative and thus miss important improvements in depression. Relatively large intersession gains, regardless of stability, seem to be predictive of outcome.

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Sudden gains and large intersession improvements in internet-based psychodynamic treatment (IPDT) for depressed adolescents

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Lindqvist

Falkenström

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Psychotherapy Research

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“…One of the most widely investigated ability-based models of emotion regulation ( 23 ) described the following six abilities from an emotion regulation perspective: ( 1 ) emotional awareness; ( 2 ) emotional clarity; ( 3 ) behavioral regulation; ( 4 ) engagement in goal-directed cognition and behavior when distressed; ( 5 ) emotional acceptance; and ( 6 ) access to effective strategies for feeling better when distressed. Studies have shown that difficulties in the noted emotion regulation abilities, as measured by the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) ( 23 ), are related to higher severity of symptoms that characterize a wide range of mental health conditions, including generalized anxiety disorder and depression ( 24 , 25 ).…”

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Brief Report: Emotion Regulation Influences on Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms Across the Normative-Clinical Continuum

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Emotion regulation is theorized to be a transdiagnostic process and has been empirically shown to be associated with various mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions. However, the relationship between emotion regulation and internalizing and externalizing symptoms has yet to be characterized in a sample of individuals spanning normative and atypical development. Therefore, this study aimed to provide initial evidence for emotion regulation as a transdiagnostic process of internalizing and externalizing symptoms in a community sample of adolescents with and without neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental conditions. The sample consisted of 1,705 caregivers of adolescents aged between 11 and 17 years (Mage = 14.53, SDage = 1.96). Adolescents were typically developing or had a caregiver-reported diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or anxiety. The typically developing adolescents had significantly better caregiver-reported emotion regulation than adolescents with caregiver-reported neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental conditions. Additionally, emotion dysregulation significantly and positively correlated with and predicted internalizing and externalizing symptoms within each subgroup. Importantly, emotion dysregulation had a unique contribution to individual differences in the severity of internalizing and externalizing symptoms, above and beyond the diagnostic status. The research and translational implications of the study findings are discussed.

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“…A lack of interaction and emotional skills is often a part of mental and social problems for early adolescents (Gonçalves et al, 2019;Parker et al, 2006;Zins & Elias, 2006). These problems are also related to challenges in school and use of intoxicants (Zins & Elias, 2006).…”

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Scoping review and concept analysis of early adolescents’ emotional skills: Towards development of a music therapy assessment tool

Salokivi

Salanterä

Ala-Ruona

2021

Nordic Journal of Music Therapy

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Introduction: This paper describes the concept and content of early adolescents' emotional skills among the general population. The research literature contains many emotional skills-related terms with overlapping meanings, and it can be challenging to determine which are applicable for example, to a music therapy assessment tool. This study comprises the first phase of developing an assessment tool for early adolescents' emotional skills, namely, determining what is to be assessed. Method: A scoping review of the literature is presented with written definitions of emotional skills-related terms, as well as a concept analysis of the terms performed using Walker and Avant's method. Results: The components of early adolescents' emotional skills are presented. Early adolescents' emotional skills comprise several skill components as presented in the current research literature. These components help in understanding the multifaceted entirety of emotional skills. Discussion: This paper presents the term emotional skills as a practical, general term that includes the content of other emotional skills-related terms. The concept analysis' outcome, the components of early adolescents' emotional skills, is applicable to future research as a theoretical framework for developing an assessment tool for early adolescents' emotional skills. The components are also useful for music therapy clinicians to analyse their work with early adolescents and to communicate in detail the phenomenona related to emotional skills in therapy.

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Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Predict Depressive Symptom Trajectory from Early to Middle Adolescence

Cited by 54 publications

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Sudden gains and large intersession improvements in internet-based psychodynamic treatment (IPDT) for depressed adolescents

Sudden gains and large intersession improvements in internet-based psychodynamic treatment (IPDT) for depressed adolescents

Brief Report: Emotion Regulation Influences on Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms Across the Normative-Clinical Continuum

Scoping review and concept analysis of early adolescents’ emotional skills: Towards development of a music therapy assessment tool

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