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SAN FRANCISCO -- Group cognitive-behavioral therapy limited the onset of depression in 94 adolescents at high risk for depression, according to prospective, randomized trial results.
"This provides some compelling beginning evidence to think about treating children or adolescents before they develop full-blown major depression," Dr. Karen Dineen Wagner said in an industry-sponsored symposium at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association.
The adolescents had subsyndromal depressive symptoms that didn't quite meet DSM criteria for major depression, and all had at least one parent who was depressed; these issues put them at high risk for…