An Open Trial Investigation of a Transdiagnostic Group Treatment for Children with Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms

Autor/inn/en	Bilek, Emily L.; Ehrenreich-May, Jill
Titel	An Open Trial Investigation of a Transdiagnostic Group Treatment for Children with Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms
Quelle	In: Behavior Therapy, 43 (2012) 4, S.887-897 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0005-7894
DOI	10.1016/j.beth.2012.04.007
Schlagwörter	Behavior Modification; School Personnel; Anxiety Disorders; Depression (Psychology); Emotional Disturbances; Severity (of Disability); Therapy; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Outcomes of Treatment; Children; Intervention; Behavior Problems; Cognitive Restructuring; Family (Sociological Unit) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Behaviour modification; Verhaltensänderung; Schulpersonal; Gefühlsstörung; Schweregrad; Therapie; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Child; Kind; Kinder; Familie
Abstract	The current study investigates the feasibility and preliminary outcomes associated with a transdiagnostic emotion-focused group protocol for the treatment of anxiety disorders and depressive symptoms in youth. Twenty-two children (ages 7 to 12; M = 9.79) with a principal anxiety disorder and varying levels of comorbid depressive symptoms were enrolled in an open trial of the Emotion Detectives Treatment Protocol (EDTP; Ehrenreich-May & Bilek, 2009), an intervention adapted from existent unified protocols for the treatment of emotional disorders among adults and adolescents. Results indicate that participants experienced significant improvements in clinician-rated severity of principal anxiety disorder diagnoses (d = 1.38), the sum of all anxiety and depressive disorder severity ratings (d = 1.07), and child-reported anxiety (d = 0.47) and parent-reported depressive symptoms (d = 0.54) at the posttreatment assessment. EDTP had good retention rates and reports of high satisfaction. Thus, preliminary evidence suggests that EDTP is a feasible and potentially efficacious treatment of youth anxiety disorders and co-occurring depressive symptoms. Children experiencing a range of internalizing symptoms may benefit from this more generalized, emotion-focused treatment modality, as it offers flexibility to families and the mental health clinician, while maintaining a concurrent focus on the provision of cognitive-behavioral treatment skills vital to the amelioration of anxiety and depressive disorder symptoms in youth. (Contains 3 tables and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10