An Open Trial Investigation of a Transdiagnostic Group Treatment for Children With Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms
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The current study investigates the feasibility and preliminary outcomes associated with a transdiagnostic emotion-focused group protocol for the treatment of anxiety disorders and depressive symptoms in youth. Twenty-two children (ages 7 to 12; M=9.79) with a principal anxiety disorder and varying levels of comorbid depressive symptoms were enrolled in an open trial of the Emotion Detectives Treatment Protocol (EDTP; Ehrenreich-May & Bilek, 2009), an intervention adapted from existent unified protocols for the treatment of emotional disorders among adults and adolescents. Results indicate that participants experienced significant improvements in clinician-rated severity of principal anxiety disorder diagnoses (d=1.38), the sum of all anxiety and depressive disorder severity ratings (d=1.07), and child-reported anxiety (d=0.47) and parent-reported depressive symptoms (d=0.54) at the posttreatment assessment. EDTP had good retention rates and reports of high satisfaction. Thus, preliminary evidence suggests that EDTP is a feasible and potentially efficacious treatment of youth anxiety disorders and co-occurring depressive symptoms. Children experiencing a range of internalizing symptoms may benefit from this more generalized, emotion-focused treatment modality, as it offers flexibility to families and the mental health clinician, while maintaining a concurrent focus on the provision of cognitive-behavioral treatment skills vital to the amelioration of anxiety and depressive dis…
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The UP-A and UP-C have also been shown to be efficacious in open-trial and randomized-controlled studies.
“The UP-A and UP-C have also been shown to be efficacious in open-trial and randomized-controlled studies (Bilek and Ehrenreich-May, 2012, Ehrenreich-May et al., 2017, Kennedy et al., 2019).”
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- Authors
- Bilek, E. L., & Ehrenreich-May, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Miami (US)
- Corresponding author
- Bilek, Emily L.
- ORCID
- Bilek, Emily L.
- Venue
- Behavior Therapy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2012-12
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 887-897
- ISSN
- 0005-7894 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1983686808
- Cited by
- 108
- References
- 17
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- FWCI
- 9.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Behavior Therapy (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Keywords
- transdiagnostic treatment, group therapy, children, anxiety disorders, depressive symptoms, Unified Protocol, emotion-focused interventions, cognitive-behavioral skills training, comorbidities, treatment feasibility, treatment retention, treatment satisfaction
- MeSH terms
- Anxiety Disorders, Child, Depression, Female, Humans, Male, Psychotherapy, Group, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Treatment Outcome
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