Video-visit Behavior Therapy for Anxiety and Depression in Youth

Video-visit Behavior Therapy for Anxiety and Depression in Youth

This project focuses on adapting and pilot testing an efficacious brief behavioral therapy (STEP-UP) for youths with anxiety or depression to be delivered as a telehealth intervention by clinic staff in low-resource community health centers (CHCs).

Inclusion Criteria:

• Youth is a patient at a participating community health center (CHC) site
• Youth is clinically referred by a provider and / or has anxiety and / or depression as a diagnosis or target problem in their medical record
• Youth is in the physical and legal custody of the caretaker and is not currently involved in the foster care system
• Youth is able and willing to conduct study assessments and intervention sessions in English
• Primary caretaker is able and willing to conduct study assessments and intervention sessions in English or in Spanish
• Youth is functioning at or above the academic level of a typical 8-year-old child (i.e., placed in at least the second-grade level school across all subjects in a general education classroom)
• Primary caretaker agrees that focusing on anxiety and / or depression would be a useful primary target for treatment
• Youth has clinically significant symptoms of anxiety and / or depression by youth or caretaker report

Exclusion Criteria:

• Youth is receiving an alternate intervention for anxiety or depression
• Youth or parent reports that the youth is experiencing active suicidal ideation with plan or intent (i.e., within last three months) and / or has made a suicide attempt within the last six months
• Youth or parent reports that the youth is currently engaging in non-suicidal self-injury (i.e., within last three months)
• Youth or parent reports that the youth has experienced recent physical or sexual abuse (i.e., within last three months).