Trial reportEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2021
A comprehensive mapping of outcomes following psychotherapy for adolescent depression: The perspectives of young people, their parents and therapists.
Trial report in European child & adolescent psychiatry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Qualitative perceptions of child and youth mental health services by caregivers in the WHO European Region: a systematic review of qualitative literature.European journal of public health · 2026Pooled it
- A meta-analysis of influencing factors of non-suicidal self-injury behavior in adolescents with depression.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Next-Generation Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Depression: Integrating Digital Tools, Teletherapy, and Personalization for Enhanced Mental Health Outcomes.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Pooled it
- Using large language models to detect outcomes in qualitative studies of adolescent depression.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2026Article
- Measurement-Based Care for Depression in Youth: Practical Considerations for Selecting Measures to Assess Depression, Associated Features and Functioning.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Review
- Outcomes that Matter to Youth and Families in Behavioral Health Services.Administration and policy in mental health · 2025Article
- Humanistic Therapy for Young People: Client-Perceived Helpful Aspects, Hindering Aspects, and Processes of Change.Journal of child and family studies · 2025Article
- CBT+ Training Initiative in Washington State Community Mental Health: An Evaluation of Child Clinical Outcomes.Community mental health journal · 2024Article
- Ethnic differences in treatment outcome for children and young people accessing mental health support.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- Behavioral Health Services Outcomes That Matter Most to Caregivers of Children, Youth, and Young Adults with Mental Health Needs.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Treatment "non-responders": the experience of short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy among depressed adolescents, their parents and therapists.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- How do we know whether treatment has failed? Paradoxical outcomes in counseling with young people.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- What treatment outcomes matter in adolescent depression? A Q-study of priority profiles among mental health practitioners in the UK and Chile.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- Unraveling the core symptoms of mental health in senior grade three students- a network analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
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- "I wanted to hide but also to be found": the high school experiences of young adults who grew up in the same home as a sibling with depression.BMC psychology · 2023Article
- Understanding Treatment Needs of Youth in a Remote Intensive Outpatient Program Through Solicited Journals: Quality Improvement Analysis.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- Psychological therapists' perceptions of adolescent depression and its treatment: A mixed methods online survey.Clinical child psychology and psychiatry · 2023Article
- Outpatient care for adolescents' and young adults' mental health: promoting self- and others' understanding through a metacognitive interpersonal therapy-informed psychological intervention.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- What treatment outcomes matter most? A Q-study of outcome priority profiles among youth with lived experience of depression.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
As mental health systems move towards person-centred care, outcome measurement in clinical research and practice should track changes that matter to young people and their families. This study mapped the types of change described by three key stakeholder groups following psychotherapy for depression, and compared the salience of these outcomes with the frequency of their measurement in recent quantitative treatment effectiveness studies for adolescent depression.Using qualitative content analysis, this study identified and categorized outcomes across 102 semi-structured interviews that were conducted with depressed adolescents, their parents, and therapists, as part of a randomized superiority trial. Adolescents had been allocated to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Short-Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, or a Brief Psychosocial Intervention.The study mapped seven high-level outcome domains and 29 outcome categories. On average, participants discussed change in four domains and six outcome categories. The most frequently discussed outcome was an improvement in mood and affect (i.e., core depressive symptoms), but close to half of the participants also described changes in family functioning, coping and resilience, academic functioning, or social functioning. Coping had specific importance for adolescents, while parents and therapists showed particular interest in academic functioning. There was some variation in the outcomes discussed beyond these core themes, across stakeholder groups and treatment arms.Of the outcomes that were frequently discussed in stakeholder narratives, only symptomatic change has been commonly reported in recent treatment studies for adolescent depression. A shift towards considering multiple outcome domains and perspectives is needed to reflect stakeholder priorities and enable more nuanced insights into change processes.
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