title: Pilot study of continuation cognitive-behavioral therapy for major depression in adolescent psychiatric patients.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine whether continuation of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT-C) could prevent relapse in adolescent psychiatric patients who had remitted from major depressive disorder (MDD).
  
  
  METHODS
  Seventeen patients who continued to have CBT-C for 6 months after remission from MDD were compared with a historical control group of 12 cases who had no further treatment after remission.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Only 1 of the 17 cases who continued with CBT-C dropped out. The cumulative relapse risk during CBT-C was significantly lower (0.2) than it had been in the historical control group (0.5).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  CBT-C warrants further investigation in a randomized, controlled trial.
authors.affiliation: University of Manchester Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Pendlebury, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kroll
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Harrington
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jayson
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fraser
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gowers
mesh_terms: D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012008:Recurrence