title: Engaging depressed African American adolescents in treatment: lessons from the AAKOMA PROJECT.
abstract: The authors describe and illustrate means of engaging depressed African American adolescents in treatment. Twenty-eight youth participated in focus groups or individual interviews. Using grounded theory and transcript based analysis, they derived 5 themes describing African American adolescents' experience of depression and suggested mechanisms for improving African American youth treatment engagement. Practitioners can educate African American youth about depression as a medical disorder, build trust, and apply innovative approaches to recognizing differential manifestations of depression in African American youth.
authors.affiliation: Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA. brela001@mc.duke.edu
authors.forename: Alfiee M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Breland-Noble
authors.forename: Antoinette
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Burriss
authors.forename: H Kathy
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Poole
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D005639:Frustration; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations / Q000208:ethnology; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000379:methods; D035502:Trust / Q000523:psychology