Journal article
Attachment-based family therapy for depressed adolescents: a treatment development study
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, v 41(10), pp 1190-1196
Oct 2002
PMID: 12364840
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Abstract
To design a treatment manual and adherence measure for attachment-based family therapy (ABFT) for adolescent depression and to collect pilot data on the treatment's efficacy.
Over a period of 2 years, 32 adolescents meeting criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD) were randomly assigned to 12 weeks of ABFT or a 6-week, minimal-contact, waitlist control group. The sample was 78% female and 69% African American; 69% were from low-income, inner-city communities.
At post-treatment, 81% of the patients treated with ABFT no longer met criteria for MDD, in contrast with 47% of patients in the waitlist group. Mixed factorial analyses of variance revealed that, compared with the waitlist group, patients treated with ABFT showed a significantly greater reduction in both depressive and anxiety symptoms and family conflict. Of the 15 treated cases assessed at the follow-up, 13 patients (87%) continued to not meet criteria for MDD 6 months after treatment ended.
ABFT appears to be a promising treatment and worthy of further development.
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- Title
- Attachment-based family therapy for depressed adolescents: a treatment development study
- Creators
- Guy S Diamond - University of PennsylvaniaBrendali F Reis - University of PennsylvaniaGary M Diamond - Ben-Gurion University of the NegevLynne Siqueland - University of PennsylvaniaLisa Isaacs - Hahnemann University Hospital
- Publication Details
- Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, v 41(10), pp 1190-1196
- Publisher
- Lippincott
- Grant note
- R21NIH52920-01AB / PHS HHS
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Center for Family Intervention Science
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000178203700008
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0036782123
- Other Identifier
- 991019168026204721
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- Domestic collaboration
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- Web of Science research areas
- Pediatrics
- Psychiatry
- Psychology, Developmental