Feeling Wrong Never Felt So Right: Reducing the Risk of Depression in Children by Using ACT and Interoceptive Exposures to Address Emotion Dysregulation and Distress Intolerance

Christina Brooks, Psy.D., and Monique Reynolds, Ph.D.

1.5 CE Credits

Online via Zoom

Emotion dysregulation and distress intolerance are transdiagnostic features of childhood anxiety and behavioral disorders. When left untreated/undertreated, children experience functional difficulties and maladaptive coping behaviors develop. As a result, children are vulnerable to worsening of symptoms and depression. ACT and interoceptive exposures can be used to improve distress tolerance and emotion regulation and reduce the vulnerability of depression. These interventions can be used to address similar parental difficulties, further improving outcomes for these children and families.

 After attending this workshop, attendees will be able to 

• Recognize symptoms of poor distress tolerance and emotional dysregulations across common childhood and adolescent Mental Health and behavioral diagnosis
• Apply principle components of interoceptive exposures and ACT to target improvement in tolerance of unpleasant emotional and physiological experiences and effective regulation of emotions
• Identify the supportive roles that parents can play to reinforce development of distress tolerance and emotion regulation

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