Positive Emotion Regulation Training for Depression

描述（由申请人提供）：青年期抑郁症非常普遍，并与严重的社会心理和整体功能缺陷有关。利用认知行为技术来解决负面情绪失调的抑郁症治疗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，积极情绪失调是抑郁症的特征，并将其与其他情绪障碍区分开来。当前研究的目标是开发一种旨在改善抑郁症患者积极情绪调节的治疗方法。干预措施将改编自书面披露范例（WDP）。传统的《世界开发计划署》侧重于记录过去的创伤事件，并展示身心健康的改善。研究人员最近敦促将WDP作为精神病理学的临床干预手段进行探索。本研究将采用WDP指导焦虑个体在几次写作会话中品味积极事件，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、品味和归因技能、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.