SynthesisClinical child and family psychology review2017
Meta-analysis of the Long-Term Treatment Effects of Psychological Interventions in Youth with PTSD Symptoms.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effectiveness of Interventions for Interpersonal Functioning Among Adolescents With Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms: A Meta-Analysis.Journal of adolescence · 2026Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Decision-Analytic Modelling Approaches in Economic Evaluations of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Treatments.PharmacoEconomics · 2026Pooled it
- Interventions Involving Caregivers for Children and Adolescents Following Traumatic Events: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2023Pooled it
- The Efficacy of Two Group Interventions on Mental Representations, Attachment Security, and Trauma Symptoms in Ethnically and Socioeconomically Minoritized Young Adolescents in an Urban Middle School.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Trial
- Long-term effectiveness and trajectories of change after treatment with SMART, a transdiagnostic CBT for adolescents with emotional problems.BMC psychology · 2022Trial
- Psychotherapy for PTSD - a scoping review of how change during treatment has been studied.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2026Article
- Posttraumatic stress disorder from early childhood to late adolescence: a resilience-oriented approach to prevention, diagnosis, and clinical management.Discover mental health · 2026Review
- Effectiveness of early psychotherapeutic interventions for trauma-exposed children and adolescents: insights from a trauma outpatient clinic.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
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- Psychological therapies for post-traumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Article
- The promise of compassion-based therapy as a novel intervention for adolescent PTSD.Journal of affective disorders reports · 2024Article
- Successes, challenges, and opportunities in providing evidence-based teletherapy to children who have experienced trauma as a response to Covid-19: A national survey of clinicians.Children and youth services review · 2023Article
- Long-term follow-up of a multimodal day clinic, group-based treatment program for patients with very high risk for complex posttraumatic stress disorder, and for patients with non-complex trauma-related disorders.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Suicidal ideation, self-injury, aggressive behavior and substance use during intensive trauma-focused treatment with exposure-based components in adolescent and young adult PTSD patients.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2022Article
- Evaluation of an Early Intervention Model for Child and Adolescent Victims of Interpersonal Violence.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and the Developing Adolescent Brain.Biological psychiatry · 2021Review
- BEST FOR CAN - bringing empirically supported treatments to children and adolescents after child abuse and neglect: study protocol.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2020Article
- A multi-method and multi-informant approach to assessing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children.International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England) · 2020Article
- Lost in Transition? Evidence-Based Treatments for Adolescents and Young Adults with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Results of an Uncontrolled Feasibility Trial Evaluating Cognitive Processing Therapy.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2020Review
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Abstract
To date, the long-term effectiveness of psychological treatments in reducing post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in children and adolescents has not been investigated extensively. This meta-analysis quantifies the long-term effects of psychological interventions in children and adolescents with PTSD symptoms and examines the period-dependent follow-up (FU) effects based on 47 studies. The mean FU effect sizes (ESs) for PTSD symptoms ranged from medium (between treatment ESs for controlled studies) to large (within treatment ESs for uncontrolled studies; pooled analysis including all studies). These effects were comparable to the post-treatment ESs, which suggests that the treatment effects remained stable. ESs did not differ depending on the length of the FU period (</>6 months). In randomized controlled trials (RCTs), as well as trials conducted with treatment as usual or active control groups, the long-term treatment effects for the reduction of PTSD symptoms were small. These results demonstrate the long-term effectiveness of psychological interventions in the treatment of PTSD in youth. However, more studies should include a FU assessment. Further research should focus on RCTs with long-term assessments, report comorbid symptoms and investigate the influence of potential moderators. Research is also warranted to determine how to improve the long-term effects of treatments for PTSD in youth.
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