Posted by SLS on December 28, 2015, at 12:24:49
In reply to Brain development and CBT, posted by john locke on December 27, 2015, at 8:44:16
> Would psychotherapy treatment for social anxiety like CBT that supposedly "changes the brain" work better before the age of 25 since the brain is still developing during this time and is potentially more malleable?
I agree with Linkadge.
In studies of a mixed population of young children and adolescents, CBT is reported to be less effective for the older subjects. I'm not sure why.
I found these using Google:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/S15374424JCCP3003_13
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/ccp/79/6/806/
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