ArticleEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2021
Improving emotion recognition is associated with subsequent mental health and well-being in children with severe behavioural problems.
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Compared Effectiveness of a Short Computer-based Emotion Recognition Training in Conduct Disorder and Autistic Spectrum Disorder Patients
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- Impact VR: A Socioemotional Intervention for Reducing CU Traits, Conduct Problems, and Aggression in Youth with Conduct Disorder.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Trial
- A new approach to assessment for young children referred by education professionals for socio-emotional, behavioural, and cognitive difficulties.JCPP advances · 2026Article
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- Effect of facial emotion recognition learning transfers across emotions.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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- Moderating Effects of Emotional Recognition Competency in Rejective Parenting and Adolescent Depression and Aggression.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Assessing the effectiveness of online emotion recognition training in healthy volunteers.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
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- Emotional Recognition Training Enhances Attention to Emotional Stimuli Among Male Juvenile Delinquents.Psychology research and behavior management · 2023Article
- Facial emotion recognition in adopted children.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
- Oxytocin administration versus emotion training in healthy males: considerations for future research.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
Impaired emotion recognition is a transdiagnostic risk factor for a range of psychiatric disorders. It has been argued that improving emotion recognition may lead to improvements in behaviour and mental health, but supportive evidence is limited. We assessed emotion recognition and mental health following a brief and targeted computerised emotion recognition training in children referred into an intervention program because of severe family adversity and behavioural problems (n = 62; aged 7-10). While all children continued to receive their usual interventions, only children impaired in emotion recognition (n = 40) received the emotion training. Teachers blind to whether or not children had received the training rated children's mental health problems before and 6 months after the training. Participants who received the emotion training significantly improved their recognition of negative and neutral facial expressions. Although both groups showed improved behaviour at follow-up, the reduction in behavioural problems was only significant in children who received the emotion training. Post-training emotion recognition scores predicted mental health problems 6 months later independently of initial emotion recognition ability and severity of behavioural problems. The results are consistent with the view that targeting emotion recognition can improve longer term functioning in individuals with disruptive behaviour, although further research using fully randomised designs is needed before causal conclusions can be drawn with confidence.
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