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Addressing The Complexity Of Mental Health Care For Youth Experiencing Houselessness, Sarah Hamilton May 2023

Addressing The Complexity Of Mental Health Care For Youth Experiencing Houselessness, Sarah Hamilton

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Children and youth experiencing houselessness have a unique set of mental health needs due to the traumatic experience of houselessness during childhood and the other adverse childhood experiences that often coincide with houselessness (van der Kolk, 2003; Wong et al., 2016). They face immense barriers in access to mental health care due to logistical factors as a result of their housing status and socio-structural factors (Krippel et al., 2020; Gallardo et al., 2020; Bradley et al., 2018). However, existing studies reveal a lack of evidence-based interventions for children and youth experiencing houselessness and a lack of insight from mental health …


Invalidation And Emotion Regulation: How Does Emotional Invalidation Relate To The Efficacy And Endorsement Of Emotion Regulation Strategies?, Johanna N. Caskey Apr 2022

Invalidation And Emotion Regulation: How Does Emotional Invalidation Relate To The Efficacy And Endorsement Of Emotion Regulation Strategies?, Johanna N. Caskey

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Past research has reliably shown that emotional invalidation poses a threat to one's capacity for successful emotion regulation, though the relationship between the two is complex. The pair of studies presently discussed sought to understand how perceptions of emotional invalidation relate to the success (Study 1) and endorsement (Study 2) of emotion regulation strategies. Study 1 did not provide support for the prediction that perceptions of invalidation would undermine the success of the particular emotion regulation strategy of affect labeling, generating a new hypothesis: invalidation may be more related to how we conceive of the process of regulating our emotions, …