Posted by SLS on December 28, 2015, at 12:47:10
In reply to Re: Brain development and CBT » john locke, posted by SLS on December 28, 2015, at 12:24:49
> > Would psychotherapy treatment for social anxiety like CBT that supposedly "changes the brain" work better before the age of 25 since the brain is still developing during this time and is potentially more malleable?
> I agree with Linkadge.
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> In studies of a mixed population of young children and adolescents, CBT is reported to be less effective for the older subjects. I'm not sure why.
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> I found these using Google:
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> http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/S15374424JCCP3003_13
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> http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/ccp/79/6/806/I would just add that CBT is reported to be effective in the elderly. I have not seen a comparison between adolescents and adults, though. Late life onset depression might be the result of processes that are distinctly different for early life depression, so this must be taken into consideration.
My personal experience with CBT and other psychotherapies is that they didn't help my bipolar depression at all, even though I found them helpful to cope with the illness and make some progress in my personal growth.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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