Emotion regulation training as a treatment element for externalizing problems in adolescence: A randomized controlled micro-trial

Brinke, Lysanne W. te; Menting, Ankie; Schuiringa, Hilde D.; Deković, Maja; Weisz, John R.; Castro, Bram Orobio de

doi:10.1016/j.brat.2021.103889

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“…Constructing a short, feasible scale was important because longer or more complicated instruments are not suited for repeated measurements in children (Casey et al, 2020 ). For the aggression and anger regulation scales, we used similar items as assessed in a recently published intervention trial examining weekly emotion regulation and aggression in adolescents (te Brinke et al, 2021 ). We conducted a pilot study in another sample of children ( n = 89) to assess the quality of these items, which led us to replace the anger regulation item ‘This week I was angry' with “This week I managed to do something against my anger” to improve internal consistency.…”

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Capturing mechanisms of change: Weekly covariation in anger regulation, hostile intent attribution, and children's aggression

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Aggressive Behavior

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Interventions for children's aggression typically target assumed underlying mechanisms, such as anger regulation and hostile intent attribution. The expectation here is that targeting these mechanisms will result in within-person changes in aggression. However, evidence for these mechanisms is mostly based on between-person analyses. We, therefore, examined whether within-person changes in adaptive anger regulation and hostile intent attribution covaried with within-person changes in children's aggression.Children (N = 223; age 7-12; 46% boys) filled out four weekly report measures to assess adaptive anger regulation, hostile intent attribution, and aggression. The psychometric properties of these novel measures were adequate. Results of multi-level analyses revealed within-person effects: weekly changes in adaptive anger regulation and hostile intent attribution covaried with changes in children's aggression. This corresponded with between-person findings on the same data: children with lower levels of adaptive anger regulation and higher levels of hostile intent attribution reported more aggression than other children. These findings support the idea that targeting anger regulation and hostile intent attribution in interventions may lead to changes in individual children's aggression.

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Capturing mechanisms of change: Weekly covariation in anger regulation, hostile intent attribution, and children's aggression

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et al. 2022

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“…te Brinke et al (28) recruited a total of 108 adolescents with elevated externalizing behavior, who were randomized to either a treatment (emotion regulation training) group or a control group. Emotion regulation strategies and externalizing problems were assessed at baseline and at two treatment phases.…”

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Rethinking Autism Intervention Science: A Dynamic Perspective

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Recent advances in longitudinal methodologies for observational studies have contributed to a better understanding of Autism as a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by within-person and between-person variability over time across behavioral domains. However, this finer-grained approach to the study of developmental variability has yet to be applied to Autism intervention science. The widely adopted experimental designs in the field—randomized control trials and quasi-experimental designs—hold value for inferring treatment effects; at the same time, they are limited in elucidating what works for whom, why, and when, given the idiosyncrasies of neurodevelopmental disorders where predictors and outcomes are often dynamic in nature. This perspective paper aims to serve as a primer for Autism intervention scientists to rethink the way we approach predictors of treatment response and treatment-related change using a dynamic lens. We discuss several empirical gaps, and potential methodological challenges and opportunities pertaining to: (1) capturing finer-grained treatment effects in specific behavioral domains as indexed by micro-level within-person changes during and beyond intervention; and (2) examining and modeling dynamic prediction of treatment response. Addressing these issues can contribute to enhanced study designs and methodologies that generate evidence to inform the development of more personalized interventions and stepped care approaches for individuals on the heterogeneous spectrum of Autism with changing needs across development.

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“…In addition to TARA, Weisz and Bearman (2020) came up with FIRST intervention strategies that have helped clinicians come up with a personalized, evidence-based approach for addressing internalizing disorders in youth and adolescents. Additionally, emotion-regulation training has also emerged as another intervention that shown considerable promise for sustaining change in youth with a range of psychopathology (te Brinke et al, 2021). Hopefully, more interventions will come to help bolster childhood resilience to hard life events while focusing on transdiagnostic perspectives to addresses issues of comorbidity and increase our understanding heterogenous presentations of internalizing disorders and greater psychopathology in adolescents and youth (Gee et al, 2021, Finsaas et al, 2018, Latzman et al, 2020.…”

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The Future of Psychotherapy for Youth

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Despite countless modifications to adapt adult psychotherapy to treat pediatric populations, recent meta-analytic findings have found only modest effect sizes for the treatment of pediatric depression. Additionally, recent neuroscientific evidence suggests that most mental health disorders share greater comorbidity with other distinct mental health disorders and also have greater within-disorder heterogeneity than previously thought. This review aims to integrate recent findings of analytic reviews with developments in neuroscience to encourage the field to think differently about how to best improve pediatric psychotherapy and our understanding of the developing brain. This article examines why our approach to treating mood disorders in the pediatric population must change based on our current understanding of the neurocognitive and psychosocial etiologies of these disorders and to highlight the importance transdiagnostic perspectives. Perhaps, neuroscientific methods can one day become adjunctive to psychotherapy to help personalize approaches, and to help provide valuable insight into emerging psychopathology even before symptoms manifest.

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Emotion regulation training as a treatment element for externalizing problems in adolescence: A randomized controlled micro-trial

Cited by 17 publications

References 54 publications

Capturing mechanisms of change: Weekly covariation in anger regulation, hostile intent attribution, and children's aggression

Capturing mechanisms of change: Weekly covariation in anger regulation, hostile intent attribution, and children's aggression

Rethinking Autism Intervention Science: A Dynamic Perspective

The Future of Psychotherapy for Youth

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