Trial reportDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2013
Mental imagery, emotion and psychopathology across child and adolescent development.
Trial report in Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05507385 (A Brief Intervention Targeting Anhedonia in Adolescents), which is not on this map. Cited by 31 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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A Brief Intervention Targeting Anhedonia in Adolescents: a Feasibility Randomised Controlled Trial
Who cites it
31 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Mental imagery of suicide and non-suicidal self-injury: A meta-analysis and systematic review.Clinical psychology review · 2023Pooled it
- Emotion Regulation Strategies in Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms in Youth: A Meta-Analytic Review.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2017Pooled it
- Mental Imagery of the Self in Body Dysmorphic Disorder: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review.Clinical psychology & psychotherapyPooled it
- Early Evaluation of IMAGINATOR 2.0 Intervention Targeting Self-Harm in Young People: Single-Arm Feasibility Trial.JMIR formative research · 2026Trial
- Mental imagery in adolescent PTSD patients after child abuse: a comparison with matched healthy controls.BMC psychiatry · 2022Trial
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- Children require more evidence to revise beliefs under gradual perceptual change.Psychological research · 2026Article
- The Experience of Goals and Rewards in Young People Who Self-Harm: A Qualitative Exploration.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Spontaneous reinstatement of episodic memories in the developing human brain.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
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- 'Flashforward' mental imagery in adolescents: exploring developmental differences and associations with mental health.Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy · 2024Article
- In the moment social experiences and perceptions of children with social anxiety disorder: A qualitative study.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2023Article
- The phenomenology of mental imagery in people with intellectual disabilities.Psychology and psychotherapy · 2023Article
- Obsessional intrusive thoughts in children: An interview based study.Psychology and psychotherapy · 2023Article
- Fear in the Theater of the Mind: Differential Fear Conditioning With Imagined Stimuli.Psychological science · 2022Article
- A New Social Picture Task to Assess Interpretation Bias related to social fears in adolescents.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2022Article
- Characterising Negative Mental Imagery in Adolescent Social Anxiety.Cognitive therapy and research · 2022Article
- Flashforward imagery in speech anxiety: Characteristics and associations with anxiety and avoidance.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Suicidal Mental Imagery in Psychiatrically Hospitalized Adolescents.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2021Article
- Measuring Prospective Imagery: Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version of the Prospective Imagery Task.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Mental imagery-based interventions are receiving increasing interest for the treatment of psychological disorders in adults. This is based on evidence that mental imagery potently influences the experience of emotion in non-clinical samples, and that a number of psychological disorders are marked by syndrome-specific, distressing abnormalities in mental imagery. During childhood and adolescence, neurocognitive development impacting mental imagery processes may moderate its relationship with clinically-relevant emotional symptoms at a number of potential loci. Crucially, these changes could impact vulnerability to distressing mental imagery and the efficacy of mental imagery-based clinical interventions. This review synthesises evidence pertaining to developmental changes in the role and content of mental imagery, and in the cognitive sub-processes required to generate and sustain mental images. Subsequently, we discuss implications for understanding the developmental relationship between mental imagery, emotion and psychopathology. Translational cognitive neuroscience research investigating the content, emotional impact and neurocognitive substrates of mental imagery across development may reveal insights into trajectories of vulnerability to symptoms of a number of psychological disorders. If proper consideration is given to developmental factors, techniques based on mental imagery may be valuable as part of a treatment armoury for child and adolescent clinical populations and those at risk of emotional disorders.
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