Preventing Adolescent Depression: An Evaluation of the Problem Solving for Life Program

This study evaluated the effectiveness of the Problem Solving For Life program as a universal approach to the prevention of adolescent depression. Short-term results indicated that participants with initially elevated depressions scores (high risk) who received the intervention showed a significantl...

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Published in:Journal of consulting and clinical psychology 2003-02, Vol.71 (1), p.3-13
Main Authors: Spence, Susan H, Sheffield, Jeanie K, Donovan, Caroline L
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescent Behavior - psychology
Adolescent Psychiatry
Adolescents
At Risk Populations
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child psychology
Depression
Depression - diagnosis
Depression - prevention & control
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Dysthymic Disorder - diagnosis
Dysthymic Disorder - prevention & control
Female
Human
Humans
Intervention
Major Depression
Male
Medical sciences
Mental depression
Mental health
Prevention
Prevention. Health policy. Planification
Problem Solving
Program Evaluation
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
School based
Social Behavior
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Treatment
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Summary:This study evaluated the effectiveness of the Problem Solving For Life program as a universal approach to the prevention of adolescent depression. Short-term results indicated that participants with initially elevated depressions scores (high risk) who received the intervention showed a significantly greater decrease in depressive symptoms and increase in life problem-solving scores from pre- to postintervention compared with a high-risk control group. Low-risk participants who received the intervention reported a small but significant decrease in depression scores over the intervention period, whereas the low-risk controls reported an increase in depression scores. The low-risk group reported a significantly greater increase in problem-solving scores over the intervention period compared with low-risk controls. These results were not maintained, however, at 12-month follow-up.
ISSN:0022-006X
1939-2117
DOI:10.1037/0022-006X.71.1.3