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  • Guided parent-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy for Japanese children and parents: a single-arm uncontrolled study

  • Sho Okawa, Honami Arai, Hideki Nakamura, Shin-ichi Ishikawa, Cathy Creswell, Yuki Shiko, Yoshihito Ozawa, Yohei Kawasaki, Eiji Shimizu
  • Journal:
    Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy / Volume 51 / Issue 3 / May 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    03 February 2023, pp. 265-270
    Print publication:
    May 2023
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  • Background:

    Guided parent-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy (GPD-CBT) is an effective low-intensity treatment for childhood anxiety disorder in Western countries and can increase access to evidence-based psychological therapies.

    Aim:

    This study aimed to examine its feasibility in a Japanese sample.

    Method:

    Twelve children with anxiety disorders and their parents participated in the study, and ten children and parents completed the program. Participants were assessed at pre-, post- and one-month follow-up using a diagnostic interview for anxiety disorders, self- and parent-report measures for anxiety, depression, parental behaviour, and parental anxiety.

    Results:

    Four children (40% of completers) were free from their primary diagnoses immediately following the brief treatment, and seven children (70%) at the one-month follow-up. Changes in disorder severity, child and parent reported anxiety symptoms, and child reported depression symptoms were consistent with those found in Western trials of GPD-CBT and of Japanese trials of more intensive CBT for child anxiety disorders that involves both the child and the parent. Moderate increases were also found in child reported parental autonomy behaviours; however, there were only small changes in parent self-reported anxiety.

    Conclusion:

    These results support the potential of GPD-CBT to increase access to evidence-based treatments for anxiety disorders in Japanese children.

  • Development of the Anger Children’s Cognitive Error Scale and the Anger Children’s Automatic Thought Scale

  • Kohei Kishida, Masaya Takebe, Chisato Kuribayashi, Yuichi Tanabe, Shin-ichi Ishikawa
  • Journal:
    Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy / Volume 50 / Issue 5 / September 2022
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    28 June 2022, pp. 481-492
    Print publication:
    September 2022
  • Background:

    Empirical studies between anger and anger-provoking cognitive variables in children and adolescents are lacking, despite numerous studies on internalising and externalising problems.

    Aim:

    The purpose of this study was to develop new questionnaires for anger-provoking cognitive errors and automatic thoughts, and examine relationships between anger, cognitive errors, and automatic thoughts in children and adolescents.

    Method:

    Participants were 485 Japanese children and adolescents aged 9–15 years old (254 females; average age 12.07; SD = 1.81). They completed the Anger Children’s Cognitive Error Scale (A-CCES) and the Anger Children’s Automatic Thought Scale (A-CATS), which were developed in this study, as well as the Anger Scale for Children and Adolescents and the Japanese version of Short Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale.

    Results:

    Both the A-CCES and the A-CATS had adequate reliability (internal consistency) and validity (face validity, structural validity and construct validity). A hierarchal regression analysis indicated that automatic thoughts were positively and moderately related to anger (β = .37) after controlling for age, gender, anxiety symptoms, cognitive errors and interaction term. Moreover, a mediation analysis indicated that automatic thoughts significantly mediated the relationship between cognitive errors and anger (indirect effect, 0.24; 95% CI: .020 to .036).

    Conclusions:

    This study developed the new questionnaires to assess anger-provoking cognitive errors and automatic thoughts. In addition, this study revealed that automatic thoughts rather than cognitive errors are associated with anger in children and adolescents.

  • Transdiagnostic Behavioural Intervention for Children with Anxiety and Depressive Disorders: A Feasibility Study

  • Kohei Kishida, Shin-ichi Ishikawa, Ayaka Ubara, Nozomi Abe, Honami Arai
  • Journal:
    Behaviour Change / Volume 39 / Issue 4 / December 2022
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    17 November 2021, pp. 235-246

  • There is increasing support for the efficacy of transdiagnostic cognitive behavioural interventions for anxiety and depression. However, little is known about the applicability of transdiagnostic behavioural interventions for children younger than 12 years old. This study was conducted to examine the feasibility and potential efficacy of Streamlined Transdiagnostic Intervention for Anxiety and Depression (STREAM) for children with anxiety and/or depressive disorders using a randomised controlled design with a wait-list control (WLC) condition and blind-assessments. Of the 22 potential participants, 16 Japanese children (M = 9.81; SD = 0.75; range 9–12 years) with principal anxiety or depressive disorder were eligible and enrolled. Then, the participants were randomly assigned to the STREAM or WLC condition. The dropout rates were 0% for both the conditions at post-assessment. Mixed model analyses showed that, although there were no significant interactions at post-assessment between both the conditions, both anxiety and depressive disorders significantly improved at 3 months compared with pre-assessment for the combined condition (the STREAM and WLC conditions). Therefore, this study demonstrated the feasibility of the STREAM in the Japanese clinical setting and potentially supported its efficacy for children with anxiety and depressive disorders at the follow-up assessment.

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Japanese Children and Adolescents with Anxiety Disorders: A Pilot Study

  • Shin-ichi Ishikawa, Naoyasu Motomura, Yasuo Kawabata, Hidetaka Tanaka, Sakie Shimotsu, Yoko Sato, Thomas H. Ollendick
  • Journal:
    Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy / Volume 40 / Issue 3 / May 2012
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    04 January 2012, pp. 271-285
    Print publication:
    May 2012

  • Background: Thirty-three Japanese children and adolescents diagnosed with an anxiety disorder participated in individual or group Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) that was modelled after evidence-based intervention programs developed in Western countries. Method: The treatment consisted of: (a) building rapport and education; (b) identifying emotions and recognizing cognitive self-talk; (c) challenging anxious self-talk; (d) developing an anxiety hierarchy and in vivo exposures; and (e) planning for future challenges. Results: Three months following treatment, 20 of the 33 children and adolescents (60.91%) no longer met criteria for their principal anxiety disorders and 16 (48.48%) were free from all anxiety disorders. Self-reported anxiety, depression, and cognitive errors also decreased significantly from pre- to post-treatment and these gains were maintained at 3-month follow-up. For the most part, similar outcomes were found in both the group and individual formats of CBT. Conclusions: This study provides preliminary support for the transportability of CBT in both an individual and group format to Japan.