Adolescent Depression, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Depression in adolescents is a common mental disorder seen in the clinics. It can impair the psychosocial wellbeing of adolescents, influence their academic achievement and increase the family burden. It is also a major risk for various psychopathologies in adulthood. Psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy both had been proved effective in the treatment of adolescent depression. Cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) is the best provided psychotherapy for the treatment of it with a comparable effect with pharmacological treatment. And evidence based medicine had recommended the combining usage of the two treatments. Now there is an urgent need to establish a treatment manual for using in the treatment of adolescents depression in China.PurposeTo establish a treatment manual for the treatment of adolescent depression in China and prove its effect in the clinical use.Method1. With the help of foreign manual and consideration of characteristics of Chinese depression adolescents, a treatment manual for the treatment of adolescent depression in China is established.2. Clinical control test is formed to test the effect of manual.3. A cases analyze of the adolescent patients who received the CBT treatment.Result1. A multimodular and several stage treatment manual for the treatment of Chinese depressive adolescents is established with objectives as oriented.2. 66.7% of the adolescent depression patients who received the CBT treatment is recovered.3. Analyze of patients who receive CBT result three models of requirements.Conclusion1. The treatment manual in this research is fitted with the characteristics of the adolescent depression in China, and it is proved useful in the clinical work.2. In the CBT treatment of adolescent depression, the patients can be classified to three requirement models which should be treated with different focus.