'… this extensive multi-authored text is a 'state-of-the art' exploration of child and adolescent depression, and as such, is required reading for clinicians and researchers in the area.' Florence Levy, Psychological Medicine

In this thoroughly revised and updated edition an international, interdisciplinary team of mental health experts draw together more recent research in the psychopathology of depression in young people. Combining theory and practice, the psychological, neurochemical and genetic causes are discussed and an account of the clinical characteristics and frequency of the condition is given. The key questions are fully addressed: the importance of life events and difficulties in the onset and continuation of depression; the efficacy of current psychological therapies and the role of medication; how depressed young people progress into adult life, and how depression arises and the effects it may exert on brain and behaviour during this crucial developmental period. This book will appeal to child psychiatrists and psychologists, developmental psychologists, neuroscientists and mental health professionals in clinical services.

List of contributors
Preface Ian Goodyer
1. Historical aspects of mood and its disorders in young people William Ll. Parry-Jones
2. The development of emotional intelligence Mark Meerum Terwogt and Hedy Stegge
3. Developmental precursors of depression: the child and the social environment Elizabeth McCauley, Karen Pavlidis and Kim Kendall
4. Physiological processes and the development of childhood and adolescent depression Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Jessica J. Auth, Anne C. Petersen and Bruce E. Compas
5. Childhood depression: clinical phenomenology and classification Israel Kolvin and Hartwin Sadowski
6. The epidemiology of depression in children and adolescents Adrian Angold and Elizabeth J. Costello
7. Family-genetic aspects of juvenile affective disorders Michael Strober
8. Life events: their nature and effects Ian M. Goodyer
9. Adolescent depression: neuroendocrine aspects Stephen Sokolov and Stan Kutcher
10. Suicidal behaviour in adolescents Erik Jan de Wilde, Ineke C. W. M. Kienhorst and René F. W. Diekstra
11. Psychopharmacology of depressive states in childhood and adolescence Eberhard Schulz and Helmut Remschmidt
12. The psychotherapeutic management of major depressive and dysthymic disorders in childhood and adolescence: issues and prospects Maria Kovacs and Joel T. Sherrill
13. Natural history of mood disorders in children and adolescents Richard Harrington and Bernadka Dubicka
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Subject Areas: Paediatric medicine [MJW]