Rates of depression and anxiety among young people in America have been increasing steadily for the past fifty to seventy years. Today five to eight times as many high school and college students meet the criteria for diagnosis of major depression and/or an anxiety disorder as was true half a century or more ago. This increased psychopathology is not the result of changed diagnostic criteria; it
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October 11, 2009
Continuation Treatment and Relapse Prevention in Pediatric Depression
The prevalence of depression in children and adolescents ranges from 2% to 8% in the general population, which indicates that depression in this population is a major public health concern.1-3 This is especially apparent when rates of depression are compared with other serious medical conditions in childhood, such as diabetes, which has a prevalence of 0.18%.4 The burden of depressive illness-inc
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May 5, 2009
Stressful events and adolescent depression: A test of the cognitive diathesis-stress generation theory
For decades depression researchers have identified a number of stressful events that are associated with the onset of depression in children and adolescents. Researchers have shown that the experience of specific events, as well as exposure to chronic stress, can lead to the development of depression. But as we know, most people who experience stressful events do not develop clinical depression.
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