Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Adolescents with Sleep Disturbances

This article aimed to determine whether the outcomes seen in the two IMPACT trials were due to specific psychotherapeutic techniques of if common factors in psychotherapy led to improvement in both depressive symptoms and sleep disturbance

Educational Objectives

Educational Aim:
This article aimed to determine whether the outcomes seen in the two IMPACT trials were due to specific psychotherapeutic techniques of if common factors in psychotherapy led to improvement in both depressive symptoms and sleep disturbance.

Educational Outcomes:
Upon completion of this module practitioners should have a clear understanding of:

1. Adolescents with severe depression and endogenous features constitute a subgroup that are more likely to respond to pharmacotherapy than patients with less severe depression

2. Sleep disturbance is one of the most common symptoms in adolescents diagnosed with a depressive illness
3. Young participants with a depression subtype characterized mainly by reactive features be more likely to respond to psychotherapy than participants with endogenous depression.

Instructions for this Module

• Read the supplied reading material and complete the quiz that follows;
• You have three attempts to pass the quiz;
• The pass grade is 70%;
• You need to pass the quiz to claim your CPD certificate;
• Please click on the CPD certificate link below to claim your CPD certificate and to update your CPD Manager.

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