Cognitive Reappraisal in Adolescents With Major Depression

The training procedure is adapted from a study by Denny \& Ochsner (2014). Before the task, participants are instructed that they will be presented pictures and that these pictures will be preceded by a condition specific cue signaling the appropriate strategy during picture viewing. Participants are instructed to indicate their affective response to the image on a rating scale. The task involves 4 conditions: 1) Negative-decrease: participants are asked to view negative pictures and to decrease their affective response by reappraising the negative event. 2) Negative-attend/ 3) Neutral-attend/ 4) Positive-attend: participants are asked to view pictures and to respond naturally to them without trying to alter their affective response. The training task will be repeated over 4 training sessions.

The task in the control group is implemented to account for unspecific effects and is as similar as possible to the CR task except that it involves no negative-decrease (i.e., no reappraisal) condition. Instead, the control task only involves the three attend conditions (negative- attend, neutral-attend, positive-attend).