Effectiveness of attachment-based family therapy compared to treatment as usual for depressed adolescents in community mental health clinics.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a disabling mood disorder, profoundly affecting a large number of adolescent's quality of life. To date, no obvious treatment of choice for MDD in adolescents is available and progress in the treatment of depressed adolescents will have important public health implications. Attachment-Based Family Therapy (ABFT), as the only empirically supported family therapy model designed to treat adolescent depression, aims to repair interpersonal ruptures and rebuild an emotionally protective parent-child relationship.

Objective

To study the effectiveness of ABFT compared with treatment as usual (TAU) delivered within child- and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) to adolescents with MDD.

Method

Sixty adolescents (86.7% girls),

SUBMITTER: Waraan L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7881666 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature