Trial reportJournal of consulting and clinical psychology2014
Juvenile justice girls' depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation 9 years after Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care.
Trial report in Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01341626 (Juvenile Justice Girls), which is not on this map. Cited by 28 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Juvenile Justice Girls: Pathways to Adjustment and System Use in Young Adulthood
Who cites it
28 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 46 citations in OpenAlex.
- Community-based mental health interventions for reducing youth suicidal thoughts and behaviours: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Ineligibility for and Refusal to Participate in Randomized Controlled Trials That Have Studied Impact on Suicide-Related Outcomes in the United States: A Meta-Analysis.The Journal of clinical psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- The study of effect moderation in youth suicide-prevention studies.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2018Pooled it
- Meta-analysis with standardized effect sizes from multilevel and latent growth models.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2017Pooled it
- Addressing Suicide and Mental Health Through Universal Childhood Intervention: Results from The Seattle Social Development Project.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Trial
- Effects of a Military Parenting Program on Parental Distress and Suicidal Ideation: After Deployment Adaptive Parenting Tools.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2016Trial
- The Effects of the Family Bereavement Program to Reduce Suicide Ideation and/or Attempts of Parentally Bereaved Children Six and Fifteen Years Later.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2016Trial
- Annual Research Review: Beyond the target - understanding crossover effects in family-centered prevention.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026Review
- Independent contribution of emotion dysregulation to suicide attempts in adolescents beyond the role of depressive symptoms.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The Landscape of Randomized Controlled Trials for Behavioral Health-Focused Psychosocial Interventions for Youth in the Juvenile Legal System: A Systematic Review.Clinical psychology : a publication of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association · 2025Article
- Cognitive Dysfunction in the Addictions (CDiA): protocol for a neuron-to-neighbourhood collaborative research program.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Reducing Suicidal Ideation in Preadolescents With a History of Foster Care by Promoting School Readiness in Early Childhood.Child maltreatment · 2024Article
- Long-term Effects of the Family Check-Up on Suicidality in Childhood and Adolescence: Integrative Data Analysis of Three Randomized Trials.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023Article
- Child maltreatment and youth suicide risk: A developmental conceptual model and implications for suicide prevention.Development and psychopathology · 2023Article
- Reducing suicide risk in parentally bereaved youth through promoting effective parenting: testing a developmental cascade model.Development and psychopathology · 2023Article
- Preventing Youth Suicide: Potential "Crossover Effects" of Existing School-Based Programs.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023Review
- Comparative effectiveness of individual versus family-based substance use treatment on adolescent self-injurious thoughts and behaviors.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2022Article
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- Parenting in the Context of the Child: Genetic and Social Processes.Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development · 2022Article
- Expanding outcomes when considering the relative effectiveness of two evidence-based outpatient treatment programs for adolescents.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2020Observational
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Abstract
objectiveMultidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC) has been found to reduce delinquency among girls in juvenile justice through 2-year follow-up. Given that such girls are at elevated risk for suicide and depression into adulthood, we tested MTFC effects on long-term trajectories of suicidal ideation and depressive symptoms.
methodGirls (N = 166; mean [SD] age = 15.3 [1.2] years; 68% White) with a recent criminal referral who were mandated to out-of-home care were enrolled in 2 sequential cohorts. Girls were randomized to receive MTFC (n = 81) or group care (GC) treatment as usual (TAU; n = 85); the second MTFC cohort also received modules targeting substance use and risky sexual behavior. Depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation were assessed repeatedly through early adulthood (mean [SD] follow-up = 8.8 [2.9] years). Suicide attempt history was assessed in early adulthood.
resultsGirls assigned to MTFC showed significantly greater decreases in depressive symptoms across the long-term follow-up than GC girls (π = -.86, p < .05). Decreases in suicidal ideation rates were slightly stronger in MTFC than in GC as indicated by a marginal main effect (odds ratio [OR] = .92, p < .10) and a significant interaction that favored MTFC in the second cohort relative to the first (OR = .88, p < .01). There were no significant MTFC effects on suicide attempt.
conclusionsMTFC decreased depressive symptoms and suicidal thinking beyond the decreases attributable to time and TAU. Thus, MTFC has further impact on girls' lives than originally anticipated.
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