This research study aims to develop a brief group-based treatment called Resilience Training for Teens, then to test how well it protects high school students with mild symptoms of depression, anxiety, or having unusual feelings from developing mental illnesses.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
70
A brief 6-session group-based behavioral intervention for high school aged teenagers at risk of a mental illness.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
RECRUITINGStructured Interview of Psychosis-risk Syndromes (SIPS)
Subclinical psychotic symptoms that represent a risk of transdiagnostic mental illnesses. This semi-structured interview rates psychotic experiences, general symptoms, and functioning. The SIPS interview assesses positive, negative, disorganized, and general symptoms. The range of the Scale of Psychosis-risk Symptoms (SOPS) is 0-6, with a higher score representing more severe symptoms.
Time frame: 1 year
Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)
Mental health symptoms in the teen rated by both the teen and the parent/guardian consisting of 113 items. The CBCL rates multiple domains across functioning and psychiatric diagnoses. It is scored on a 3-point Likert scale, with higher scores representing more severe symptoms.
Time frame: 1 year
Global Functioning Social and Role Scales
Social and school/work functioning captured on this scale rated on a 10 point likert scale assessing functional and social functioning separately. Higher ratings represent richer functioning.
Time frame: 1 year
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