Preliminary investigation of the feasibility of a long-term but low-frequency preventive intervention for depression in Japanese high schools.

Aim: We explored the feasibility of a long-term but low-frequency psychological preventive intervention in a high school setting.

Background: High school students may experience depression; psychological interventions to improve social and cognitive skills may be useful to decrease such depression. A long-term but low-frequency intervention may be feasible in this setting because of its minimal time demands and lack of need for specialist human resources DESIGN: We conducted a single-arm longitudinal descriptive study with an intervention applied six times over 2 years in one high school.

Impact of repetitive thought and processing mode on goal striving.

Background And Objectives: Striving to attain personal goals is important for maintaining well-being. Previous research indicates that repetitive thoughts can influence the affect and cognition associated with personal goal strivings. Repetitive thought in the concrete-experiential processing mode improves affect and cognition after a negative event more than does repetitive thought in the abstract-analytic processing mode.