Shared decision-making for youth psychotherapy: A preliminary randomized clinical trial on facilitating personalized treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Engaging youth and caregivers as active collaborators in the treatment planning process is a patient-centered approach with the potential to facilitate the personalization of established evidence-based treatments. This study is the first randomized clinical trial to evaluate shared decision-making (SDM) to plan youth psychotherapy.

Method

Forty youth (7-15 years; 33% ethnic minority) were randomly assigned to psychosocial treatment planned using SDM (n = 20) or planned primarily by the clinician (n = 20). In the SDM condition, clinicians guided youth and caregivers through a collaborative treatment planning process that relies on research findings to inform three primary decisions: (a) treatment target problem(s), (b) treatment participants, and (c) t

SUBMITTER: Langer DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9784837 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature