Promoting Youth Self-Regulation through Psychotherapy: Redesigning Treatments to Fit Complex Youths in Clinical Care

Leveraging the developmental science of psychosocial risk to strengthen youth psychotherapy

“…The current state of psychotherapy research also leaves several crucial gaps in knowledgeincluding "for whom" a given treatment is most effective, "which treatment will work for which individual," and "under what circumstances" a specific treatment is likely to be optimal. To fill these and other scientific gaps, more work is needed to identify how the effectiveness of common EBPs such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), interpersonal therapy (IPT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and parent training programs is influenced by young people's exposure to various psychosocial risk factors and associated developmental disruptions underlying the emotional, behavioral, and cognitive self-regulatory processes that are central targets of these EBPs (Weisz, 2015).…”