Teens Coping With Parental Military Deployment

Inclusion Criteria

• •Adolescents must: 1) be 13-17 years old; 2) be English speaking; 3) provide adolescent assent; 4) have parental consent and a parent/legal guardian available to participate in the intervention protocol; 5) have a parent who is deployed or returned from a deployment within the last year; and 6) report current sub-clinical or clinical levels of depression, anxiety, or oppositional behavior. In order to meet the symptom criterion, adolescents must receive a T score of ≥ 65 on the affective problems, anxiety problems, and/or oppositional defiant problems on the Youth Self-Report or the Child Behavior Checklist.