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Research Agenda in Childhood Impairing Emotional Outbursts: A Report of the AACAP Presidential Taskforce on Emotional Dysregulation.

Robert R Althoff, Manpreet K Singh, Argyris Stringaris, John N Constantino, Lisa Amaya-Jackson, Tami D Benton, Christopher Bellonci, Jeff Q Bostic, Jaclyn Datar Chua, Robert L Findling and 6 more

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Robert R AlthoffLarner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
Manpreet K SinghUniversity of California, Davis but was with Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Argyris StringarisUniversity College London, London, United Kingdom.
John N ConstantinoChildren's Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.
Lisa Amaya-JacksonDuke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.
Tami D BentonChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Christopher BellonciHarvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Jeff Q BosticMaryland State Department of Education, Baltimore, Maryland.
Jaclyn Datar ChuaChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Robert L FindlingVirginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.
Cathryn A GalanterState University of New York Downstate and Kings County Hospital Center, Brooklyn, New York.
Ruth S GersonNYU Langone Health, New York, New York.
Jon M McClellanUniversity of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
Michael T SorterCincinnati Children's Hospital and the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.
James G WaxmonskyPenn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Gabrielle A CarlsonRenaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York.

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Abstract

Objective: As part of the 2019-2021 presidential term of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), the AACAP Presidential Initiative on Emotion Dysregulation in Youth Taskforce was established. The aim was to address emotion dysregulation in children and adolescents, focusing on developing methods for clinicians to identify, characterize, and treat impairing emotional outbursts along with development of a research agenda that would guide relevant researchers and research funders. One method to characterize emotion dysregulation was accomplished by recommendations for use of a diagnostic code that is available in the Method: The Taskforce specifically focused on aggressive behaviors and emotions associated with outbursts. The development of a research agenda took place over 2 years of examination of the current needs in the literature, with contributions from experts in the field. This work dovetailed with the efforts from the Congress on Pediatric Irritability and Dysregulation, which had been meeting since 2015 to advance research into the measurement, pathophysiology, and treatment of emotion regulation problems in youth. We concentrated on the central questions concerning the measurement of outbursts, key questions linking outbursts to other psychopathologies, and how behavior in outbursts is separable from typical behavior. Results: A description of the qualitative data gathering process is provided here, along with the following: recommendations in the research areas of measurement; pathophysiology; delineating outbursts from other psychopathologies; exploring the cultural, social, and interpersonal aspects of outbursts; understanding the prevention and treatment of outbursts; and exploring how outbursts manifest and are treated based on setting. Specific examples of research opportunities and future directions are provided. Conclusion: A call is made to funding agencies to examine the spaces within their strategic plans that will allow for engagement in critical efforts to improve the lives of children and adolescents with severe emotional outbursts-some of the most impaired individuals presenting for care in child and adolescent psychiatry.

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emotion regulationirritabilityoutburstsRDoCresearch

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PMCPMC11914913

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