Group CBT for Adolescent Depression

The following excerpts are quoted from: Med-Brief Thursday, February 25, 1999 from Intelligent Network Concepts, Inc. incinc@tiac.net http://www.tiac.net/users/incinc/ (c) 1996 Intelligent Network Concepts, Inc.

• note: cognitive-behavioral therapy involves attempting to change patients' attitudes and reactions to specific triggers of depression.


• researchers at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Oregon, randomized 87 depression teenagers to either eight weeks of group therapy or to placement on a waiting list (no therapy during the study) to collect data.


• found that treated patients were more than twice as likely to recover from depression, as evidenced by eight or more weeks of minimal or absent depression symptoms, compared to non-treated teens.


• authors further note that males were more likely to recover from depression after being treated than females (81% vs. 60.4%, respectively.


• the study is in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (1999;38:263-270).



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