The effectiveness, acceptability and cost - effectiveness
of psychosocial interventions for maltreated children and adolescents: an evidence synthesis.
The adolescents expressed that they experienced benefits
of the psychosocial interventions of the TC.
For aggressive children, a highly positive self - view is construed — not as a protective factor or measurement error — but as a defensive posture that places the child at added risk and that impedes the progress
of psychosocial interventions.
A systematic review
of psychosocial interventions for family carers of palliative care patients
As they continue to develop in preschool, their use of regulation strategies becomes more sophisticated.21, 22 Thus, the use
of psychosocial interventions in this age range appears promising.
Studies
of psychosocial interventions for bipolar disorder clearly indicate they have a role in adjunctive treatment of the illness.
Applying the criteria for empirically supported treatments to studies
of psychosocial interventions for child and adolescent depression.
Barsevick et al include in their review a heterogeneous mix
of psychosocial interventions, and they pool together research studies of people with different types of cancers.
What evidence is available about the long - term efficacy and safety
of psychosocial interventions (behavioral modification) for the treatment of ADHD for children, and specifically, what information is available about the efficacy and safety of these interventions in preschool - aged and adolescent patients?
Depression in young people is a problem with such pervasive features that one can find abnormalities in almost any domain (eg, cognitive, family) to justify any treatment.1 A great variety
of psychosocial interventions have therefore been used with depressed children, including CBT, psychotherapy, and family therapy.
Caregiver - focused groups were rated as providing skills such as information and support that reduced the negative appraisal of caregiving, decreased uncertainty and lessened hopelessness, while also teaching skills to cope with the stresses of caregiving.66 This supports suggestions that such groups might give caregivers the chance to openly interact with other caregivers in the absence of their care recipients.57 Moreover, in a systematic review
of psychosocial interventions, group based or otherwise, caregivers listed the most useful aspect of interventions as regular interactions with a professional, providing the chance to openly communicate issues with them, and as a time to talk about feelings and questions related to cancer.13, 66
A systematic review
of psychosocial interventions to improve cancer caregiver quality of life
We identified 15 examples
of psychosocial interventions published in peer - reviewed journals that were adequately evaluated for their effects on psychologic or social outcomes among children with chronic health conditions or their family members.
To evaluate the effectiveness
of psychosocial interventions for children with chronic health conditions.
A review
of psychosocial interventions for children with chronic health conditions.
Introduction Despite the rising trend of cancer prevalence and increase in family caregiving, little attention has been paid to the efficacy
of psychosocial interventions among Asian caregiver samples, particularly support groups, given the benefits that have been shown in studies on Western populations.
With health care dollars at a premium, strong and convincing evidence will be needed to justify the costs
of psychosocial interventions for children with chronic illnesses and disabilities.
In relapse prevention pharmacotherapies for the treatment of addiction problems, the effects on outcome are modest compared with other influences (such as patient characteristics, active follow - up and social stability) 1 and complicated by the effects
of psychosocial interventions that are always recommended alongside any prescribing.2
The paper identifies some small studies of new drugs, but typically these lacked adequate data for analysis; moreover, only 8 of 123 studies were rated as low risk of bias, and the mix
of psychosocial interventions added to uncertainties of effectiveness.
I'm a great proponent
of psychosocial interventions,» such as counseling, family psychoeducation, and community support, «but none of them works very fast.
Nine of these studies showed significant benefits
of psychosocial interventions in patients being treated with methadone, including reduced drug use and increased treatment attendance.
For buprenorphine, the results were «less robust» — only three of eight studies found positive effects
of psychosocial interventions.
«However,» Dr. Dugosh and coauthors add, «there is limited research addressing the efficacy
of psychosocial interventions used in conjunction with medications to treat opioid addiction.»
«Given the current state of the opioid overdose epidemic, it is critical that patients seeking help for opioid addiction have access to comprehensive treatment that includes highly effective medications whose effects may be enhanced with the provision
of psychosocial interventions,» according to the report by Karen Dugosh, PhD, of Treatment Research Institute, Philadelphia, and colleagues
Dr. Dugosh and colleagues make recommendations for research on the role
of psychosocial interventions as a part of «comprehensive, recovery - oriented treatment» for opioid use disorders.
Several prior reviews
of psychosocial intervention (e.g., Cohan, Chavira, & Stein, 2006) are also informative.
Mediators and moderators
of a psychosocial intervention for children affected by political violence.
Firstly, eligible studies were selected partly on the basis that they reported a planned evaluation
of a psychosocial intervention.
The greater ratio of women to men is consistent with other studies30, 33
of psychosocial intervention in bipolar disorder that required family participation.
This article is highly significant in that it is the only randomised controlled trial (RCT)
of a psychosocial intervention for adolescents that has been conducted with African adolescents who reside in an impoverished, developing country devastated by war.
Future research will refine what type
of psychosocial intervention is most beneficial for particular patients at particular stages of their illness, and determine ways to address cognitive deficits and comorbid disorders.
