ArticleJournal of affective disorders2015
Examining reward-seeking, negative self-beliefs and over-general autobiographical memory as mechanisms of change in classroom prevention programs for adolescent depression.
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- Reward Processing in Depression: A Conceptual and Meta-Analytic Review Across fMRI and EEG Studies.The American journal of psychiatry · 2018Pooled it
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- Modulation of anterior cingulate cortex reward and penalty signalling in medication-naive young-adult subjects with depressive symptoms following acute dose lurasidone.Psychological medicine · 2019Trial
- Factors associated with mental health resilience in the child, adolescent and adult offspring of depressed parents: A systematic literature review.Journal of affective disorders reports · 2025Article
- Speech feature identification model for depressed individuals with suicidal ideation based on autobiographical memory.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Psychosocial moderators of the effect of lifestyle interventions in primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Modifiable protective factors for mental health resilience in the offspring of depressed parents: A high-risk longitudinal cohort spanning adolescence and adulthood.JCPP advances · 2024Article
- The relationship between mental health and risky decision-making in children and adolescents: a scoping review.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Universal Mindfulness Training in Schools for Adolescents: a Scoping Review and Conceptual Model of Moderators, Mediators, and Implementation Factors.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2022Article
- Towards an Individual Differences Perspective in Mindfulness Training Research: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Review
- The neuroscience and context of adolescent depression.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2016Review
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backgroundEffective methods to prevent adolescent depressive symptoms could reduce suffering and burden across the lifespan. However, psychological interventions delivered to adolescents show efficacy only in symptomatic or high-risk youth. Targeting causal risk factors and assessing mechanistic change can help devise efficacious universal or classroom based prevention programs.
methodsA non-randomized longitudinal design was used to compare three classroom-based prevention programs for adolescent depression (Behavioral Activation with Reward Processing, "Thinking about Reward in Young People" (TRY); Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)), and determine cognitive mechanisms of change in these programs. Cognitive mechanisms examined were reward-seeking, negative self-beliefs (assessed with behavioral tasks) and over-general autobiographical memory. 256 healthy adolescents aged 13-14 participated with 236 (92%) and 227 (89%) completing the pre- and post-assessments.
resultsTRY was the only intervention associated with a reduction in depressive symptoms at follow-up. Reward-seeking increased following TRY. In the other programs there were non-significant changes in cognitive mechanisms, with more reflective negative self-beliefs in CBT and fewer over-general autobiographical memories in MBCT In the TRY program, which focused on increasing sensitivity to rewarding activities, reward seeking increased and this was associated with decreased depressive symptoms. LIMITATIONS: Due to the infeasibility of a cluster randomized controlled trial, a non-randomized design was used.
conclusionsIncreased reward-seeking was associated with decreased depressive symptoms and may be a mechanism of depressive symptom change in the intervention with a focus on enhancing sensitivity and awareness of reward. This study provides preliminary evidence to suggest that incorporating activities to enhance reward sensitivity may be fruitful in randomized controlled trials of universal prevention programs for depression.
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