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Online Interventions About Depression Discussion and Response
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Discussion 1: Online Interventions
Adolescence is a time of trials and tribulations. Teens are dealing with the formation of self and identifying who they are in the world. They are also experiencing biological changes that create mood swings and at times emotional outbursts. Interventions for this group can be challenging, as adolescents often avoid asking for assistance. This avoidance is due to their desire to look normal and fit in. Online interventions might be one way to reach adolescents who need help.
For this Discussion, choose a concern that adolescents face, such as depression, suicide, self-esteem, eating disorders, substance abuse, or family dynamics and family conflict. Conduct research to find an online intervention that addresses this concern.
By Day 3
Post a description of an Internet-based intervention used with adolescents to address the concern you identified. Describe the intervention and the underlying theory. Identify the target behaviors that this intervention is used to address. Finally, describe the strengths and weaknesses of the intervention.
Support your posts with specific references to the Learning Resources. Be sure to provide full APA citations for your references.
By Day 5
Respond to at least two colleagues who identified a different internet-based intervention and provide feedback and/or expand on their post in some way.
Support your responses with specific references to the Learning Resources. Be sure to provide full APA citations for your references.
Colleague1:Antoinette
Hello All,
Post a description of an Internet-based intervention used with adolescents to address the concern you identified. Describe the intervention and the underlying theory. Identify the target behaviors that this intervention is used to address. Finally, describe the strengths and weaknesses of the intervention.
As adolescents development, they are faced with phsicsal changes as well as peer pressures, have abstract ways of thinking, and have the demands of society weighing them down. The internet as changed and has and plays a big part in how adolescent view others. It always cause the increased pressures teens face.LeCroy & Williams (2013), notes the Internet and the media have been held at least partly responsible for the increase in risk-taking behaviors in adolescence.A wide range of Internet interventions, mostly grounded in methods of cognitive behavioral therapy, have been developed and tested for several mental disorders (Schröder, Berger, Westermann, Klein, & Moritz, 2016). Although self- help interventions via online are unguided interventions they can include minimal regular assistance from therapist. There is high demand on the mental health field and professionals have to create new innovative ways to help this population. Internet interventions mostly are modules of material and trainings that are on methods imitative of CBT and are therefore called Internet-based CBT. The Internet is a large system while the health system is massive, types of care differ across countries. The opportunity to learn from self-help interventions is evidence that is necessary for future growth.
Reference
Kenter, R. M., Cuijpers, P., Beekman, A., & van Straten, A. (2016). Effectiveness of a Web-Based Guided Self-help Intervention for Outpatients With a Depressive
Disorder: Short-term Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of medical Internet research, 18(3), e80. https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.4861
LeCroy, C. W., & Williams, L. R. (2013). Intervention with adolescents. In M. Holosko, C. Dulmus, & K. Sowers (Eds.), Social work practice with individuals and families: Evidence- informed assessments and interventions (pp. 97–124). Hoboken, NJ: Wil
Colleague 2: Kristine
For this discussion I chose family dynamics and conflict with a subset of mental health. I found an online article titled, Family Connections and Involvement in Interventions for Adolescent Problem Behaviors, written by Elly Robinson, Lyndal Power, and David Allan (March 2010). There is evidence that “family-based interventions for problems in adolescence is an area of research that is comparatively in its infancy”, and one needs to take caution (Robinson, 2010). Through family-based interventions, the inclusion of therapies such as cognitive behavioral therapy and psychodynamic therapy, treatment for major adolescent depression is effective. This multisystemic therapy approach has evidence-based backing for being effective in depression, conduct disorder, adolescent substance abuse, and delinquency (Robinson, 2010). Strengths of this approach are the fluidness of the therapies. They range from individual therapies for the adolescent to inclusion of the family unit in helping to solve the adolescent’s dilemma. It is not about the parents or siblings being the enemy, or the cause of the problem, but in helping them understand the perspective of the adolescent about the problem, to come to an understanding and solution together. Bringing the family unit back to hope, and a connectedness that had been missing. The weakness is it is too new of area, it lacks strong research into what works or does not work. More is needed.
References
Robinson, E., Power, L., & Allan, D. (2010). What works with adolescents? Family connections and involvement in interventions for adolescent problem behaviors. Retrieved from https://www.aifs.gov.au/cfca/publications/what-wor… connections-and-involvement.
