You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Commentary
Mental health
Parent-delivered CBT may reduce intervention cost, but questions arise about effectiveness
  1. Gabriela M Hungerford,
  2. Lauren C Santucci,
  3. John R Weisz
  1. Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Gabriela M Hungerford, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138-2044, USA; ghungerford{at}fas.harvard.edu

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebmed-2017-110792

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    Commentary on: Creswell C, Violato M, Fairbanks H, et al. Clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness of brief guided parent-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy and solution-focused brief therapy for treatment of childhood anxiety disorders: a randomised controlled trial. Lancet Psychiatry 2017;4:529–539.

    Context

    Psychological treatment of anxiety-related problems in youth has a rich history, dating back to Sigmund Freud’s work.1 After decades of clinical literature and scores of treatment outcome studies, a growing consensus formed among experts that cognitive–behavioural methods were especially effective, particularly the behavioural component involving graded exposure to feared stimuli. Delivery of this treatment approach by professional therapists can involve substantial cost, so the effort by Creswell and colleagues to investigate the use of parents to deliver the treatment has practical significance, and the study’s comparison between brief guided parent-delivered cognitive–behavioural therapy (GPD-CBT) and solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) could add to the practical …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.