Testing the biobehavioral regulation of negative emotion as a mechanism of change in transdiagnostic youth psychotherapy: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Madison Aitken, Brendan F. Andrade, Claire E. Krasinkiewicz, Sabrina W. S. Chan, Sera P. Gandhi, Jessica W. Pun, Andrew Hamilton-Wright, Wei Wang, Leah Sack, John R. Weisz, Robert Bancroft, Jo Henderson, Kristel Thomassin · 2026
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Madison Aitken and co-authors set out, in a 2026 protocol paper, a trial to test if calm control of ill feelings is how youth therapy works. Youth anxiety, low mood, and rule breaks are common, yet therapy helps just a fair amount. A weak grip on ill feelings cuts across all three ills, but few tests have read it as the path of change. The trial will use MATCH, a known program that mixes parts for anxiety, low mood, trauma, or conduct ills. That mix suits a test of shared paths.
Two sites will run the trial, and youth will be split by chance to therapy or a control. Body and behavior reads of ill-feeling control will track the course. The aim is proof of the path, so care can be tuned to it.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Madison Aitken, Brendan F. Andrade, Claire E. Krasinkiewicz, Sabrina W. S. Chan, Sera P. Gandhi, Jessica W. Pun, Andrew Hamilton-Wright, Wei Wang, Leah Sack, John R. Weisz, Robert Bancroft, Jo Henderson, Kristel Thomassin |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 60 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |