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  • Adolescents with ADHD have a higher risk for depression, prompting the development of the BEAM program, which aims to prevent depressive symptoms by focusing on factors like emotion regulation and family support.
  • The program involved eight adolescents and their parents, who reported high satisfaction and staff found it easy to implement.
  • Results showed significant reductions in depressive symptoms and improvements in emotion regulation and reward responsivity, indicating that BEAM may effectively help adolescents with ADHD despite limitations like a small sample size and no control group.

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Adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at elevated risk for experiencing unipolar depressive symptoms and disorders. The current study describes the development of a behaviorally oriented depression preventive intervention tailored for adolescents with ADHD targeting variables empirically shown to mediate ADHD and depression (i.e., reward responsivity, emotion regulation, and family support). Eight adolescents with a history of ADHD and currently elevated depressive symptoms and their parents participated in an open trial of the Behaviorally Enhancing Adolescents' Mood (BEAM) program. Adolescents and their parents reported high satisfaction with BEAM. Staff reported BEAM was easy to implement with high adherence. Following BEAM, there were significant reductions in parent-report of adolescents' depressive symptoms and emotion regulation at posttreatment and the 6-week follow-up and adolescent-report of reward responsivity at posttreatment. Case vignettes are also provided to illustrate implementation of the BEAM program. In spite of the small sample, lack of a control group, and some discrepancies across informants, results overall support the feasibility and acceptability of the BEAM program, and suggest it has promise in reducing depressive symptoms in adolescents with ADHD.

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