Trial reportJournal of consulting and clinical psychology2018
A randomized controlled trial of emotion regulation therapy for generalized anxiety disorder with and without co-occurring depression.
Trial report in Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 35 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Emotion Regulation Therapy for Young Adults With Clinical Worry and Rumination
Open Trial of Emotion Regulation Training Via Telehealth for Distressed Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Who cites it
35 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 117 citations in OpenAlex.
- Efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy in treating repetitive negative thinking, rumination, and worry - a transdiagnostic meta-analysis.Psychological medicine · 2025Pooled it
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of transdiagnostic cognitive behavioural therapies for emotional disorders.Nature human behaviour · 2024Pooled it
- Psychotherapies for Generalized Anxiety Disorder in Adults: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials.JAMA psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Transdiagnostic Cognitive Control Training for Patients Waiting for Outpatient Psychotherapy: Randomized Clinical Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2025Trial
- Temporal dynamics of CBT emotion regulation training in patients with major depression using ecological momentary assessment.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- A randomized controlled trial of emotion regulation therapy for cancer caregivers: A mechanism-targeted approach to addressing caregiver distress.Contemporary clinical trials · 2022Trial
- Preliminary Efficacy of an Emotion Regulation Intervention on Physical Activity and Depressive and Anxious Symptoms in Individuals in Cardiac Rehabilitation.The Journal of cardiovascular nursingTrial
- Factor structures and psychometric properties of three brief versions of the difficulties in emotion regulation scale in the Korean population.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- A multi-method assessment of emotional processes predicting longitudinal anxiety symptom trajectories in an adolescent clinical sample.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2024Article
- The relationship between expressive suppression, therapeutic bond, and treatment outcomes of a positive affect intervention for adults with anxiety and/or depression.Cognitive behaviour therapy · 2024Article
- Expressive suppression mediates the relationship between sleep quality and generalized anxiety symptomology.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Emotion Dysregulation and E-Cigarette Expectancies among College Student E-Cigarette Users.Substance use & misuse · 2024Article
- Reducing cognitive arousal and sleep effort alleviates insomnia and depression in pregnant women with DSM-5 insomnia disorder treated with a mindfulness sleep program.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2023Article
- Examining the associations between difficulties in emotion regulation and symptomatic outcome measures among individuals with different mental disorders.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Does the Emotion Dysregulation Model Predict Symptoms Beyond the Metacognitive Model?Journal of rational-emotive and cognitive-behavior therapy : RET · 2022Article
- Deconstructing emotion regulation in schizophrenia: the nature and consequences of abnormalities at the identification stage.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2022Article
- Psychotherapeutic treatments for generalized anxiety disorder: cognitive and behavioral therapies, enhancement strategies, and emerging efforts.Expert review of neurotherapeutics · 2022Review
- Decentering predicts attenuated perseverative thought and internalizing symptoms following stress exposure: A multi-level, multi-wave study.Behaviour research and therapy · 2022Article
- Review of Perioperative Music Medicine: Mechanisms of Pain and Stress Reduction Around Surgery.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Review
- Moderators and mediators of emotion regulation therapy for psychologically distressed caregivers of cancer patients: secondary analyses from a randomized controlled trial.Acta oncologica (Stockholm, Sweden) · 2021Article
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
Abstract
objectiveGeneralized anxiety disorder (GAD) and major depression (MDD), especially when they co-occur, are associated with suboptimal treatment response. One common feature of these disorders is negative self-referential processing (NSRP; i.e., worry, rumination), which worsens treatment outcome. Emotion Regulation Therapy (ERT) integrates principles from affect science with traditional and contemporary cognitive-behavioral treatments to identify and modify the functional nature of NSRP by targeting motivational and regulatory mechanisms, as well as behavioral consequences.
methodBuilding on encouraging open trial findings, 53 patients with a primary diagnosis of GAD (43% with comorbid MDD) were randomly assigned to immediate treatment with ERT (n = 28) or a modified attention control condition (MAC, n = 25).
resultsERT patients, as compared with MAC patients, evidenced statistically and clinically meaningful improvement on clinical indicators of GAD and MDD, worry, rumination, comorbid disorder severity, functional impairment, quality of life, as well as hypothesized mechanisms reflecting mindful attentional, metacognitive, and overall emotion regulation, which all demonstrated mediation of primary outcomes. This superiority of ERT exceeded medium effect sizes with most outcomes surpassing conventions for a large effect. Treatment effects were maintained for nine months following the end of acute treatment. Overall, ERT resulted in high rates of high endstate functioning for both GAD and MDD that were maintained into the follow-up period.
conclusionsFindings provide encouraging support for the efficacy and hypothesized mechanisms underlying ERT and point to fruitful directions for improving our understanding and treatment of complex clinical conditions such as GAD with co-occurring MDD. (PsycINFO Database Record
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