Emotion Regulation Group Skills Training for Adolescents and Parents

Emotion Regulation Group Skills Training for Adolescents and Parents: A Randomized Controlled Study in a Clinical Setting

To evaluate if emotion regulation group therapy skills training for adolescents and parents is an efficacious treatment when delivered as adjunctive to treatment as usual compared to a control group consisting of treatment as usual.

Inclusion criteria:

• Being enrolled as a patient at the child- and adolescent psychiatric clinic in Linköping
• Having an adult participant joining the skills training
• Being between the ages of 14-17 years
• Having sufficient knowledge of the Swedish language

Exclusion criteria:

• Clinical diagnosis of schizophrenia
• Clinical diagnosis of psychosis
• Clinical diagnosis of severe anorexia nervosa
• Clinical diagnosis of severe autism spectrum disorder
• Having a cognitive disability
• Having an ongoing drug or alcohol abuse
• Clinical diagnosis of bipolar disorder
• Insufficient knowledge of the Swedish language