DOI:
10.13056/acamh.24330
In this Papers Podcast,
Dr. Maria Loades discusses her co-authored Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal paper
‘Technology Matters: Online, self-help single session interventions could expand current provision, improving early access to help for young people with depression symptoms, including minority groups‘ (
https://doi.org/10.1111/camh.12659).
There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.
Discussion points include:
- How do single session interventions work and what they entail.
- The drop-out rate among young people for repeat attendance interventions.
- The groups of young people that are more likely to drop-out of repeat attendance interventions.
- Why young people often disengage from the repeat attendance model of care.
- The advantages of single session interventions.
- Effectiveness of single session interventions on depression symptoms.
- Single session interventions as an expansion, rather than a replacement, of current provisions.
- Implications of findings for child and adolescent mental health professionals.
