SynthesisAdministration and policy in mental health2025
Effect of Psychosocial Interventions on Children and Youth Emotion Regulation: A Meta-Analysis.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A systematic review of internet addiction in hospitalized adolescents: proposing a hospital-adapted moderated dual mediation model of emotional dysregulation and social compensation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Elements in Mental Health Interventions Associated with Effects on Emotion Regulation in Adolescents: A Meta-Analysis.Administration and policy in mental health · 2022Pooled it
- Online Transdiagnostic Emotion Regulation Treatment for Adolescents With Mental Health Problems: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2025Trial
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- Optimizing prompt frequency in a brief online emotion regulation training for community adults: A three-arm randomized controlled trial.Internet interventions · 2026Article
- Emotion regulation and moral and social rule awareness in early childhood: an exploratory correlational study.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Parent-reported emotion regulation in children with dyslexia and/or developmental language disorder.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The role of negative life events and parental mental health in adolescent self-regulation: insights from the longitudinal ABCD study.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2025Article
- Family Strengthening to Prevent Family Separation and Entrance into Residential Care Institutions in Sierra Leone: A Quasi-experimental Study.Child & youth care forum · 2025Article
- A Screening Measure of Emotion Regulation Difficulties: Polish Norms and Psychometrics of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale-8 (DERS-8).Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for children on anxiety, attentional control, and emotion regulation in children: a study protocol.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
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- Editorial: Noninvasive brain stimulation: a promising approach to study and improve emotion regulation.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
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Abstract
To investigate the effect of psychosocial interventions on emotion regulation outcomes in children and youth (0-23 years). We conducted a meta-analysis using a three-level modeling approach extracting multiple effect-sizes from experimental and quasi-experimental studies. We included 40 interventions from 35 publications involving 3,891 participants and extracted 258 posttreatment effect sizes. Analyses were performed to assess intervention effects on emotion regulation, moderating effects of inclusion of acceptance focus and other potential moderators. Additionally, we examined intervention effects on mental health outcomes. Interventions showed a significant small-to-medium effect on emotion regulation (d = 0.37, 95% CI [0.22, 0.51], p < .001). Similar effects on were found regardless of acceptance-focus. Interventions significantly associated with a higher level of effect (p ≤ 0.045) included ACT, DBT, CBT and behavior parent training interventions. Significant small-to-medium effects were found for mental health outcomes (d = 0.39, 95% CI [0.25, 0.53], p < .001), with a correlation of .56 between overall outcomes across domains. Meta-regression results indicated that psychosocial interventions are moderately effective in improving emotion regulation, with no significant difference in inclusion of acceptance-focus. Findings suggest that emotion regulation is a transdiagnostic process that may inform the development of more beneficial interventions.
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