Depressed adolescents receive the intervention with 8 modules/week of treatment in combination with 30 minutes of weekly real-time digital chat. The treatment focuses on self-awareness and insight in relationships and inhibiting emotional barriers (avoidance, unconscious defense mechanisms, resistance).
There has been a dramatic increase in affective/emotional disorders among adolescents in Norway and a subsequent and significant increase in referrals to specialized healthcare services in child and adolescent psychiatry.
Therefore, there is a need for easily accessible treatment options for youth. low-threshold interventions in primary healthcare services and specifically within school healthcare services should be researched. With increased access to internet-based interventions, offering therapy online has become increasingly common and widely accepted. This form of treatment is particularly suitable for reaching adolescents at an early stage, preventing more extensive treatment needs and potentially preventing recurrence and chronicity.
Goals
The project will research a structured, empirically based interventions that is for the first time offered in primary health care. As the intervention can be implemented in several municipalities/counties within the primary healthcare services, the project has national relevance. IDUN will be able to reach adolescents who may fall between primary and specialized healthcare services, regardless of their residence in the country and find out who will profit best from the intervention.
- IDUN builds om the large ERiCA-study
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