Primary Prevention of Anxiety and Depression

描述（由申请人提供）：一个以学校为基础的干预，旨在防止焦虑和抑郁症状的青少年准备过渡到中学的发作将在一个大型学校系统实施。将评估课程实施一年后干预对焦虑和抑郁症状的影响。干预措施将由教师在一个学年内实施。预防课程包括认知行为部分，包括归因再训练、解决问题技能训练和放松训练，以及情绪调节部分。这种干预措施扩展了以前的预防性干预措施，纳入了旨在预防焦虑和抑郁发作的策略，并包括侧重于情绪调节技能的组成部分。主要结果是焦虑和重度抑郁症状，次要结果包括社交能力和学业成绩。这门课程的实施将发生在情感素养课程的充分资助调查的背景下。本建议只调查预防课程的独立效果。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A school-based intervention designed to prevent the onset of anxious and depressive symptoms in adolescents preparing to transition to middle school will be implemented in a large school system. The effects of the intervention on symptoms of anxiety and depression one year following implementation of the curriculum will be evaluated. The intervention will be administered by teachers over the course of one academic year. The prevention curriculum involves cognitive-behavioral components, including attribution retraining, problem solving skills training, and relaxation training, as well as emotion regulation components. This intervention extends previous preventive interventions by incorporating strategies intended to prevent the onset of both anxiety and depression and by including components focused on emotion regulation skills. Primary outcomes are symptoms of anxiety and major depression, and secondary outcomes include social competence and academic achievement. Implementation of this curriculum will occur in the context of a fully funded investigation of an emotional literacy curriculum. Only the independent effects of the prevention curriculum will be investigated for the purpose of this proposal.