CBT for Children with Depressive Symptoms: A Meta-Analysis

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 275-288

  Arnberg, Alexandra ^a   Öst, Lars Göran ^a,b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

cognitive behavioral therapy; depression; psychotherapy; review; youth

Indexed keywords

CHILD; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; META ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC);

CHILD; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84911001620     PISSN: 16506073     EISSN: 16512316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16506073.2014.947316     Document Type: Review

References (60)

1. Abela, J.R.Z., & Hankin, B.L. (2008). Handbook of depression in children and adolescents. New York, NY: Guilford Press.
2. Angold, A., & Costello, E.J. (2001). The epidemiology of depression in children and adolescents. In I.M.Goodyer (Ed.), The depressed child and adolescent (2nd ed., pp. 143–178). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
3. Angold, A., Costello, E.J., Messer, S.C., & Pickles, A. (1995). Development of a short questionnaire for use in epidemiological studies of depression in children and adolescents. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 5, 237–249.
4. Asarnow, J.R., Scott, C.V., & Mintz, J. (2002). A combined cognitive-behavioral family education intervention for depression in children: A treatment development study. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 26, 221–229. 10.1023/A:1014573803928.
5. Barrett, P.M., Farrell, L.J., Ollendick, T.H., & Dadds, M. (2006). Long-term outcomes of an Australian universal prevention trial of anxiety and depression symptoms in children and youth: An evaluation of the friends program. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 35, 403–411. 10.1207/s15374424jccp3503_5.
6. Begg, C.B., & Mazumdar, M. (1994). Operating characteristics of a rank correlation test for publication bias. Biometrics, 50, 1088–1101.
7. Birmaher, B., Ryan, N.D., Williamson, D.E., Brent, D.A., Kaufman, J., Dahl, R.E., …Nelson, B. (1996). Childhood and adolescent depression: A review of the past 10 years, Part I. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 35, 1427–1439. 10.1097/00004583-199611000-00011.
8. Borenstein, M. (2009). Introduction to meta-analysis. Chichester: Wiley.
9. Brooks, S.J., & Kutcher, S. (2001). Diagnosis and measurement of adolescent depression: A review of commonly utilized instruments. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 11, 341–376. 10.1089/104454601317261546.
10. Butler, L., Mietzitis, S., Friedman, R., & Cole, E. (1980). The effect of two school-based intervention programs on depressive symptoms in preadolescents. American Educational Research Journal, 17, 111–119. 10.2307/1162512.
11. Chambless, D.L., & Ollendick, T.H. (2001). Empirically supported psychological interventions: Controversies and evidence. Annual Review of Psychology, 52, 685–716. 10.1146/annurev.psych.52.1.685.
12. Chinn, S. (2000). A simple method for converting an odds ratio to effect size for use in meta-analysis. Statistics in Medicine, 19, 3127–3131. doi:10.1002/1097-0258(20001130)19:22 < 3127:AID-SIM784>3.0.CO;2-M.
13. Compton, S.N., March, J.S., Brent, D., Albano, A.M., Weersing, V., & Curry, J. (2004). Cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy for anxiety and depressive disorders in children and adolescents: An evidence-based medicine review. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 43, 930–959. 10.1097/01.chi.0000127589.57468.bf.
14. Costello, E., Erkanli, A., & Angold, A. (2006). Is there an epidemic of child or adolescent depression?Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 47, 1263–1271.
15. Costello, E., Pine, D.S., Hammen, C., March, J.S., Plotsky, P.M., Weissman, M.M., …Leckman, J.F. (2002). Development and natural history of mood disorders. Biological Psychiatry, 52, 529–542. 10.1016/S0006-3223%2802%2901372-0.
16. Cummings, C.M., Caporino, N.E., & Kendall, P.C. (2014). Comorbidity of anxiety and depression in children and adolescents: 20 years after. Psychological Bulletin, 140, 816–845. 10.1037/a0034733.
17. David-Ferdon, C., & Kaslow, N.J. (2008). Evidence-based psychosocial treatments for child and adolescent depression. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 37, 62–104. 10.1080/15374410701817865.
18. de Cuyper, S., Timbremont, B., Braet, C., De Backer, V., & Wullaert, T. (2004). Treating depressive symptoms in schoolchildren: A pilot study. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 13, 105–114. 10.1007/s00787-004-0366-2.
19. Dougherty, L.R., Klein, D.N., Olino, T.M., & Laptook, R.S. (2008). Depression in children and adolescents. In J.Hunsely & E. J.Mash (Eds.), A guide to assessments that work (pp. 69–95). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
20. DuBois, D.L., Felner, R.D., Bartels, C.L., & Silverman, M.M. (1995). Stability of self-reported depressive symptoms in a community sample of children and adolescents. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 24, 386–396. 10.1207/s15374424jccp2404_3.
21. Durlak, J.A., Weissberg, R.P., Dymnicki, A.B., Taylor, R.D., & Schellinger, K.B. (2011). The impact of enhancing students' social and emotional learning: A meta-analysis of school-based universal interventions. Child Development, 82, 405–432. 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01564.x.
22. Duval, S., & Tweedie, R. (2000). Trim and fill: A simple funnel-plot-based method of testing and adjusting for publication bias in meta-analysis. Biometrics, 56, 455–463.
23. Easterbrook, P.J., Berlin, J.A., Gopalan, R., & Matthews, D.R. (1991). Publication bias in clinical research. Lancet, 337, 867–872.
24. Erford, B.T., Erford, B.M., Lattanzi, G., Weller, J., Schein, H., Wolf, E., …Peacock, E. (2011). Counseling outcomes from 1990 to 2008 for school-age youth with depression: A meta-analysis. Journal of Counseling & Development, 89, 439–457. 10.1002/j.1556-6676.2011.tb02841.x.
25. Fonagy, P., Target, M., Cottrell, D., Phillips, J., & Kurtz, Z. (2005). What works for whom? A critical review of treatments for children and adolescents. London: Guilford Press.
26. Fristad, M.A., Verducci, J.S., Walters, K., & Young, M.E. (2009). Impact of multifamily psychoeducational psychotherapy in treating children aged 8 to 12 years with mood disorders. Archives of General Psychiatry, 66, 1013–1020. 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2009.112.
27. Gillham, J.E., Reivich, K.J., Jaycox, L.H., & Seligman, M.E. (1995). Prevention of depressive symptoms in schoolchildren: Two-year follow-up. Psychological Science, 6, 343–351. 10.1111/j.1467-9280.1995.tb00524.x.
28. Harter, S. (1990). Adolescent self and identity development. In S.Feldman & G.Eliot (Eds.), At the threshold: The developing adolescent (pp. 352–387). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
29. Jaycox, L.H., Reivich, K.J., Gillham, J., & Seligman, M.E. (1994). Prevention of depressive symptoms in school children. Behaviour Research & Therapy, 32, 801–816.
30. Jonsson, U., Bohman, H., von Knorring, L., Olsson, G., Paaren, A., & von Knorring, A. (2011). Mental health outcome of long-term and episodic adolescent depression: 15-year follow-up of a community sample. Journal of Affective Disorders, 130, 395–404. 10.1016/j.jad.2010.10.046.
31. Kahn, J., & Kehle, T. (1990). Comparison of cognitive-behavioral, relaxation, and self-modeling interventions for depression. School Psychology Review, 19, 196–211.
32. Kaslow, N.J., & Thompson, M.P. (1998). Applying the criteria for empirically supported treatments to studies of psychosocial interventions for child and adolescent depression. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 27, 146–155. 10.1207/s15374424jccp2702_2.
33. King, N.J., Ollendick, T.H., & Gullone, E. (1991). Negative affectivity in children and adolescents: Relations between anxiety and depression. Clinical Psychology Review, 11, 441–459. 10.1016/0272-7358%2891%2990117-D.
34. Klein, J.B., Jacobs, R.H., & Reinecke, M.A. (2007). Cognitive-behavioral therapy for adolescent depression: A meta-analytic investigation of changes in effect-size estimates. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 46, 1403–1413. 10.1097/chi.0b013e3180592aaa.
35. Klein, D.N., Lewinsohn, P.M., & Seeley, J.R. (1997). Psychosocial characteristics of adolescents with a past history of dysthymic disorder: Comparison with adolescents with past histories of major depressive and non-affective disorders, and never mentally ill controls. Journal of Affective Disorders, 42, 127–135. 10.1016/S0165-0327%2896%2901403-6.
36. Kovacs, M. (1992). The Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) manual. Toronto: Multi-Health Systems.
37. Kovacs, M., & Lopez-Duran, N.L. (2012). Contextual emotion regulation therapy: A developmentally based intervention for pediatric depression. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 21, 327–343. 10.1016/j.chc.2012.01.002.
38. Lewinsohn, P.M., & Clarke, G.N. (1999). Psychosocial treatments for adolescent depression. Clinical Psychology Review, 19, 329–342. 10.1016/S0272-7358%2898%2900055-5.
39. Liddle, B., & Spence, S.H. (1990). Cognitive-behaviour therapy with depressed primary school children: A cautionary note. Behavioural Psychotherapy, 18, 85–102. 10.1017/S0141347300018218.
40. Luby, J., Lenze, S., & Tillman, R. (2012). A novel early intervention for preschool depression: Findings from a pilot randomized controlled trial. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 53, 313–322. 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2011.02483.x.
41. McAuley, L., Pham, B., Tugwell, P., & Moher, D. (2000). Does the inclusion of grey literature influence estimates of intervention effectiveness reported in meta-analyses?Lancet, 356, 1228–1231.
42. Michael, K.D., & Crowley, S.L. (2002). How effective are treatments for child and adolescent depression? A meta-analytic review. Clinical Psychology Review, 22, 247–269. 10.1016/S0272-7358%2801%2900089-7.
43. Moher, D., Pham, B., Jones, A., Cook, D.J., Jadad, A.R., Moher, M., …Klassen, T.P. (1998). Does quality of reports of randomised trials affect estimates of intervention efficacy reported in meta-analyses?Lancet, 352, 609–613. 10.1016/S0140-6736(98)01085-X.
44. Nelson, E.-L., Barnard, M., & Cain, S. (2003). Treating childhood depression over videoconferencing. Telemedicine Journal and E-Health, 9, 49–55.
45. Orwin, R.G. (1983). A fail-safe N for effect size in meta-analysis. Journal of Educational Statistics, 8, 157–159. 10.2307/1164923.
46. Öst, L.-G. (2008). Efficacy of the third wave of behavioral therapies: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 46, 296–321. 10.1016/j.brat.2007.12.005.
47. Öst, L.-G. (Ed.). (2010). KBT inom barn- och ungdomspsykiatrin [CBT in child and adolescent psychiatry]. Stockholm: Natur & Kultur.
48. Poznanski, E.O., Grossman, J.A., Buchsbaum, Y., Banegas, M., Freeman, L., & Gibbons, R. (1984). Preliminary studies of the reliability and validity of the children's depression rating scale. Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 23, 191–197. 10.1097/00004583-198403000-00011.
49. Rosenthal, R. (1991). Meta-analysis: A review. Psychosomatic Medicine, 53, 247–271.
50. Rowlison, R.T., & Felner, R.D. (1988). Major life events, hassles, and adaptation in adolescence: Confounding in the conceptualization and measurement of life stress and adjustment revisited. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 55, 432–444. 10.1037/0022-3514.55.3.432.
51. Spielmans, G.I., Pasek, L.F., & McFall, J.P. (2007). What are the active ingredients in cognitive and behavioral psychotherapy for anxious and depressed children? A meta-analytic review. Clinical Psychology Review, 27, 642–654. 10.1016/j.cpr.2006.06.001.
52. Stark, K.D., Reynolds, W.M., & Kaslow, N.J. (1987). A comparison of the relative efficacy of self-control therapy and a behavioral problem-solving therapy for depression in children. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 15, 91–113. 10.1007/BF00916468.
53. SBU (Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care) (2004). Behandling av depressionssjukdomar. (Report no. 166/3). Stockholm: Author. Retrieved from http://www.sbu.se/en/Published/Yellow/Treatment-of-depression.
54. Vostanis, P., Feehan, C., Grattan, E., & Bickerton, W.-L. (1996). A randomised controlled out-patient trial of cognitive-behavioural treatment for children and adolescents with depression: 9-month follow-up. Journal of Affective Disorders, 40, 105–116. 10.1016/0165-0327%2896%2900054-7.
55. Watanabe, N., Hunot, V., Omori, I., Churchill, R., & Furukawa, T. (2007). Psychotherapy for depression among children and adolescents: A systematic review. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 116, 84–95. 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2007.01018.x.
56. Weissman, M.M., Warner, V., Wickramaratne, P., Moreau, D., & Olfson, M. (1997). Offspring of depressed parents: 10 years later. Archives of General Psychiatry, 54, 932–940. 10.1001/archpsyc.1997.01830220054009.
57. Weissman, M.M., Wolk, S., Goldstein, R.B., Moreau, D., Adams, P., Greenwald, S., …Wickramaratne, P. (1999). Depressed adolescents grown up. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 281, 1707–1713. 10.1001/jama.281.18.1707.
58. Weisz, J.R., McCarty, C.A., & Valeri, S.M. (2006). Effects of psychotherapy for depression in children and adolescents: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 132, 132–149. 10.1037/0033-2909.132.1.132.
59. Weisz, J.R., Thurber, C.A., Sweeney, L., Proffitt, V.D., & LeGagnoux, G.L. (1997). Brief treatment of mild-to-moderate child depression using primary and secondary control enhancement training. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 65, 703–707. 10.1037/0022-006X.65.4.703.
60. Whittington, C.J., Kendall, T., & Pilling, S. (2005). Are the SSRIs and atypical antidepressants safe and effective for children and adolescents?Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 18, 21–25.