Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
ARTICLESA Two-Year Follow-up of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Internalizing Disorders in Children
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Participants
Fifty-eight children (35 male and 23 female) between the ages of 6.3 and 10.9 years (mean age 8.8 years; SD = 1.3) were enrolled among those referred from multiple community sources to the Division of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry, a suburban public academic hospital providing care to patients of all socioeconomic levels. Thirty of these participants were included in a pilot study (Muratori et al., 2002); on the basis of this previous study we have projected a sample size of 58 cases to
RESULTS
Means, standard deviations, and values of significance on each of the outcome measures are presented in Tables 2 and 3.
DISCUSSION
The comparison between the experimental and comparison group allows us to point out some similarities and some significant differences in their courses. Briefly, there is evidence that conditions of treatment influence the rate of change, with major improvements in the experimental group.
On the C-GAS, both groups improved significantly in the first 6 months after the first evaluation, but only the experimental group showed a shift to the nonclinical range maintained at the 2-year follow-up. On
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This study was supported by grant RC 6/01 from the National Institute of Health, Italy. The authors thank Benedetto Vitiello of the NIMH for the useful comments on the manuscript.