Emotion Regulation Training to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among Depressed Young Adults in Southern Mississippi

The single-session emotion regulation skills training will blend psychotherapeutic approaches that emphasize effective ER. First, participants will be taught to adopt a detached (i.e., 'distanced') and nonjudgmental attitude towards an emotional situation. Detachment, or 'distancing' as it will be introduced to participants, will be taught by examining the situation with objectivity or putting spatial or temporal distance between the current moment and the situation. Second, research participants will be taught reframing. Specifically, they will be introduced to the relationship between thoughts and emotions and how to find interpretations that are less upsetting in order to be more effective when upset. Participants will identify elements of a situation that they did not pay attention to or information that was missing, and to reframe their thoughts based on the full picture. The emotion regulation training is expected to take approximately 30-45 minutes.