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Christine Kuehner, PhD

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In the September 2008 issue of the Archives, Miklowitz and colleagues¹ present results of a 2-year randomized trial on family-focused treatment for adolescents with bipolar disorder (FFT-A). They conclude that FFT-A is effective in stabilizing bipolar depressive symptoms among adolescents.

Since this is the first published randomized psychotherapy trial in this population, the topic is of high importance and interest to colleagues from research and clinical practice. Unfortunately, however, the report lacks important information necessary to assess the actual efficacy of the intervention because Miklowitz and colleagues did not report the exact number of subjects per group who entered the study in a syndromally depressed state. On page 1057, they note that the rate of recovery from index-episode depressive symptoms was high in the FFT-A (30 of 30, 100%) and control (25 of 28, 89.3%) group but that the FFT-A group experienced more rapid recovery from . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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