Opportunities and Challenges in the Dissemination of Depression Prevention Strategies: Reflections on Three Trials.

William R. Beardslee, MD
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

ABSTRACT:
Dr. Beardslee will review three separate depression prevention trials in terms of their implications for dissemination of evidence-based depression prevention strategies. One, the Prevention of Depression Project employed a cognitive behavioral group prevention based on the Coping with Depression and showed sustained effects. A second evaluated a problem solving preventive approach in Headstart mothers. A third, the Preventive Intervention Project used a psychoeducational on narrative approach for families with parental depression.