The most
promising psychological interventions for depression in children are individual rather than family therapies.
Not exact matches
HFS is a
promising community - based
intervention for military spouses designed to enhance resiliency, reduce negative
psychological health symptoms, and improve coping.
Indeed,
psychological interventions have been proven to be effective in a broad range of disorders and illnesses.15 — 18 Although a few former works have focused on
psychological interventions in haemophilia, showing positive and
promising results, 19 — 25 the lack of recent papers exploring this issue is somewhat surprising, despite the recommendations and guidelines that emphasise their relevance.
Parenting programmes are recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as evidence - based
interventions for several child
psychological problems including for parents of children with ASD8 and children with intellectual disability.9 Group - based parent programmes can be effective in reducing behavioural problems in children with ASD, 10 improving dysfunctional parenting styles, 10 increasing parents» ability to facilitate their children's development of communication skills11, 12 and increasing children's vocabulary.11 Group parent programmes also have the added benefit of providing social support for the parents.13 This is especially important given that parents of children with ASD are more likely to experience depression and stress, particularly parents of young children and of children with high levels of behavioural problems.4 — 6 Therefore, group
interventions show
promise as a valuable resource to help parents.
Longer early
psychological interventions have shown some
promise.
Rapee et al. (2009) found small but significant effects for a universal anxiety prevention program, with stronger effects for children versus adolescents; while Neil and Christensen's (2009) review indicated efficacy for both universal and targeted school - based anxiety prevention programs; however, indicated
interventions, i.e., programs that are delivered to groups or individuals who exhibit early symptoms of
psychological disorders, have shown more
promise (Feldner et al., 2004).