Outcome of psychotherapy among early adolescents after trauma.

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Subject: Evaluates the effectiveness of brief trauma/grief-focused psychotherapy among 64 early adolescents exposed to the 1988 earthquake in Armenia. Posttraumatic stress and depressive reactions among treated and not treated subjects were evaluated pre- and postintervention, at 1.5 and 3 years after the earthquake respectively. Severity of posttraumatic stress symptoms significantly decreased among the subjects given psychotherapy, while severity of these symptoms increased significantly among the subjects not treated with psychotherapy. The improvement in posttraumatic stress symptoms was attributable to improvement in all 3 symptom categories (intrusion, avoidance, and arousal) of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). There was no change in severity of depressive symptoms among subjects given psychotherapy. However, depressive symptoms among subjects not treated with psychotherapy significantly worsened over time. The changes in severity of posttraumatic stress and depressive symptoms were positively correlated within both groups

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Reprinted from American Journal of Psychiatry; 1997; v 154, no. 4; p. 536-542

Evaluates the effectiveness of brief trauma/grief-focused psychotherapy among 64 early adolescents exposed to the 1988 earthquake in Armenia. Posttraumatic stress and depressive reactions among treated and not treated subjects were evaluated pre- and postintervention, at 1.5 and 3 years after the earthquake respectively. Severity of posttraumatic stress symptoms significantly decreased among the subjects given psychotherapy, while severity of these symptoms increased significantly among the subjects not treated with psychotherapy. The improvement in posttraumatic stress symptoms was attributable to improvement in all 3 symptom categories (intrusion, avoidance, and arousal) of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). There was no change in severity of depressive symptoms among subjects given psychotherapy. However, depressive symptoms among subjects not treated with psychotherapy significantly worsened over time. The changes in severity of posttraumatic stress and depressive symptoms were positively correlated within both groups

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