Engaging depressed African American adolescents in treatment: lessons from the AAKOMA PROJECT

Breland-Noble, Burriss, Poole, (2010) Engaging depressed African American adolescents in treatment: lessons from the AAKOMA PROJECT J Clin Psychol (IF: 2.5) 66(8) 868-79

Abstract

The authors describe and illustrate means of engaging depressed African American adolescents in treatment. Twenty-eight youth participated in focus groups or individual interviews. Using grounded theory and transcript based analysis, they derived 5 themes describing African American adolescents' experience of depression and suggested mechanisms for improving African American youth treatment engagement. Practitioners can educate African American youth about depression as a medical disorder, build trust, and apply innovative approaches to recognizing differential manifestations of depression in African American youth.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3838866
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20564682
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jclp.20708

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