Medical Xpress March 24, 2025
A depression prevention program that has helped white youth wasn’t effective for Black youth, raising concerns about the need for more research to help racially diverse groups, according to new research published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
“I was very surprised that we couldn’t help Black youth as much as white youth, and we don’t know why there was such a profound difference in the outcomes,” said lead researcher Patrick Pössel, Dr. rer. soc., a professor of counseling psychology at the University of Louisville.
Pössel and some colleagues in Germany developed the LARS&LISA depression prevention program about 25 years ago, which was implemented successfully in schools in Germany and later in Tennessee.
The study included 425 freshman...
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