Positive Emotion Regulation Training for Depression

描述(由申请人提供)：青壮年抑郁障碍非常普遍，并与心理社会和全球功能严重缺陷有关。使用认知行为技术来解决负面情绪失调的抑郁症治疗方法已经取得了一定的成功。然而，临床心理学和情感神经科学的研究表明，积极情绪的失调是抑郁症的特征，并将其与其他情绪障碍区分开来。目前这项研究的目标是开发一种治疗方法，旨在改善抑郁症患者的积极情绪调节。干预将改编自书面披露范例(WDP)。传统的WDP侧重于记录过去的创伤事件，并展示了身体和心理健康的改善。研究人员最近敦促探索WDP作为精神病理学的临床干预措施。本研究将采用WDP指导焦虑症患者在几个写作环节中品味积极事件，以增强和扩展积极情绪的体验。治疗效果将通过检查干预后抑郁症状的变化以及积极情绪、品尝和归因技能、愉快生活事件和行为激活系统的变化来评估。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Depressive disorders in young adulthood are highly prevalent and have been associated with serious deficits in psychosocial and global functioning. Treatments for depression that employ cognitive-behavioral techniques to address the dysregulation of negative emotion have been moderately successful. However, research in clinical psychology and affective neuroscience indicates that the dysregulation of positive emotion characterizes depression and distinguishes it from other mood disorders. The goal of the current study is to develop a treatment aimed at improving positive emotion regulation among individuals with depression. The intervention will be adapted from the written disclosure paradigm (WDP). The traditional WDP focuses on writing about past traumatic events and demonstrates improvements in physical and psychological health. Researchers have recently urged the exploration of WDP as a clinical intervention for psychopathology. The present study will adapt the WDP to direct dysphoric individuals to savor positive events in several writing sessions in order to enhance and extend the experience of positive emotion. Treatment efficacy will be assessed by examining post-intervention changes in depressive symptomatology as well as changes in positive emotion, savoring and attribution skills, pleasant life events and the behavioral activation system.