Therapist-guided internet-based psychodynamic therapy versus cognitive behavioural therapy for adolescent depression in Sweden: a randomised, clinical, non-inferiority trial

“I didn’t have to look her in the eyes”—participants’ experiences of the therapeutic relationship in internet-based psychodynamic therapy for adolescent depression

“…Most interventions have been based on cognitive behavioral therapy (ICBT; , but internet-based psychodynamic psychotherapy (IPDT) has also been developed and evaluated with promising results for a range of adult patient groups (e. g. Johansson et al, 2013;Lindegaard et al, 2020). Recently, IPDT for depressed adolescents was evaluated in two studies whose results showed large effect sizes and non-inferiority compared to ICBT (Lindqvist et al, 2020;Mechler et al, 2022). The process of change through IPDT for the treatment of adolescent depression has been investigated (Leibovich et al, 2022), showing that psychodynamic techniques used by therapists during synchronous chat sessions predicted subsequent improvements in depressive symptomatology.…”

Therapeutic alliance is calming and curing—The interplay between alliance and emotion regulation as predictors of outcome in Internet-based treatments for adolescent depression.

“…The QIDS-A17-SR has been found valid and reliable for both adult (Rush et al, 2003) and adolescent (Bernstein et al, 2010) populations. In the present sample, Mechler et al (2022) reported an average Cronbach's α across all time-points of .80, indicating good internal consistency.…”

“…Accumulating evidence suggests that guided self-help over the internet has large effects for a range of psychological problems with similar effects as face-to-face treatments (Andersson & Berger, 2021; Andersson et al, 2019; Karyotaki et al, 2021). Most guided self-help treatments are based on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), but recently, alternatives based on psychodynamic therapy (PDT) have been developed, showing promising effects for anxiety and depression in adults (Lindegaard et al, 2020), and for adolescent depression (Lindqvist et al, 2020; Mechler et al, 2022).…”

“Good job!”: Therapists' encouragement, affirmation, and personal address in internet-based cognitive behavior therapy for adolescents with depression

“…Data for this study came from the ERiCA (Early Internet-Based Interventions for Children and Adolescents) project at Stockholm University, in collaboration with Linköping University, comparing ICBT against internet-based psychodynamic therapy (IPDT) for adolescents with depression ( Mechler et al, 2022 ). The ICBT intervention consists of eight modules over ten weeks.…”