Bending Adolescent Depression Trajectories Through Personalized Prevention

A group prevention program that includes a 60-minute pre-group session, 8 weekly 90-minute group sessions, a 60-minute mid-group session, and 3 60-minute booster sessions. IPT-AST focuses on psychoeducation and interpersonal skill-building to decrease interpersonal conflict and increase interpersonal support and competence.

A group prevention program that consists of 8 acute 90-minute group sessions, 2 parent group sessions, and 3 continuation sessions lasting 60 minutes each. Participants are taught to apply cognitive techniques to their personal thoughts, with the goal of generating effective counterarguments to unrealistic negative beliefs.