Reducing symptoms of major depressive disorder through a systematic training of general emotion regulation skills: protocol of a randomized control trial
Ehret A, Kowalsky J, Rief W, Hiller W, Berking M (2014)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2014
Journal
Publisher: BioMed Central
Pages Range: 20-31
Journal Issue: 14
Abstract
Major Depressive Disorder is one of the most challenging mental health problems of our time. Although effective psychotherapeutic treatments are available, many patients fail to demonstrate clinically significant improvements. Difficulties in emotion regulation have been identified as putative risk and maintaining factors for Major Depressive Disorder. Systematically enhancing adaptive emotion regulation skills should thus help reduce depressive symptom severity. However, at this point, no study has systematically evaluated effects of increasing adaptive emotion regulation skills application on symptoms of Major Depressive Disorder. In the intended study, we aim to evaluate stand-alone effects of a group-based training explicitly and exclusively targeting general emotion regulation skills on depressive symptom severity and assess whether this training augments the outcome of subsequent individual cognitive behavioral therapy for depression.
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APA:
Ehret, A., Kowalsky, J., Rief, W., Hiller, W., & Berking, M. (2014). Reducing symptoms of major depressive disorder through a systematic training of general emotion regulation skills: protocol of a randomized control trial. BMC Psychiatry, 14, 20-31.
MLA:
Ehret, Anna, et al. "Reducing symptoms of major depressive disorder through a systematic training of general emotion regulation skills: protocol of a randomized control trial." BMC Psychiatry 14 (2014): 20-31.
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