NCT00564239

Psychological Prevention of Internalizing Disorders

Efficacy of Child-centered Cognitive-Behavioral Prevention of Internalizing Disorders and the Impact of Simultaneous Parent Training

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 77 (actual)
• Sponsor: Philipps University Marburg · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether cognitive-behavioral group prevention (CBT-G) for german children is effective and to what extent parental group training moderates outcome.

Detailed description

Internalizing disorders represent a large group of psychological disorders among children who are referred to psychological treatment. Anxiety, Depression and somatoform disorders in children and adolescents increase the risk of mental disorders in adulthood. Some english programs have proved the efficacy of CBT-G prevention.This study will test the efficacy of CBT-G in German children. The role of parental involvement is currently subject to scientific discussions. The impact of an additional parent-group training will be investigated.

Conditions

• Anxiety Symptoms
• Depressive Symptoms
• Somatoform Symptoms

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy	12 children group sessions, 8 parent group sessions
BEHAVIORAL	Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy	12 children group sessions

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-11-01
• Primary completion: 2009-05-01
• Completion: 2009-05-01
• First posted: 2007-11-27
• Last updated: 2018-04-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany