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Psychophysiological Assessment of the Effectiveness of Emotion Regulation Strategies in Childhood
Published on: February 11, 2017
Evaluating the effectiveness of interventions in child psychiatry
1Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology, University College London, United Kingdom.
Objective:
To review the nature of outcome measures used to evaluate psychosocial treatment in children.
Method:
Recent research findings that highlight the importance of outcome data and justify randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are reviewed.
Results:
Outcome measures of child therapy can focus on changes in the child's symptoms, adaptation to the psychosocial environment, cognitive or emotional capacities, and changes in interaction with others. They can also assess service utilization, related costs, and the suffering of those associated with the child before and after treatment. RCTs remain the optimal methodology, notwithstanding current critiques.
Conclusion:
Studies assessing the effectiveness of psychosocial treatment must include a definition of various outcomes and use appropriate methodologies to measure them.
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