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  • Title: Group therapy for adolescent depressive disorder: a comparison of social skills and therapeutic support.
    Author: Fine S, Forth A, Gilbert M, Haley G.
    Journal: J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry; 1991 Jan; 30(1):79-85. PubMed ID: 2005068.
    Abstract:
    Two forms of short-term group therapy for depressed adolescents are compared. Adolescents were assigned to either a social skills training or therapeutic support group. Treatment outcome was based on self-report and semistructured clinical interviews for depression, measures of self-concept, and cognitive distortions. After treatment, adolescents in the therapeutic support groups showed significantly greater reductions in clinical depression and significant increases in self-concept compared with those in the social skills training group. These group differences were no longer evident at 9-month follow-up, as adolescents in the therapeutic support groups maintained their improvement, and adolescents in the social skills training groups caught up.
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