Reducing symptoms of major depressive disorder through a systematic training of general emotion regulation skills: Protocol of a randomized controlled trial

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Ehret, Anna M ^a   Kowalsky, Judith ^a   Rief, Winfried ^a   Hiller, Wolfgang ^b   Berking, Matthias ^a,c  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotion regulation; Major depressive disorder; Randomized controlled trial; Skills training; Treatment

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

AFFECT; AFFECT REGULATION TRAINING; ARTICLE; BRIEF SYMPTOM INVENTORY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION ANXIETY STRESS SCALE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONALITY; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; JOB STRESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL HEALTH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT; PARANOIA; PHOBIA; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE AFFECT SCHEDULE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL STRESS; STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEW FOR DSM DISORDERS; TRAINING; ADULT; GROUP THERAPY; HAIR; HAMILTON DEPRESSION RATING SCALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF REPORT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; EMOTION; METHODOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84896738274     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-14-20     Document Type: Article

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