Emotion regulation and depressive course of illness – a reminder-based online reappraisal training (C01)

• Subject Area: Clinical Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 521379614

The mechanisms of emotion regulation training have mainly been investigated in healthy individuals. It remains unclear how effective emotion regulation training is in improving emotion regulation in patients with affective disorders and whether this could also influence the long-term course of the illness in patients. In project C01, patients with depression train their emotion regulation for eight weeks. We multi-methodologically investigate whether our training changes emotion regulation (brain networks of emotion regulation, flexibility of emotion regulation strategy choice) and whether targeting the mechanisms through training improves the course of illness.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 393: Trajectories of Affective Disorders: Cognitive-emotional Mechanisms of Symptom Change
• Applicant Institution: Philipps-Universität Marburg
• Project Heads: Dr. Katharina Förster; Professor Dr. Stefan Hofmann