Which depressed patients respond to cognitive-behavioral treatment?

Objective: To identify predictors of remission from major depression in adolescent patients given cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT).

Method: The study was based on 50 patients aged between 10 and 17 years who were obtained from two studies of CBT. A wide range of possible predictors was examined.

Clinical validity of major depression-endogenous subtype in adolescent patients.

This paper explored the validity of the distinction between endogenous and nonendogenous forms of major depression in a clinical sample of adolescents, average age 13.6 years. The criteria used to establish this distinction were features of the disorder itself and the external criteria of demography, family history and psychosocial stressors.

Pilot study of continuation cognitive-behavioral therapy for major depression in adolescent psychiatric patients.

Objective: To determine whether continuation of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT-C) could prevent relapse in adolescent psychiatric patients who had remitted from major depressive disorder (MDD).

Method: Seventeen patients who continued to have CBT-C for 6 months after remission from MDD were compared with a historical control group of 12 cases who had no further treatment after remission.

Results: Only 1 of the 17 cases who continued with CBT-C dropped out.

Failure of pain relief after surgery. Attitudes of ward staff and patients to postoperative analgesia.

Three surveys of postoperative patients and surgical ward staff were conducted in an 840-bed university hospital to ascertain the severity of pain after surgery and the reasons why patients in pain do not receive more of the analgesia prescribed for them. In the first survey, 206 inpatients were questioned within 24 h following operation, and 25.2% of patients experienced moderate pain whilst 9.