Single-participant assessment of treatment mediators: Strategy description and examples from a behavioral activation intervention for depressed adolescents

Behavior Modification

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 372-402

  Gaynor, Scott T ^a   Harris, Amanda ^a  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent depression; Behavioral activation; Mediators

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS; THINKING;

ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; THINKING;

EID: 41549101042     PISSN: 01454455     EISSN: 15524167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0145445507309028     Document Type: Article

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