The effectiveness
of psychosocial intervention for preventing progression to a first episode of schizophrenia: a systematic review of quantitative evidence.
Cost - Effectiveness and cost - utility
of Psychosocial Intervention in Patients with Schizophrenia: a systematic review of quantitative evidence.
Not exact matches
• A brief, inexpensive US prenatal
intervention (consisting
of one prenatal session with parents in separate gender groups focusing on
psychosocial issues
of first - time parenthood) was associated with mothers» reporting greater satisfaction with the sharing
of home and baby tasks post partum (Matthey et al, 2004).
Athletic Trainers work closely with physicians and other health professionals and are responsible for being current in several areas, including: an evidence based practice (EBP), prevention and health promotion (PHP), clinical examination and diagnosis (CE), acute care
of injuries and illnesses (AC), therapeutic
interventions (TI),
psychosocial strategies and referral (PS), healthcare administration (HA), and professional development and responsibility (PD).
for training, practice and reference, December 2007 IBFAN Training Courses on the Code ICAP, 2010 Improving Retention, Adherence, and
Psychosocial Support within PMTCT Services: Implementation Workshop for Health Workers IYCN Project, The roles
of grandmothers and men: evidence supporting a familyfocused approach to optimal infant and young child nutrition IYCN Project Mother - to - Mother Support Groups Trainer's Manual - Facilitator's Manual with Discussion Guide IYCN Project, 2010, Infant Feeding and HIV: Trainer's guide and participant's manual for training community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project 2010, Infant Feeding and HIV: Participant's manual for community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project, Infant and Young Child Feeding and Gender: A Training Manual for Male Group Leaders and Participant Manual for Male Group Leaders IYCN Project 2012, Helping an HIV - positive breastfeeding mother decide how to feed her child at 12 months: A checklist for health care providers IYCN Project 2012, Community
interventions to promote optimal breastfeeding; evidence on early initiation, any breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding and continued breastfeeding; literature review, January 2012 UNICEF 2011, Community IYCF Counselling Package - The technical content
of this package reflects the Guidelines on HIV and Infant Feeding 2010: Principles and Recommendations for Infant Feeding in the Context
of HIV and a Summary
of Evidence related to IYCF in the context
of HIV.
Thus, although improving the economic status
of families promotes more positive outcomes for children's cognitive development and academic achievement, direct services and therapeutic
interventions may be a comparatively more promising alternative for improving children's
psychosocial development and reducing behaviour problems.
In support
of this model, multiple studies have shown the association between infant negative reactivity and later
psychosocial outcomes such as problem behaviour and self - regulation to be moderated by parental behaviour, so that highly reactive children fare better than others when they experience optimal parenting but worse than others when they experience negative parenting.41 - 46 Further support is found in studies indicating that
interventions targeting parental attitudes and / or behaviours are particularly effective for children with a history
of negative reactive temperament.47, 49
Practitioner Review:
Psychosocial interventions for children with selective mutism: a critical evaluation
of the literature from 1990 — 2005.
They write, «The results generally support the efficacy
of providing
psychosocial interventions in combination with medications to treat opioid addiction.»
Psychosocial interventions, used together with effective medications, are a key part
of recommended treatment for opioid addiction.
Because
of this, there is interest in
psychosocial interventions for RA such as cognitive - behavioral and emotional processing approaches.
«If so, our findings highlight a point
of entry, where future
interventions can focus their attention to help reduce the effects
of maternal depression on children's
psychosocial development.»
Additional limitations to the traditional approach include: costly failures to replicate positive results in larger trials; difficulty in determining the reasons for negative results; low yield in terms
of identifying disease or
intervention mechanisms due to an exclusive focus on symptom change and clinical endpoints; and, the expensive and very lengthy practice
of first establishing multi-component
psychosocial treatments followed by years
of «unpacking» studies.
Using a collaborative team approach, we aim to maximize the effectiveness
of psychotherapy, medication management and
psychosocial treatments already offered at McLean with emerging techniques, technologies and
interventions.
Understanding that early
intervention and prevention efforts require evidence - based approaches to individual care, NIMH supports research that evaluates the effectiveness
of psychosocial and other
interventions for mental illnesses.
This summary is from «MEMO +: efficacy, durability and impact
of cognitive training and
psychosocial intervention in MCI.»
Dr. Carothers» training and expertise spans a wide variety
of evidence - based treatments, including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), the Incredible Years parent & child
psychosocial intervention, and trauma - focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF - CBT).
All
of the NGOs interviewed noted that livelihoods
interventions improve the
psychosocial health
of refugees by giving them productive activities to engage in.
A review
of 16 empirical studies, from 1982 to 2008, found that sitting meditation, including mindfulness and Transcendental Meditation practices seems to be an effective
intervention in the treatment
of physiologic,
psychosocial, and behavioral conditions among youths ages 6 - 18.