Investigating adherence promoters in evidence-based mental health interventions with children and adolescents.

The effectiveness of Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) interventions in child and adolescent mental health is undermined by poor client adherence to treatment protocols. To counter this trend, adherence promoters, supplemental interventions to facilitate client adherence to treatment protocols, have evolved to increase adherence. This study investigates patterns of adherence promoting interventions employed in conjunction with RCT of interventions for child and adolescent mental health problems.

Boys' and girls' responses to stress: affect and heart rate during a speech task.

Purpose: To examine gender differences in heart rate and reports of negative and positive affect among adolescents during a speech task.

Methods: Subjects were 133 adolescents, 73 girls and 60 boys, ages 14-18 years. Subjects were randomly assigned to speak for 10 minutes and asked either to free associate or to describe the most stressful event in their lives.