— Overview
This is one CEBT case, not a trial. From October to November 2025, a 13-year-old middle-school boy met for ten weekly sessions, 40 minutes with the client and 10 minutes with a parent, face to face, after being known through an acquaintance. He is the first of two sons, with a brother of 10, lives with his parents, and does not attend a hagwon. An ADHD diagnosis was made at age 8, and medication has continued; play therapy ran from age 4 until just before middle school.
The main complaint was anger with friends: he wanted friends but felt avoided, and there was mild depression. Parents reported inflexible thinking and behavior that seemed younger than his age. After the ten sessions, the account says, cognition moved toward more adaptive thought, depression and anger decreased, and he could recognize his own emotional changes more specifically than before. It is a single case, and later work, the account says, should broaden the subjects.
No effect sizes are given, and none are invented here.
— Contents and key concepts
Ten weeks, one middle-school student
The case ran from October to November 2025, in ten weekly face-to-face sessions. Each meeting was 50 minutes: 40 with the client, 10 with a parent. The client was a 13-year-old middle-school boy, known through an acquaintance. He is the first of two sons, with a brother of 10, lives with his parents, and does not attend a hagwon. An ADHD diagnosis was made at age 8, and medication has continued. Play therapy had run from age 4 until just before middle school.
The main complaint was anger with friends. He wanted friends, but felt avoided, and there was mild depression. Parents reported inflexible thinking, and behavior that seemed younger than his age. Family tension around a curfew, and a peer conflict after which he cried and decided not to associate with that friend, are part of what he brought to the sessions. Those details stay modest here. A header year of 2015 that appears in some surrounding text is not used as the date of this case; the sessions themselves are dated October to November 2025.
Methods, stated results, and a single-case limit
The methods named are self-monitoring, rating the intensity of anger, Socratic questioning, and work on problem-solving and communication: asserting, empathizing, and making a request. Early sessions were for rapport. Later, the client talked more. The father is described as playful, the mother as often angry or oppressive. When speech became scattered and fast, a mid-session intervention was sometimes needed.
The results are stated without scores. After the ten sessions, cognition moved toward more adaptive thought. Depression and anger levels decreased. He could recognize his own emotional changes more specifically than before treatment. No effect sizes are given, and none are invented here. The account itself names the limit: this is a single case, and later work should broaden the subjects and the methods. Dated studies in the background — among them work on CBT by Park in 2015, and later papers through the early 2020s — are left as prior citations, not as the findings of this case.
Sources
- a ten-session CEBT case with a 13-year-old middle-school boy, meeting weekly from October to November 2025, stating that after the intervention cognition moved toward more adaptive thought, depression and anger decreased, and emotional changes could be recognized more specifically, and naming the limit that this is a single case.
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