Trial reportBehaviour research and therapy2016
Reducing risk for anxiety and depression in adolescents: Effects of a single-session intervention teaching that personality can change.
Trial report in Behaviour research and therapy, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 4 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 57 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Effects of a Single-session Implicit Theories of Personality Intervention on Recovery From Social Stress and Long-term Psychological Functioning in Early Adolescents
Targeting Adolescent Depressive Symptoms: Effects of Two Single-Session, Online Interventions
Promoting Resilience in Teens With ASD
A Single-session Growth Mindset Intervention for Children and Young People With Mental Health Difficulties: a Randomised Controlled Trial
Who cites it
57 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Self-administered single-session interventions for mental health in young people: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026Pooled it
- A systematic review of brief respiratory, embodiment, cognitive, and mindfulness interventions to reduce state anxiety.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Pooled it
- Single-Session Therapy by Appointment for the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders in Youth and Adults: A Systematic Review of the Literature.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Pooled it
- Development and evaluation of a digital single-session reappraisal intervention to shift negative self-focused social media interpretations.Behaviour research and therapy · 2026Trial
- Results from a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Single-Session Growth-Mindset Intervention for Internalizing Symptoms in Autistic Youth.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Trial
- A pilot randomized controlled trial of a brief intervention targeting positive valence systems function to prevent internalizing symptoms in college students.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2025Trial
- Investigating the Efficacy of the Web-Based Common Elements Toolbox (COMET) Single-Session Interventions in Improving UK University Student Well-Being: Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Trial
- A Smartphone-Based Implicit Theories Intervention for Health Behavior Change: Randomized Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2023Trial
- The online mindset intervention 'The Growth Factory' for adolescents with intellectual disabilities: moderators and mediators.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR · 2022Trial
- Borderline Personality Traits and Emotion Regulation Strategies in Adolescents: The Role of Implicit Theories.Child psychiatry and human development · 2022Trial
- A randomised controlled trial of a relationship-focussed mobile phone application for improving adolescents' mental health.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2020Trial
- Do Immediate Gains Predict Long-Term Symptom Change? Findings from a Randomized Trial of a Single-Session Intervention for Youth Anxiety and Depression.Child psychiatry and human development · 2019Trial
- Study protocol: a randomized controlled trial testing the effectiveness of an online mindset intervention in adolescents with intellectual disabilities.BMC psychiatry · 2018Trial
- Randomized Trial of a Single-Session Growth Mind-Set Intervention for Rural Adolescents' Internalizing and Externalizing Problems.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Trial
- Cultivating emotional resilience in adolescent girls: Effects of a growth emotion mindset lesson.Child developmentTrial
- Identifying the active ingredients of a behavioral activation-based digital single-session intervention targeting depression.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2026Article
- Conversational AI should fill the white space in mental health care, not replace humans.NPJ digital medicine · 2026Review
- Effects of a Digital Parent-Child Single-Session Growth Mindset Intervention on Adolescent Depression and Anxiety Symptoms: A Three-Arm Waitlist Randomized Controlled Trial.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2026Article
- The efficacy of an online self-administered single session intervention to promote growth mindset in adolescents: A randomised controlled trial.JCPP advances · 2026Article
- Child and adolescent psychiatry: challenges, solutions, opportunities, and future directions.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2026Article
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Abstract
Efforts to reduce youth mental health problems have advanced greatly but have not lowered overall rates of youth mental illness. Thus, a need exists for disseminable, mechanism-targeted approaches to reducing risk of youth psychopathology. Accordingly, we conducted a randomized-controlled trial testing whether a single-session intervention teaching growth personality mindsets (the belief that personality is malleable) reduced known risk factors for anxiety and depression in adolescents experiencing or at risk for internalizing problems (N = 96, ages 12-15). Compared to a supportive-therapy control, a 30-min computer-guided mindset intervention strengthened adolescents' perceived control; this improvement was associated with increases in growth mindsets. Further, electrodermal activity recovery slopes showed that youths receiving the mindset intervention recovered from a lab-based social stressor over three times as fast as control group youths. Improvements in growth mindsets and perceived control were linked with faster stress recovery. Results suggest a disseminable strategy for reducing internalizing problem risk among adolescents.
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