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ReviewJournal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53

Evidence Base Update of Psychosocial Treatments for Child and Adolescent Depression.

V Robin Weersing, Megan Jeffreys, Minh-Chau T Do, Karen T G Schwartz, Carl Bolano

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Review in Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 161 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

161 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

V Robin Weersinga SDSU/UC San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology.
Megan Jeffreysa SDSU/UC San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology.
Minh-Chau T Doa SDSU/UC San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology.
Karen T G Schwartza SDSU/UC San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology.
Carl Bolanob Department of Psychology , San Diego State University.

Funding

2/2-Family Cognitive Behavioral Prevention of Depression in Youth and ParentsR01MH100260 · NIMH · SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI WEERSING, V ROBIN · 2014 to 2018
$1.7M
1/2-Brief CBT for Pediatric Anxiety and Depression in Primary CareR01MH084935 · NIMH · SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI WEERSING, V ROBIN · 2010 to 2014
$1.5M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH084935NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH100260
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Depression in youth is prevalent and disabling and tends to presage a chronic and recurrent course of illness and impairment in adulthood. Clinical trial research in youth depression has a 30-year history, and evidence-based treatment reviews appeared in 1998 and 2008. The current review of 42 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) updates these reviews to include RCTs published between 2008 and 2014 (N = 14) and reevaluates previously reviewed literature. Given the growing maturity of the field, this review utilized a stringent set of methodological criteria for trial inclusion, most notable for excluding trials based in subclinical samples of youth that had been included in previous reviews (N = 12) and including well-designed RCTs with null and negative findings (N = 8). Findings from the current review suggest that evidence for child treatments is notably weaker than for adolescent interventions, with no child treatments achieving well-established status and the evidentiary basis of treatments downgraded from previous reports. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for clinically depressed children appears to be possibly efficacious, with mixed findings across trials. For depressed adolescents, both CBT and interpersonal psychotherapy are well-established interventions, with evidence of efficacy in multiple trials by independent investigative teams. This positive conclusion is tempered by the small size of the interpersonal psychotherapy literature (N = 6) and concern that CBT effects may be attenuated in clinically complicated samples and when compared against active control conditions. Data on predictors, moderators, and mediators are examined and priorities for future research discussed.

Indexed as

Evidence-Based MedicineAdaptation, PsychologicalAdolescentChildCognitive Behavioral TherapyDepressionDepressive DisorderHumansMalePsychotherapySecondary Prevention

Identifiers

PMID27870579
PMCPMC5296370

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