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Alfiee M Breland-Noble1, Antoinette Burriss, H Kathy Poole
1Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA. brela001@mc.duke.edu
Abstract:
The authors describe and illustrate means of engaging depressed African American adolescents in treatment. Twenty-eight youth participated in focus groups or individual interviews. Using grounded theory and transcript based analysis, they derived 5 themes describing African American adolescents' experience of depression and suggested mechanisms for improving African American youth treatment engagement. Practitioners can educate African American youth about depression as a medical disorder, build trust, and apply innovative approaches to recognizing differential manifestations of depression in African American youth.
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