Critical Decision Points for Augmenting Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed Adolescents: A Pilot SMART

Practice parameters recommend systematic assessment of depression symptoms over the course of treatment to inform treatment planning; however, there are currently no guidelines regarding how to use symptom monitoring to guide treatment decisions for psychotherapy. The current study compared two time points (week 4 and 8) for assessing symptoms during interpersonal psychotherapy for depressed adolescents (IPT-A) and explored four algorithms that use the symptom assessments to select the subsequent treatment.

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Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - October 26, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Meredith Gunlicks-Stoessel, Laura Mufson, Gail Bernstein, Ana Westervelt, Kristina Reigstad, Bonnie Klimes-Dougan, Kathryn Cullen, Aimee Murray, David Vock Tags: New Research Source Type: research