EMPOWER Youth

EMPOWER Youth

The Harvard Medical School Mental Health For All Lab and the Harvard University Lab for Youth Mental Health developed EMPOWER Youth, a transdiagnostic stepped-care intervention for adolescents with emotional problems. 

EMPOWER Youth was developed from over two decades of research in evidence-based treatments. This is a stepped-care approach, featuring Quick Calming and Problem Solving, which equips non-specialist providers to address youth internalizing problems.

Mental Health For All Lab

EMPOWER Youth Trailer

EMPOWER Youth Testimonials

Implementation Resources

Live Role-Play Practice Scenarios

Role-Play Recordings

Rate Provider Skills

 

Implementation Guide

References

Fitzpatrick, O. M., Cho, E., Venturo-Conerly, K. E., Ugueto, A. M., Ng, M. Y., & Weisz, J. R. (2023). Empirically supported principles of change in youth psychotherapy: Exploring codability, frequency of use, and meta-analytic findings. Clinical Psychological Science, 11(2), 326–344. https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026221120230

 

Patel, V., Naslund, J. A., Wood, S., Patel, A., Chauvin, J. J., Agrawal, R., Bhan, A., Joshi, U., Amara, M., Kohrt, B. A., Singla, D. R., & Fairburn, C. G. (2022). EMPOWER: Toward the global dissemination of psychosocial interventions. Focus, 20(3), 301–306. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.focus.20220042

 

Hill, E. K., Bond, L., Weisz, J. R., & Patel, V. (2025). Addressing the adolescent mental health-care gap in the United States. The Journal of Adolescent Health: Official Publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 77(6), 1014–1016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2025.08.007

 

Hill, E. K., Bond, L., Carmio, N., Hatkevich, C. E., Nag, D., Romero, S. A., Schwartz, K. T. G., Sternberg, A., Tandon, T., Vergara, C., Young, J. F., McLaughlin, K. A., Weisz, J. R., & Patel, V. (2026). The design of a scalable intervention for adolescents with internalizing problems. SSM - Mental Health, 9, 100624. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2026.100624

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