Smartphone-based Cognitive Emotion Regulation Training for Unpaid Primary Caregivers of Persons With Alzheimer's Disease

The project will randomly assign Alzheimer's Disease or related dementia (AD/ADRD) unpaid primary caregivers to receive a brief course of reappraisal training using either psychological distancing or reinterpretation, or to a no regulation natural history control condition. In the Psychological Distancing group, participants will be asked to down-regulate negative emotion by reappraising an emotional stimulus as an objective, impartial observer.

The project will randomly assign Alzheimer's Disease or related dementia (AD/ADRD) unpaid primary caregivers to receive a brief course of reappraisal training using either psychological distancing or reinterpretation, or to a no regulation natural history control condition. In the Reinterpretation group, participants will be asked to down-regulate negative emotion by imagining a better outcome (when engaging with an emotional stimulus) than what initially seemed apparent.