Research Institute of Child Development and Education, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Department of Child Development and Education, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Postbus 15776, 1001 NG, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev. 2023 Sep;26(3):721-726. doi: 10.1007/s10567-023-00442-7. Epub 2023 Jul 5.
Study of individual treatment mechanisms in youth interventions facilitates evidence-based development, selection and implementation of treatment components that are most effective for each individual child. This position paper aims to bring together two important topics from the area of youth intervention research: mediators of treatment outcomes and single-case experimental design methodology. We start by outlining the benefits of studying within-person mechanisms and propose how statistical mediation analysis and single-case methods can be integrated to enable this type of research. Further, we review existing methodology for the study of individual youth treatment mechanisms and provide recommendations for the clinical practice research.
研究青年干预措施中的个体治疗机制有助于基于证据的治疗方法的发展、选择和实施，从而使每个儿童都能获得最有效的治疗。本立场文件旨在汇集青年干预研究领域的两个重要主题：治疗结果的中介因素和单案例实验设计方法。我们首先概述了研究个体机制的好处，并提出了如何整合统计中介分析和单案例方法来实现这种研究。此外，我们还回顾了现有的个体青年治疗机制研究方法，并为临床实践研究提供了建议。
