Bolton P, Lee C, Haroz EE, Murray L, Dorsey S, Robinson C, et al. Where causality is deemed to be anything other than unrelated to trial participation, the DSMC will advise on further actions such as withdrawal of individual participants, modifications to the trial protocol, continuing without modifications, or suspending/terminating the trial. All screening and outcome assessments will be undertaken using standardized self-report measures that have been translated into Hindi. Developmental Test of Motor Coordination – 6th Edition. To explore the effectiveness of the intervention on caregiver-reported adolescent mental health symptoms, associated distress/functional impairment, and adolescent-reported prosocial behavior. Immediately following random allocation to this condition, a researcher (rather than a counsellor) will provide a set of POD booklets and explain their purpose and contents using a standardized script. Conduct, anxiety, and depressive disorders account for over 75% of the adolescent mental health burden globally. First, we obtained uncontrolled effect sizes (ES = Difference in means/pooled SD) for both co-primary outcomes from a group of 52 adolescents who received the problem-solving intervention during pilot work in the six secondary schools in New Delhi. Introduction: The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of problem solving skills training on parent-adolescent conflicts and Internet addiction among adolescents in Torbat Heydarieh high school in 1397. The process of aligning the global evidence base on youth psychotherapies with local evidence followed recommendations from an earlier research program (PREMIUM) on psychological intervention development in low-resource settings, which led to the design and demonstration of the clinical effectiveness of two brief psychological treatments for adult mental health problems [16, 17, 18]. Compas, B. E., Ey, S., & Grant, K. (1993). Both trials were initiated on 20 August 2018.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Within each workbook and guide are the five steps of POWER-Solving®, activities and strategies to promote generalization of skills, screening and assessment tools, and a letter to parents. Finger Oscillation Test. If we look at this process more closely, we discover that problem solving involves both creative and critical thinking.
Nolen-Hoeksema, S., & Girgus, J. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test, 3rd Edition. So make room for spontaneity and prepare yourself to be surprised and delighted as you discover your child's unique way of thinking. Collins PY, Patel V, Joestl SS, March D, Insel TR, Daar AS. Beck Depression Inventory manual. A combination of top-down and ingredients-based costing approaches will be used to generate cost estimates for the whole package, and for each package component (e. g., counselling sessions and POD booklets), in the intervention and control arms. As well as shaping the design of the two intervention steps, formative and pilot work suggested a need for awareness generation around the topics of mental health and psychological help-seeking. The Examiner Record Booklet provides space to record responses and transform the raw score to an age equivalent, percentile rank, and the Problem Solving Index. Other outcomes will be the proportion of referrals eligible to participate in the host trial, proportion of self-generated referrals, and severity and pattern of symptoms among referred adolescents in each condition. A detailed analysis plan will be agreed with the DSMC before any analysis is undertaken. Participants will receive either a brief problem-solving intervention delivered over 3 weeks by lay counsellors (intervention) or enhanced usual care comprised of problem-solving booklets (control). Das JK, Salam RA, Lassi ZS, Khan MN, Mahmood W, Patel V, et al.
School-Based Prevention and Early Intervention Programs for Depression. Any trial protocol amendments will be agreed and formulated in conjunction with the TSC and DSMC and submitted to relevant Institutional Review Boards for approval. Instant access to the full article PDF. Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.
Resource constraints are compounded by low demand for mental health care and the scarcity of context-specific evidence on the effectiveness of interventions [5]. Selected candidates will receive an intervention manual and complete one week of classroom-based training involving a combination of lectures, demonstrations, and role-plays. Roy K, Shinde S, Sarkar BK, Malik K, Parikh R, Patel V. India's response to adolescent mental health: a policy review and stakeholder analysis. Parikh, R., Michelson, D., Malik, K. et al. A detailed statistical analysis plan will be developed separately for each trial prior to unblinding. Our problem-solving intervention can be considered transdiagnostic in the sense that a single procedure is assumed to have generalized benefits for a diversity of clinical presentations. Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scales of Intelligence – 4th Edition. Results from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. Problem management plus (PM+): psychological help for adults in communities exposed to adversity: WHO Kenyan field-trial version 1. Participating in Discussions. Below is a list of some of the instruments we use in our office for evaluations.
Self-reported adolescent mental health symptoms and idiographic problems will be assessed at 6 weeks (co-primary outcomes) and again at 12 weeks post-randomization. Stress, coping, and development. The participating 70 classes will be randomized to receive the control and intervention conditions across two sequences. TOPS 2™ Adolescent Complete Kit. Morris J, Belfer M, Daniels A, Flisher A, Ville L, Lora A, et al. Stroop Color and Word Test. Developmental Psychology, 30, 467-483. A problem-solving intervention will be delivered to individual students across four to five face-to-face sessions spread over 3 weeks. Youth Top Problems: using idiographic, consumer-guided assessment to identify treatment needs and to track change during psychotherapy. GEE is a recommended method for analysis of stepped-wedge, cluster-randomized controlled trials, providing population-averaged effects of exposure across trial conditions [55]. Answer questions appropriately by giving relevant information in the right amount and staying on topic. The Manual includes recommendations for remediation based on subtest performance, and details what the student needs to do to be successful with each task, how the tasks relate to academic performance, the specific steps to complete each thinking task, and what the student's responses reflect about his or her thinking skills.
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 22, 487-500. The precise schedule of recruitment activities in the latter classes will be calibrated according to referral patterns and caseload capacity for intervention providers in the various schools. Petersen, A. C., Sarigiani, P. A., & Kennedy, R. (1991). As of August 2018, there were 172 classes in grades 9–12 with a total student population of 8448 (ranging from 1050 to 1632 per school; mean = 1408; standard deviation (SD) = 225), including 4694 (56%) boys and 3754 (44%) girls. Kaufman Survey of Early Academic Language Skills. Intervention quality and fidelity will be assessed in both trials using independent ratings of audio-recorded sessions. Language competence is the verbal indicator of how a student's language skills affect his ability to think, reason, problem solve, infer, classify, associate, predict, determine causes, sequence, and understand directions. All session audio-recordings will be linked with the participant ID and stored in a separate, secure, password-protected folder. Srinath S, Kandasamy P, Golhar TS. An evaluation of a common elements treatment approach for youth in Somali refugee camps. Master of Clinical Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Ferdows Branch. The student identifies the main idea after listening to a passage read aloud and then must recall his background knowledge of the topic and process the overall meaning of the passage.
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