title: Contextual emotion regulation therapy: a developmentally based intervention for pediatric depression.
abstract: For this special issue about child and adolescent depression, the authors were asked to describe contextual emotion regulation therapy as an example of a developmentally informed psychosocial intervention. The article begins with the authors' definition of the elements that should comprise such an intervention. A succinct summary of this contextual emotion regulation therapy is then provided, including its explanatory paradigm of depression, followed by an exposition of how it addresses the various definitional criteria of a developmentally informed intervention. The article concludes with a brief overview of the challenges of implementing a developmentally sensitive psychotherapy for depressed children and adolescents.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. kovacs@pitt.edu
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kovacs
authors.forename: Nestor L
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Lopez-Duran
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology; D002665:Child Psychiatry / Q000193:education; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000628:therapy*; D002658:Developmental Disabilities / Q000628:therapy*; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods*