Trial reportJournal of abnormal child psychology2018
Emotion-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Youth with Anxiety Disorders: A Randomized Trial.
Trial report in Journal of abnormal child psychology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
23 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Does Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Youth Anxiety Disorders Improve Social Functioning and Peer Relationships?Clinical child and family psychology review · 2023Pooled it
- Are young people with primary social anxiety disorder less likely to recover following generic CBT compared to young people with other primary anxiety disorders? A systematic review and meta-analysis.Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy · 2021Pooled it
- Brief, Non-Pharmacological, Interventions for Pediatric Anxiety: Meta-Analysis and Evidence Base Status.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Pooled it
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- Exploring the Mechanisms in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Anxious Children: Does Change in Emotion Regulation Explain Treatment Effect?Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023Trial
- Effect of a School-Based Anxiety Prevention Program among Primary School Children.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Trial
- Metacognitive beliefs and academic performance in Chinese middle school students: A moderated mediation model of emotional dysregulation and anxiety.The British journal of educational psychology · 2026Article
- How Many Anxious Kids in Community Mental Health Would Be Eligible for an RCT? And Does It Matter? Insights from a Naturalistic Sample and a Non-Systematic Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Evaluating the efficacy of psychological therapies for generalised anxiety disorder in children and adolescents: A systematic review and narrative synthesis.JCPP advances · 2026Article
- Emotion Regulation in Children and Adolescents with Social Anxiety Disorder: Differences in Strategy Use and Repertoire Compared to Specific Phobias and Healthy Controls.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- Reductions in Anxiety are Associated with Decreased Expressive Suppression and Increased Cognitive Reappraisal After Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment: A Naturalistic Study in Youth.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- Effects of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy-Based Educational Intervention Addressing Fine Particulate Matter Exposure on the Mental Health of Elementary School Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A Narrative Review to Identify Promising Approaches for Digital Health Interventions to Support Emotion Regulation for Adolescents With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.JMIR mental health · 2025Review
- The effects of training female students in emotion regulation techniques on their social problem-solving skills and social anxiety: a randomized controlled trial.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2025Article
- What Emotion Regulation Strategies are Associated with a General Psychopathology Factor (p) in Adolescence? Identifying Possible Transdiagnostic Targets for Intervention.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2024Article
- Emotional and socio-cognitive processing in young children with symptoms of anxiety.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
- The Role of Emotion Regulation and Executive Functioning in the Intervention Outcome of Children with Emotional and Behavioural Problems.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- A systematic review of neural, cognitive, and clinical studies of anger and aggression.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Investigating the effect of cognitive-behavioral educational intervention on the development of female teenagers' social skills in Khomeini Shahr.Journal of education and health promotion · 2022Article
- The Need to Develop an Individualized Intervention for Mathematics Anxiety.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Difficulties with emotion regulation are a core feature of anxiety disorders (ADs) in children and adults. Interventions with a specific focus on emotion regulation are gaining empirical support. Yet, no studies to date have compared the relative efficacy of such interventions to existing evidence-based treatments. Such comparisons are necessary to determine whether emotion-focused treatments might be more effective for youth exhibiting broad emotion-regulation difficulties at pretreatment. This study examined an emotion-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy (ECBT) protocol in comparison to traditional cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) in a sample of children with a primary anxiety disorder diagnosis. Moderation analyses examined whether children with higher levels of emotion dysregulation at pretreatment would show greater levels of improvement in ECBT than CBT. Ninety-two youth ages 7 to 12 years (58% male) with a primary diagnosis of separation anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, or social phobia were included. Participants were randomly assigned to ECBT or CBT. Results showed that youth in both conditions demonstrated similar improvements in emotion regulation and that pretreatment levels of emotion dysregulation did not moderate treatment outcomes. Additional analyses showed that ECBT and CBT were similarly effective on diagnostic, severity, and improvement measures. Future work is needed to further explore the ways that emotion regulation is related to treatment outcome for anxious youth.
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