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Half the teenagers were randomly assigned to a prevention program that consisted of eight weekly group sessions of cognitive behavioral instruction (CB) lasting 90 minutes each, plus six follow-up sessions that met once a month. The other half of the volunteers were assigned to a control group that got "usual care," meaning they were free to seek help from whatever resources were available to them in their community - as were the teens in the experimental group. There were no differences between the groups in terms of the types of services they chose on their own. (Read "Talk Therapy...
...teenagers were followed for nine months. Less than a quarter (21.4%) of those in the CB program went on to have an episode of depression, compared with about a third (32.7%) of those in the control group. The results were far more dramatic for teens whose parents were not actively suffering from depression: only 11.7% who went through the program had an episode of depression during the nine-month follow...
Working in small groups of three to 10 works well for adolescents, says psychologist Gregory Clarke, who pioneered the program and is a co-author of the study. "The group can be almost a Greek chorus to bounce ideas off of, " explains Clarke, who is a senior investigator at Kaiser Permanente's Center for Health Research in Portland...
...While we are all intimately familiar with the overcrowded nature of many or most of the Houses, the value of having a transfer program outweighs the very small number of extra beds gained by not having one, a number that does not actually ease overcrowding to any considerable degree. Moreover, there are some extra beds here and there in the Houses; I lived this year with four other people in what is typically a six-person suite. I would have happily sacrificed having two common rooms for the continuation of the transfer program. Certainly I recognize that my living situation...
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