Change processes in cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing for depression and heavy alcohol use: A network approach.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Both cognitive behavioral therapy for depression (CBT-D) combined with brief motivational interviewing (CBT-D + BMI) and alone are associated with symptom improvement among college students with co-occurring depression and heavy episodic drinking (HED). However, little is known about change processes underlying these different treatments.The current study uses a network approach to examine change process that may differentially underlie CBT-D + BMI relative to CBT alone.

Methods

Participants included 94 college students with depression and HED who were randomized to either eight weeks of CBT-D + BMI or CBT alone. A network approach was adopted to examine how treatment condition influenced changes in the network structure of depression symptoms, heavy drinking, drin

SUBMITTER: Curtiss JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10702971 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature