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Alignment Between Parents and Clients
At every level of care, variability in distress scores between parents and clients decreased over time. This indicates improvements in communication and attunement (putting empathy in action) between child and parent, and that families are practicing crucial communication strategies after treatment, such as vulnerability, empathy, and validation. Taken together, results suggest treatment helps parents understand the severity and intensity of their children’s distress. They’re ultimately poised to better attune to their preteens, teens, and young adults’ needs.
Importantly, parents reported communication as their most frequent MTP problem. Decreased variability between their perception of their children’s distress and self-reported distress suggests that they not only improved their communication skills with their preteens, teens, and young adults but also have a greater awareness of their children’s overall social-emotional health after treatment.
After-Treatment Progress
Post-discharge results were especially compelling. Dramatic decreases in distress, anxiety, and depression symptoms were reported at three and six months after treatment. Clients with high levels of intense and frequent symptoms were included in these data sets. This suggests that those in need of greater mental health support can and do benefit from the Embark treatment approach over time.
Improvements in Well-Being, Not Just Symptoms
Clients also reported improvements in well-being. Well-being is associated with optimism, life and work satisfaction, and resilience7,8. Accordingly, Embark sees the purpose of therapy to be more than symptom reduction. We aim to help preteens, teens, and young adults find meaning and purpose in their lives and pursue that purpose with excitement. This helps clients build relapse resistance, engage in healthy relationships, and create joy.
At every level of care, preteens, teens, and young adults reported double-digit percentage-point increases in well-being scores to go along with the significant reduction in anxiety and depression. These scores indicate improvement toward Embark’s big hairy audacious goal to lead the way in driving teen and young adult anxiety, depression, and suicide to all-time lows by 2028.
Summary: We attribute our clients’ significant progress in symptom reduction and increased well-being to the lasting impact of Embark’s clinical approach, our expert clinicians and providers who guide clients through treatment, and, most importantly, our clients and families’ dedication to the healing process.
24 Measuring Lasting Change: The Embark Behavioral Health Annual Outcomes Report