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Reducing risk for anxiety and depression in adolescents: Effects of a single-session intervention teaching that personality can change

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Schleider, Jessica L., Weisz, John R.·2016·Behaviour Research and Therapy

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Efforts to reduce youth mental health problems have advanced greatly but have not lowered overall rates of youth mental illness. Thus, a need exists for disseminable, mechanism-targeted approaches to reducing risk of youth psychopathology. Accordingly, we conducted a randomized-controlled trial testing whether a single-session intervention teaching growth personality mindsets (the belief that personality is malleable) reduced known risk factors for anxiety and depression in adolescents experiencing or at risk for internalizing problems (N = 96, ages 12-15). Compared to a supportive-therapy control, a 30-min computer-guided mindset intervention strengthened adolescents' perceived control; this improvement was associated with increases in growth mindsets. Further, electrodermal activity recovery slopes showed that youths receiving the mindset intervention recovered from a lab-based social stressor over three times as fast as control group youths. Improvements in growth mindsets and perceived control were linked with faster stress recovery. Results suggest a disseminable strategy for reducing internalizing problem risk among adolescents.

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Authors
Schleider, J. L., & Weisz, J. R.
Affiliations
Harvard University (US)
Corresponding author
Schleider, Jessica L.
Venue
Behaviour Research and Therapy
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2016-12
Volume
87
Pages
170-181
ISSN
0005-7967 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2524633373
Cited by
152
References
104
Citations by year
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FWCI
11.77
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (F31MH108280)
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 › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
Keywords
growth mindset, adolescents, anxiety, depression, internalizing problems, perceived control, single-session intervention, electrodermal activity, stress recovery, youth mental health, risk mitigation
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Anxiety, Child, Depression, Female, Galvanic Skin Response, Humans, Male, Personality, Psychotherapy, Brief, Risk Factors, Stress, Psychological, Therapy, Computer-Assisted

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