Project Summary

Jami Finkelson Young, Ph.D. (Young Investigator 2003) of New York State Psychiatric Institute, is implementing and studying a version of Interpersonal Therapy for Adolescents (IPT-AST), as a group preventive intervention in the school-based health clinics in the New York City Public schools.  This treatment will be given to 6th grade adolescents with increased depressive symptoms, and the clinical outcome will be evaluated and compared with adolescents who receive treatment as usual in the school-based clinics.  It is expected that IPT-AST will result in decreased risk for depression as compared to treatment as usual, and that these effects will persist up to 1 year following completion of the intervention

Program Area: MOOD DISORDERS\Depression (Unipolar)\Child/Adolescent

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