Do anxiety and depression symptoms moderate the effect of motivational enhancement therapy as a pretreatment to dialectical behaviour therapy skills training? A follow‐up analysis of a pilot randomised controlled trial for youth

AIM: We conducted a follow-up analysis of a pilot randomised controlled trial to examine whether baseline depression and anxiety symptoms moderated the impact of a motivational enhancement therapy (MET) pretreatment to dialectical behaviour therapy skill training (DBT-ST) for EA experiencing emotion dysregulation. METHODS: All participants completed a 12-week DBT-ST group intervention and participants in the MET/DBT-ST condition also completed …