A meta-analysis of the effects of psychotherapy with sexually abused children and adolescents

Interventions for children and adolescents with posttraumatic stress disorder: A meta-analysis of comparative outcome studies

“…While there were not enough trials available to examine the efficacy of TF-CBT alone as compared to waitlist at follow-up, this treatment was related to medium effect sizes when compared to active control conditions at follow-up regarding both PTSD and depression symptoms. The results related to TF-CBT are in line with previous meta-analyses with children and adolescents with PTSD symptoms (de Arellano et al, 2014;Gillies et al, 2012;Harvey & Taylor, 2010) as well as with adults with PTSD (Bisson et al, 2013), including adults who had reported childhood abuse (Ehring et al, 2014). There is indication that trauma-focused interventions are underutilized in routine clinical practice (Becker, Zayfert, & Anderson, 2004;van Minnen, Hendriks, & Olff, 2010).…”

“…Previously published meta-analyses regarding psychological interventions for children and adolescents suffering from PTSD have largely focused on one specific intervention type, such as traumafocused cognitive behavior therapy (TF-CBT) or school-based interventions, or on a particular type of traumatic exposure, such as sexual abuse (Cary & McMillen, 2012;de Arellano et al, 2014;Harvey & Taylor, 2010;Kowalik, Weller, Venter, & Drachman, 2011;Lenz & Hollenbaugh, 2015;Macdonald et al, 2012). Silverman et al (2008) and Gillies, Taylor, Gray, O'Brien, and D'Abrew (2012) have meta-analyzed the efficacy of multiple psychological treatments for children and adolescents who have been exposed to different traumatic events.…”

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder after Childhood Sexual Abuse in Patients with and without Borderline Personality Disorder: A Randomised Controlled Trial

“…CBT, in which treatments are conducted with a predefined sequence of sessions, has been shown to be efficacious in patients with CSA-related PTSD [19]. To date, there have been three RCTs that have focused exclusively on patients suffering from CSA-related PTSD [20,21,22], and another five in which at least half the participants reported a history of CSA [23,24,25,26,27].…”

Treatment of the Sexually Abused Child: Review and Synthesis of Recent Meta-Analyses

“…Corcoran and Pillai (2008) used both and results suggested the absence of significant heterogeneity among the effect sizes. Harvey and Taylor (2010) used a fixed model, as the distribution of effect sizes was often heterogeneous, indicating that studies disagreed on the magnitude of the effect size (i.e., there was more variation amongst effect sizes than would be expected from sampling error). In the Trask et al (2011) study a high rate of heterogeneity across effect sizes existed and therefore a random effects model was employed.…”