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John F. Curry

Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry
Box 3527 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
2608 Erwin Road Lakeview Pavi, Durham, NC 27705

Featured Works


Cognitive-behavioral intervention for depressed, substance-abusing adolescents: development and pilot testing.

Journal article J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry · June 2003 Featured Publication OBJECTIVES: To develop a cognitive-behavioral treatment for depressed, substance-abusing adolescents, determine its feasibility, and test its association with symptomatic improvement. METHOD: Based on the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral interventions for ... Full text Link to item Cite

Specific psychotherapies for childhood and adolescent depression.

Journal article Biol Psychiatry · June 15, 2001 Featured Publication Specific psychotherapies for childhood or adolescent depression have been tested against control or comparative conditions. In school-age children with elevated depressive symptoms, cognitive behavioral therapies (CBT) administered in school settings have ... Full text Link to item Cite

Predicting the outcome of treatment.

Journal article J Abnorm Child Psychol · February 1998 Featured Publication The clinical question--"Which treatment(s) for which patients with what set of subgrouping characteristics working by what mechanism(s)?"--rests at the heart of differential therapeutics. Experimentally, this question reduces to a test of how well we can p ... Full text Link to item Cite

Attributional style in clinically depressed and conduct disordered adolescents.

Journal article J Consult Clin Psychol · February 1990 Featured Publication We tested the reformulated learned helplessness theory of depression with adolescent inpatients (N = 63) who were diagnosed by Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III; American Psychiatric Association, 1980) criteria as depressed, or ... Full text Link to item Cite