Parents' coping with their adolescent's negative emotions following internet-delivered emotion regulation therapy for adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury disorder: a secondary analysis of a randomised clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) among adolescents is linked to adverse outcomes for youth and their families. While parental involvement is considered essential in treating adolescent NSSI, the effects on parents remain unclear.

Objective

To evaluate if Internet-delivered Emotion Regulation Individual Therapy for Adolescents (IERITA) adjunctive to treatment as usual (TAU) is superior to TAU alone in improving parental coping with adolescents' negative emotions, the durability of potential effects and whether reductions in parents' minimising of their adolescent's emotions mediate adolescent outcomes.

Methods

166 adolescents with NSSI disorder (93% female; mean (SD) age=15.0 (1.2) years) and their parents (83% female; mean (SD) age=46.5 (5.1) years) were ran

SUBMITTER: Ojala O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12863314 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature