INTERVENTIONS FOR KIDS

Question 1

The Parent-therapist Alliance is positively correlated with ______ and _______ in treatment

Answer 1

appointments being kept and parental involvement

Question 2

What does the youth-therapist alliance predict

Answer 2

the patients subjective reports of progress

Question 3

What do you do if a youth refuses treatment

Answer 3

you won’t be able to provide direct service, but you can still provide parents with guidance

if CBT related you switch from cognitive to behaviour aspects

Question 4

Kids don’t have a say in dropping out of therapy, but what other 3 things can you focus on?

Answer 4

Parental Psychopathology (are the parents mentally stable)
Parental Isolation (do they have support from other family members, financial isolation, etc)
Family conflict

Question 5

True or False: Major Depressive Disorder is as common in adolescence as it is in childhood

Answer 5

TRUE

Question 6

Major depressive disorder rates increases in adolescence, with a ____ fold increase from __ to__ and __ to __ year olds

Answer 6

Two fold increase
13-14 and 17-18

Question 7

What is a problem with meta analyses based on evidence based interventions for childhood disorders, and what is a solution?

Answer 7

Problem: they are based on published studies, which are likely to include reports of successful outcomes

Solution: review doctoral dissertations (PhD dissertations)

Question 8

What does Treatment as usual (TAU) mean?

Answer 8

comparing evidence based treatments to normal operating procedures

Question 9

Evidence based treatment is not universally applied as it may reflect time constraints, what can improve this?

Answer 9

Treatment Manuals, and it should be incorporated into grad school. There can also be workshops