Editorial: Optimizing Depression Prevention: The Way Forward?

Since the advent of cognitive −behavioral therapy (CBT) and interpersonal therapy in the 1960s and 1970s, the progress on “talking therapies” has been slow. An extensive review of prevention and treatment studies over the past 50 years has shown that, although the therapies are effective, for depression the effect size is moderate, even for treatment, and has not changed in 50 years,1 with some indication that efficacy may have decreased.2 The approaches used in treatment have also been the mainstay of depression prevention approaches,3,4 with evidence of a small-to-moderate reduction in depressive symptoms but with no convincing evidence of reduction in the incidence of depressive disorder in meta-analyses.3,4
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research