Chunk #126 — Urgency and Psychopathology — Urgency and Psychological Interventions — Urgency-based Interventions as Distinct from Sensation Seeking-based Interventions
It seems unlikely that these kinds of prevention efforts would be effective for high-urgency adolescents; learning alternative ways to seek sensation would not address their affect-based risk. Instead, training on how to tolerate intense affect, analogous to distress tolerance training, may prove beneficial for this group of adolescents (Baer, Fischer, & Huss, 2005; Clyne & Blampied, 2004; Linehan, 1993; Robins & Chapman, 2004). Perhaps early exposure to affect tolerance training could reduce the rates of rash action among high-urgency adolescents, thus (a) reducing their risk for problem levels of involvement in risky behaviors and (b) providing them more opportunities to learn effective coping strategies. Thus, identification of urgency as distinct from sensation seeking may lead to an effective prevention tool for a group of high-risk adolescents who are not sensation seekers.
