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Which depressed patients respond to cognitive-behavioral treatment?
1Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Pendlebury, United Kingdom.
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
|January 28, 1998
Abstract
Objective:
To identify predictors of remission from major depression in adolescent patients given cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT).
Method:
The study was based on 50 patients aged between 10 and 17 years who were obtained from two studies of CBT. A wide range of possible predictors was examined.
Results:
Sixty percent remitted by the end of treatment. In multivariate analyses remission was associated with younger age and less social impairment.
Conclusions:
Depressed patients who respond to CBT tend to be younger and less severely impaired than those who do not respond.