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Importance of Emotion Regulation Training for Children and Adolescents

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Emotion regulation is a critical component of affect education that has attracted a significant amount of research and clinical interest. This aspect of emotion education has not been overlooked in that strategies to downregulate excessive and maladaptive emotion are included in a wide variety of Tier 1, 2, and 3 interventions. Emotion regulation is a complex concept; however, even developing a definition has currently generated discussion and debate resulting in no agreed upon definition (Bridges, Denham, & Ganiban, 2004; Eisenberg & Spinrad, 2004; Greenberg, 2007; Hoeksma, Oosterlaan, & Schipper, 2004).

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