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. 2010 Aug;66(8):868-79.
doi: 10.1002/jclp.20708.

Engaging depressed African American adolescents in treatment: lessons from the AAKOMA PROJECT

Alfiee M Breland-Noble  1 , Antoinette Burriss, H Kathy Poole; AAKOMA PROJECT Adult Advisory Board
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Engaging depressed African American adolescents in treatment: lessons from the AAKOMA PROJECT

Alfiee M Breland-Noble et al. J Clin Psychol. 2010 Aug.

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.

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