Trial reportJournal of child and adolescent psychopharmacology2015
Concurrent treatment for adolescent and parent depressed mood and suicidality: feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary findings.
Trial report in Journal of child and adolescent psychopharmacology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 38 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy With and Without Narrative Assessment and Suicide Attempts: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JAMA network open · 2025Pooled it
- Parental Involvement in Adolescent Psychological Interventions: A Meta-analysis.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2024Pooled 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
- Systematic Literature Review of Attempted Suicide and Offspring.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Pooled it
- Effects of a Multifamily App-Enhanced Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Delivered via Telehealth for Parents of Adolescents With Mood or Psychotic Spectrum Disorders.Behavior therapy · 2025Trial
- Family-Based Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, and ADHD for a Parent and Child.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- A comparison of the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural interventions based on delivery features for elevated symptoms of depression in adolescents: A systematic review.Campbell systematic reviews · 2024Review
- [The German S3 guideline for depressive disorders in childhood and adolescence: new developments].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2023Review
- Adolescents hospitalised for suicidality: biomarkers, social and affective predictors: a cohort study.BMJ open · 2022Article
- A Pilot Randomized Control Trial of a Dyadic Safety Planning Intervention: Safe Actions for Families to Encourage Recovery (SAFER).Couple & family psychology · 2022Article
- Psychological Treatments for Depression in Adolescents: More Than Three Decades Later.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
- Feasibility and acceptability of an online response inhibition cognitive training program for youth with Williams syndrome.International review of research in developmental disabilities · 2020Article
- Concurrent Treatment of Depression in Parents and Adolescents: A Case Example.Cognitive and behavioral practice · 2017Article
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- Evidence Base Update of Psychosocial Treatments for Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors in Youth.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Review
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8 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveThe purpose of this study was to conduct a treatment development study to examine the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of treating depressed, suicidal adolescents and their depressed parent concurrently in a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) protocol (Parent-Adolescent-CBT [PA-CBT]).
methodsA randomized, controlled, repeated measures design was used to test the hypothesis that PA-CBT would lead to greater reductions in suicidality and depression compared with Adolescent Only CBT (AO-CBT). Participants included 24 adolescent and parent dyads in which the adolescent met American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th ed. (DSM-IV) criteria for current major depressive episode (MDE) and the parent met DSM-IV criteria for current or past MDE.
resultsThe concurrent protocol was found to be feasible to implement with most depressed adolescents and parents. Adolescent ratings of program satisfaction were somewhat lower in PA-CBT, suggesting that some teens view treatment negatively when they are required to participate with a parent. The concurrent treatment protocol was more effective in reducing depressed mood in the parent-adolescent dyad at the end of maintenance treatment (24 weeks) than treating an adolescent alone for depression; the largest effect was on parental depressed mood. This difference between dyads was no longer significant, however, at the 48 week follow-up. Adolescent and parent suicidal ideation improved equally in both groups during active and maintenance treatment, and remained low at follow-up in both groups.
conclusionsThe PA-CBT protocol is feasible to conduct and acceptable to most but not all adolescents. The strongest effect was on parental depressed mood. A larger study that has sufficient power to test efficacy and moderators of treatment outcome is necessary to better understand which adolescents would benefit most from concurrent treatment with a parent.
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