Emotional Dysregulation, Disordered Eating, and Self-harm: Associations and Mediating Pathways

Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.22976
In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Naomi Warne, a Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, and Dr. Helen Bould, a consultant senior lecturer in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the same institution, discuss their Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry (JCPP) paper, ‘Emotional dysregulation in childhood and disordered eating and self-harm in adolescence: prospective associations and mediating pathways‘ (doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13738). There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.
Discussion points include;

• The comorbidity between disordered eating, self-harm, and also emotional dysregulation
• The three potential mediators of the association between emotional dysregulation and subsequent disordered eating and self-harm.
• The relevance of social cognition and experiences of being bullied as potential mediators
• How mediating pathways appear to differ by sex and outcomes
• Suggestions for interventions based on potential useful targets for the prevention and treatment of disordered eating and self-harm
• Advice for CAMH professionals and policy makers.

In this series, we speak to authors of papers published in one of ACAMH’s three journals. These are The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP); The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal; and JCPP Advances.