Emotion-Regulation Training Reduces Distress and Changes the Brain, Team Reports

Emotion-regulation training reduces distress and changes the brain, team reports

A five-week training intervention taught college students to better regulate their emotions in response to negative events, a new study finds. After the training, the students reported less emotional distress when viewing negative images or thinking about difficult events in their own lives, and brain scans revealed corresponding changes in the spontaneous functional connectivity of their brains.

Mentalising and Emotion Regulation in Children and Families

Children referred to mental health services frequently experience a mixture of emotional and behavioural difficulties. Anxiety may coexist with anger, withdrawal with disruptive behaviour, or sadness with conflict at home and school. Many evidence-based treatments were developed around a single diagnosis, creating a mismatch between research and the complexity clinicians encounter in routine practice. Midgley et al. (2023) describe the Emotion R…