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Skills-Based Group Intervention for Adolescent Girls With Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Family Psychiatry and Psychology Associates

Ronald L. Blount

University of Georgia, rlblount{at}uga.edu

Jeffery D. Lewis

Children's Center for Digestive Healthcare, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Laura E. Simons

Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School

Megan L. McCormick

University of Georgia

In this study we describe the responses of six adolescent girls with inflammatory bowel disease and their parents to a 10-session, manualized intervention program focusing on decreasing pain and functional disability in adolescents with a chronic illness, and increasing coping and sense of competency for their parents. Measures of adolescent physical symptoms and parenting sense of competence and coping were collected at pretreatment, post-treatment, and 6-month follow-up. Improvements were observed post-treatment and at 6 month follow-up on measures of adolescents’ pain and functional disability, as well as parents’ sense of competency and use of adaptive coping strategies.The potential effectiveness of this type of program and implications for its use are discussed.

Key Words: pediatric • inflammatory bowel disease • skills training • coping • parents • treatment • adolescents

Clinical Case Studies, Vol. 8, No. 5, 355-365 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1534650109342745


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