PSY 30312 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Tads
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Treatment of depression: access to care: Less than 50% of youth with depression actually receive services for treatment. Reason= parents may just see the depressive episode as a phase / may not believe the symptoms to be genuine / may have parental shame associated with kids having depression. In addition, kids with depression do not often bother anyone so parents may not see need for treatment: types of treatments, gold standard= cognitive behavioral therapy (cbt) Also effective= interpersonal psychotherapy for adolescent depression effective is the primary stressor is related to relationship/ interpersonal functioning. In terms of use in teens, there are concerns that this related to higher levels of suicidality. Arguments in favor of the use of ssris say that the associated suicidality risk is not clinically significant: tads: Study that evaluated the treatment for adolescents with depression: looked at 12-17 year olds with mdd and randomized them into one of four conditions:
