Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Depression Report

This report investigates the effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in treating depression, particularly among adolescents, and its role in suicide prevention. It discusses CBT as a widely used psychotherapy, highlighting the increasing rates of adolescent suicide and the significance of mental health interventions. The study explores various CBT treatment approaches, including individual, family, and supportive therapies, and analyzes their impact on reducing suicidal ideation and hopelessness. Research findings indicate that CBT can significantly decrease suicide rates by improving cognitive skills and addressing underlying causes of depression. The report also examines limitations of CBT, the importance of motivation, and the influence of modern lifestyles and parenting styles on adolescent mental health. It concludes by emphasizing the need for future trials and active parental participation in CBT treatment to effectively reduce suicidal risk.

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Introduction:
Depression is one of of the common reason among the adolescent which needs treatment.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is the widely used physiothearphy which is used in treating
the young and the adolescents suffering from depressions. A suicidal attempt is the peak cause
of deaths in adolescents today and these numbers are increasing day by day. Suicide is one of the
foremost reasons for death all over the world in adolescents. It has a major effect on the comfort
of the person, reasons of momentous death and mental diseases and has the same effect on their
family members, society, and health of their parents. Stress, majorly forms an interpersonal
conflict and primarily triggers the depressive episode or the suicidal disaster in the predisposed
youths. To prevent these cases number of different methods has been adopted which deals with
the suicide ideation but the most effective method is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
CBT treatment of depression:
Suicide is the third reasons for the deaths in youths. The main reasons for the suicidal attempts in
the adolescents are a depressive disorder. Here it has been found that Cognitive Behavioural
Therapy can beneficial in improving the health and prospective of teens, it also improvesskills to
handle theirproblem and competitionin life. All of which have been mentioned are the problems
usually is with persons whohave suicidalideas. It has been believed that hopelessness is number
cause for depression and needs treatment. Meanwhile, there are many treatments available for
treatment but CBT has been proven the best because it deals with the roots in the sucidial
feelings that were the problems has been started.

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The study discussed was intended to assess the effectiveness of CBT in declining in the depths
suicida lideation and hopelessness in the young depressed adolescents who had a positive
complete history of earlier suicidal attempt in the precedent months (Cakovic, 2008).. In a study,
it has been seen that when the patients have been treated through CBT then an effective decrease
in the graph of suicides so it has proved to be the suitable for sucidial cases. In 2011 to 2012
youth of age 12 to 18 years were admitted to the hospitiles after the sucide attempt whot tried in
last 3 months from the different parts of the country and there parents reported that there child
was under depression rom a perticular period of time (Cakovic, 2008). The CBT teratment was
started with a randomized selection process. In this individulas from different parts of the
country were selected on the bases of the seriousness of the sucidial attempt. In the first
treatment, there were 107 youngstres which were between the age of 13 to 18 years and the has
to be treated with the major depressive disorder (Cakovic, 2008).. They were divided into 3
different groups nad has to pass through three treatment phases which are as follows: First is
CBT for the individual, second is systematic behaviour family therapy and last is Individual
nondirective supportive therapy (Hides et.al, 2010). Each treatment consists of 12 to 16 phases
which last for 10 to 16 weeks. There are aloso a special 2 to 4 sessions. Participents who were
diagonsed through CBT shows lower MMD as compared to the non directive supportive tharepy.
It was recorded that there is 30 percent decrease in the suicide case after the individuals who had
passed through different sessions. So what was that which helps to reduce sucidial cases, it is
nothing but to improve the ideation and thinking capability of the company. A second treatment
was conducted where 206 depressed college students, Same randomized proceses were taken
into use for selecting the individuals (Hides et.al, 2010). For the 12 weeks only to treatment were
followed one is same CBT for individual and second is Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor, in this

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different symptoms were recorded which are recorded through observing thoughts, ideation
(Nelson & Duncan, 2015)..
A list was made after the following treatment; this list was future base for the comparison for the
decrease in the suicide cases (Carmin, 2012). The inventory contains the name, their personal
details, the reason for the suicide attempt and seriousness of the reason which compels him or
her to attempt a suicide. It was recorded that uncontrollable depression. It is the almost the same
reasons for the suicidal attempt and depression is due to many different causes from individual to
individual. One most common cause is the hopelessness (Carmin, 2012).
There are nostatistic major differences in all of the above mention tools which measure the
chance of depression.The age distribution of the groups was not so different on which the report
was made. This means that these two groups were same and equivalent and the experimental
differences after the involvement can be attributed (Bowers, 2002). Since there had been
different studies which had proved the congitive behavioural therapy most effective, which helps
to remove the deep reason for the suicidal ideation. After the complete CBT treatment the
individuals vere felt very motivated and a life time opportunity for living (Kathryn McHugh,
2010). Females were at the top of the list as they come out of the weared situation of the life
which became the reason for the sucide(Nelson & Duncan, 2015).. The scores which are
mentioned in the control group after 3 months did not change significantly in all of them, but the
scores in all of these lists decreased considerably in these group Some limitations of CBT
(Kathryn McHugh, 2010). According, to the CBT report, the problems with the youth are lack of
motivation in the individual because of different. So a suitable way in the treatment was found so
that a feeling of inspiration should be filled which was the first step in one of the phase. Results
of the cognitive behaviour therapy were outstanding because of the decrease in the rate of the

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suicidal attempts (Nielsen, 2015). It also reported that modern life style is also a reason for
suicide because of the increase in the pressure of wether studies or work, society or family
pressure puts strains on the brains of the individual force an individual to hopelessness results
trying for the suicide. In the inventory, it was clearly mentioned that lack of good parenting style
increases the depression in the adolescents (Nielsen, 2015). Different phases of the CBT mission
only to find the key rooted reason, different therapy was preformed so that a complete scanning
of the individual was done.

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The scores which are mentioned in the above table after 3 months of study do change
significantly but the scores in the entire above table are ininventory reduce significantly in the
intrusion set.
Conclusion:
A considerable progress had been achieved in the reducing the suicidal attempts by CBT method
of treatment in the past several years in adolescents. Cognitive behaviour therapy is the well
established treatment for the children and adolescents (Lorenzo et.al, 2016). It gives us the
evidence about the complicated reasons, so that in future there will be a decrease in the suicide
cases. It shows that different angry feelings and losing self-control increase the depression in the
adolescents. In CBT adolescents were asked to keep cool in every situation in life (Bowers,
2002). So, CBT treatments lay emphasis on the deeper reasons before it starts its treatments.
The number of therapies for depression has increased, there is still little evidence based
information indicating how or why these treatments work (Lorenzo et.al, 2016).
Although an ultimate treatment for adolescent suicide who attempts suicide has yet to be
established, the limited records suggest that suicidal thoughts and behaviour should be directly
addressed for best treatment result (Bowers, 2002). Training adolescents in specific skills for
coping depression and affect good techniques that can be applied to thoughts and behaviours
associated with suicidal cases. However, future trials for the CBT is very necessary because it
has been proven the optimal way to reduce the suicidal risk in the individuals and the parents of
such individuals should actively participate in the forcing their children who are depressed and
hopeless in life to pass through the CBT treatment process which helps them to remove the ill
thought from their mindsets (Persons, 2016).

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