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Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Adolescent Depression: A Benchmarking Investigation
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Weersing, V. Robin; Iyengar, Satish; Kolko, David J.; Birmaher, Boris; Brent, David A. – Behavior Therapy, 2006
In this study, we examined the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for adolescent depression. Outcomes of 80 youth treated with CBT in an outpatient depression specialty clinic, the Services for Teens at Risk Center (STAR), were compared to a "gold standard" CBT research benchmark. On average, youths treated with CBT in STAR…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Treatment, Therapy, Depression (Psychology), Cognitive Restructuring
Predicting Eating Disorder Group Membership: An Examination and Extension of the Sociocultural Model
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Engler, Patricia A.; Crowther, Janis H.; Dalton, Ginnie; Sanftner, Jennifer L. – Behavior Therapy, 2006
The purpose of this research was to examine and extend portions of the sociocultural model of bulimia nervosa (Stice, E. (1994). Review of the evidence for a sociocultural model of bulimia nervosa and an exploration of the mechanisms of action. "Clinical Psychology Review," 14, 633-661; Stice, E., & Agras, W. S. (1998). Predicting onset and…
Descriptors: Group Membership, Females, Eating Disorders, Behavior Modification
Social Effectiveness Therapy for Children: Five Years Later
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Beidel, Deborah C.; Turner, Samuel M.; Young, Brennan J. – Behavior Therapy, 2006
Social Effectiveness Therapy for Children (SET-C) is a comprehensive behavioral treatment combining social skills training, peer generalization experiences, and individualized in vivo exposure for the treatment of social phobia in youth. SET-C results in positive treatment outcome and its effects are maintained at least 3 years later. In this…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Treatment, Adolescents, Therapy, Behavior Modification
Benefits of Expressive Writing in Lowering Rumination and Depressive Symptoms
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Gortner, Eva-Marie; Rude, Stephanie S.; Pennebaker, James W. – Behavior Therapy, 2006
Depression-vulnerable college students (with both elevated prior depressive symptoms and low current depressive symptoms) wrote on 3 consecutive days in either an expressive writing or a control condition. As predicted, participants scoring above the median on the suppression scale of the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Gross & John, 2003)…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Expressive Language, Depression (Psychology), Adolescents