Engaging depressed African American adolescents in treatment: lessons from the AAKOMA PROJECT
Alfiee M Breland-Noble, Antoinette Burriss, H Kathy Poole, AAKOMA PROJECT Adult Advisory Board, Alfiee M Breland-Noble, Antoinette Burriss, H Kathy Poole, AAKOMA PROJECT Adult Advisory Board
Abstract
The authors describe and illustrate means of engaging depressed African American adolescents in treatment. Twenty-eight youth participated in focus groups or individual interviews. Using grounded theory and transcript based analysis, they derived 5 themes describing African American adolescents' experience of depression and suggested mechanisms for improving African American youth treatment engagement. Practitioners can educate African American youth about depression as a medical disorder, build trust, and apply innovative approaches to recognizing differential manifestations of depression in African American youth.
Source: PubMed