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Are Depressed Adolescents Routinely Offered CBT? A Brief Review of Current Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2007

Gill Ross  and
Chris Brannigan
Gill Ross*
Affiliation:
Conwy and Denbighshire NHS Trust, UK
Chris Brannigan
Affiliation:
University of Derby, UK
*
Reprint requests to Gill Ross, Nirvana, The Green, Higher Kinnerton, Chester CH4 9BZ, UK. E-mail: [email protected] An extended version is also available online in the table of contents for this issue: http://journals.cambridge.org/jid_BCP
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Abstract

An increasing body of research in support of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) for adolescent depression has emerged during the last two decades. However, it has been suggested that empirically supported treatments are seldom carried out in clinical practice. Although the reasons for this are likely to be diverse, it is argued that mental health services have an ethical responsibility to offer evidence-based interventions. Whether empirically supported interventions, such as CBT, are consistently offered to depressed adolescents attending Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) is currently unknown. A primary aim of this study was to survey the use of CBT for depression in a number of United Kingdom (UK) CAMHS settings. A postal questionnaire was sent to 117 members of the BABCP Children, Adolescents and Families Special Interest Branch, of which 44 completed questionnaires were returned. Descriptive statistics indicate that just over half of the organizations represented routinely offered CBT to depressed adolescents. CBT practice and the transportation of evidence-based research findings to CAMHS settings are discussed.

Keywords

CAMHSadolescent depressionevidence baseCBT
Type
Research Article
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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , January 2008 , pp. 113 - 117
Copyright
Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 2007

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