Facial Affect Sensitivity Training for Young Children With Callous-unemotional Traits

The FAST intervention program represents a novel computerized intervention for high-risk youth that strategically targets implicated facial affect sensitivity deficits directly via a computerized real-time automated feedback and incentive system to remediate callous-unemotional tendencies associated with behavioral dysfunction.

"This computerized task was developed to target implicit training of eye gaze but not facial emotion recognition per se via real-time feedback and incentives. On each trial, a fixation cross is followed by an emotional face with eyes directed either left, straight ahead, or right (balanced across expressions), followed by a response key. The child's task is to say which direction the eyes are looking (e.g., 1 or left). Stimuli are black and white standardized photographs of men and women models from the Ekman Pictures of Facial Affect each displaying the 3 gaze directions for 6 emotion expressions."