Disorder-specific cognitive-behavioral therapy for separation @entity148 in young XXXX : a randomized waiting-list-controlled trial.

@entity1 @entity9855 @entity146 @entity73 @entity148 @entity1172
BACKGROUND: @entity1172 ( @entity1172 ) is one of the earliest and most common @entity146 in childhood, and a strong predictor of adult psychopathology. Despite significant progress in psychotherapy research on @entity148 , no randomized controlled trial has been conducted with a disorder-specific treatment program for young @entity1 suffering from @entity1172 . METHODS: Forty-three @entity1 (ages 5-7) with @entity1172 and their parents were assigned to either a 16-session disorder-specific @entity1172 treatment program including parent training and classical cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) components, or to a 12-week waiting list group. Categorical and/or continuous data for @entity148 , @entity73 and quality of life were collected at baseline, after treatment/waiting list condition, and at a 4-week follow-up. RESULTS: Intention-to-treat analyses indicate that 76.19% of @entity1 allocated to the treatment group definitively no longer fulfilled DSM-IV criteria for @entity1172 at follow-up, compared to 13.64% in the waiting list group. Between 91 and 100% of @entity1 rated themselves or were rated by their father, mother or therapist as very much or much improved on the global success rating immediately after treatment. Results indicated large time by treatment condition interaction effect sizes (d = 0.98-1.41) across informants for reduction of distress/avoidance in separation situations after the test for the treatment condition. Further, parents reported significant improvements in @entity73 in the @entity1 ' @entity9855 life domains and the @entity1 's quality of life. Treatment gains were maintained at the 4-week follow-up assessment. CONCLUSIONS: Results indicate the short-term efficacy of a disorder-specific treatment approach for @entity1172 , and are among the first to indicate that CBT programs work with young @entity1 .
