Identifying intervention strategies for preventing the mental health consequences of childhood adversity: A modified Delphi study.

ABSTRACT: Exposure to childhood adversity is a powerful risk factor for psychopathology. Despite extensive efforts, we have not yet identified effective or scalable interventions that prevent the emergence of mental health problems in children who have experienced adversity. In this modified Delphi study, we identified intervention strategies for effectively targeting both the neurodevelopmental mechanisms linking childhood adversity and psychopathology - including heightened emotional reactivity, difficulties with emotion regulation, blunted reward processing, and social information processing biases, as well as a range of psychopathology symptoms. We iteratively synthesized information from experts in the field and relevant meta-analyses through three surveys, first with experts in intervention de

SUBMITTER: Rith-Najarian LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8139285 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature