Thursday, January 29, 2015

There Are NO Proven Psychosocial Therapies That Reduce Self-Harming In Teens

madinamerica;
Another FAIL from the Collectivist, Junk Medical wing  of America's Political Collectivist Fraudsters.


There are no psychosocial treatments or psychotherapeutic methods that are proven to effectively reduce thoughts and behaviors of self-harm in youth, according to a review of the scientific literature by a team of Harvard University psychologists publishing in the Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology.
The researchers identified 29 studies published before June of 2013 that examined treatment interventions for suicidal or self-injurious thoughts and behaviors in children or adolescents. They then evaluated the studies using the evidence-based treatment evaluation criteria of the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. They found that not a single intervention met the Level 1 standard for "well-established treatments."
However, six types of treatment were found to be "probably efficacious" or "possibly efficacious" for reducing self-injurious thoughts and behaviors. "These treatments came from a variety of theoretical orientations," noted the researchers, "including cognitive-behavioral, family, interpersonal, and psychodynamic theories."
Since none of these methods were better than the others, the researchers speculated that the relative efficacy they did have was likely due to common elements among them. For example, most of the different therapeutic strategies involved skills training such as problem solving and emotional regulation, targeted interpersonal relationship dynamics, and included families in the therapy sessions. The strategies also tended to be relatively "intensive," in that they involved multiple meetings per week with therapists.
Glenn, Catherine R., Joseph C. Franklin, and Matthew K. Nock. “Evidence-Based Psychosocial Treatments for Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors in Youth.” Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology 44, no. 1 (January 2, 2015): 1–29. doi:10.1080/15374416.2014.945211. (Abstract)




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