Journal
PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH
Volume 199, Issue 3, Pages 201-207Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2012.04.033
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Emotion recognition; Child psychopathology; Conduct problems; Randomized controlled trial; Callous-unemotional traits; Trans-diagnostic models
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- Australian Research Council
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Impairments in emotion recognition skills are a trans-diagnostic indicator of early mental health problems and may be responsive to intervention. We report on a randomized controlled trial of Emotion-recognition-training (ERT) versus treatment-as-usual (TAU) with N=195 mixed diagnostic children (mean age 10.52 years) referred for behavioral/emotional problems measured at pre- and 6 months post-treatment. We tested overall outcomes plus moderation and mediation models, whereby diagnostic profile was tested as a moderator of change. ERT had no impact on the group as a whole. Diagnostic status of the child did not moderate outcomes: however, levels of callous-unemotional (CU) traits moderated outcomes such that children with high CU traits responded less well to TAU, while ERT produced significant improvements in affective empathy and conduct problems in these children. Emotion recognition training has potential as an adjunctive intervention specifically for clinically referred children with high CU traits, regardless of their diagnostic status. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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