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Chapter V: Discussion
group cognitive-behavioral therapy for depressed adolescent offspring of depressed parents.
Cicchetti et al. (1997) suggest that emotion and cognition are separate developmental domains
where emotions are conceived as emerging in interaction with cognitive advances, necessitating
a consideration of developmental changes in both domains and exerting a reciprocal influence on
each other. A study implementing emotion-focused cognitive behavioral therapy for six anxious
children aged 9 to 13, including emotion understanding and regulation skills, reveals initial
support for an emotion-focused cognitive-behavior therapy for anxious children (Suveg et al.,
2006).
Adolescence provides an opportune time for translating research into practice. It is the
time when the rate of depression increases, amidst expanding minds and environments. It is also
a time where most adolescents are still in schools and where universal, selective, and clinical
intervention strategies can have a common ground.
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