Mix and MATCH: The use of a Modular Approach for Youth Psychotherapy in Routine Clinical Care and Associations with Outcomes
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATION
The Modular Approach to Therapy for Children (MATCH) consists of individual evidence-based components (modules) that clinicians can flexibly select to target a range of emotional and behavioral symptoms in the problem areas of anxiety, depression, and conduct problems.
This study, co-authored by Jason Lang, PhD, and Phyllis Lee of Eastern Connecticut State University, explores how the number, order, and types of modules used in the MATCH model may impact treatment outcomes.
Results indicated a positive association between the number of flowchart modules used to address the sampled youth’s primary problem and clinician-rated improvement, as measured by the Clinical Global Impressions–Improvement (CGI-I).
In addition, youths with primary depression improved more when they received more modules from the anxiety flowchart, and youths with primary conduct problems improved more when they received more modules from the depression flowchart, based on the CGI-I at the last timepoint.
