Building youths' resilience within a psychiatric outpatient setting: results from a pilot clinical intervention project.
The relevance of resilience research for clinical practice has not yet been established. In this intervention pilot study, the aim was to explore how group work based on enhancing the participants' creativity, self-efficacy, active coping, and sense of continuity could be utilized within a clinical context for adolescents with stressful background experiences. 31 participants and 24 parents completed pre-, post-, and 1-yr. follow-up assessments of the youths' behavior difficulties, as well as depression, positive life attitude, coping, and prosocial behavior. Apart from a drop in self-rated prosocial behavior, no significant treatment effects were found. Implications for clinical practice and research are indicated.
Waaktaar
Trine
T
Nic Waals Institute, Regional Centre for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Region East and South, Oslo, Norway. trine.waaktaar@r-bup.no
Christie
Helen J
HJ
Borge
Anne Inger Helmen
AI
Torgersen
Svenn
S
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D003405:Creativity; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D009664:Norway; D010044:Outpatient Clinics, Hospital; D010553:Personality Development; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D012648:Self Care / Q000523:psychology; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012919:Social Behavior; D016896:Treatment Outcome