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Promoting Positive Emotions in Adolescents Using Positive Events Training: An Indicated Approach

NCT07288541 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 36

Last updated 2025-12-17

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Research shows that high positive emotionality is an essential ingredient in building resilience in youngsters, especially those with a vulnerability to develop depressive symptomatology. It may empower them against actual depression and its various long-term adverse outcomes. One way to achieve positive emotions is via the recollection and anticipation of specific positive events. Therefore, to cultivate positive emotions in young people, a user-friendly group training program was developed, translated from basic research findings: Positive Event Training (PET). Through PET, adolescents learn to solidify positive memories and positive plans for the future. In this project, a comprehensive evaluation of PET's efficacy is conducted using a robust methodology with vulnerable youth.

Conditions

  • Emotional Distress
  • Anhedonia

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Positive Events Training (PET)

Positive Event Training or PET is a group-based training program combining Memory Specificity Training (MEST; Raes, 2007) and Future Event Specificity Training (FEST; Dutch version of Hallford et al. (2020): Changing the Future: An initial test of Future Specificity Training).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Research Foundation - Flanders (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek)

    collaborator OTHER

  • KU Leuven

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Filip Raes · KU Leuven

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
16 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-12-31
Primary Completion
2027-01-31
Completion
2027-01-31

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