For some depressed kids, therapy may rival pills. For some depressed kids, therapy may rival pills Cognitive-behavioral therapy may be just as effective as antidepressants for depressed teenagers in more affluent families, a government scientist reported Thursday. But children with severe depression, regardless of family income, appear to need the medication to recover, said Benedetto Vitiello, chief of the child and adolescent psychiatry branch at [...] [World of Psychology]000000comment []