Childhood Depression

Childhood Severe Mental Illness
by Rethink
It is easy for parents to identify their child's physical needs: nutriticous food, warm clothes when it's cold, bedtime at a reasonable hour. However, a child's mental and emotional needs may not be as obvious. The basics for a child's good mental health

What Is Childhood Depression, Really?
Raising Depression-Free Children : A Parent's Guide to Prevention and Early Intervention
by Kathleen Panula Hockey
Thirty years ago, it was common belief that only the most mentally disordered children experienced depression. This perception changed some in the 1980s. However, the greatest theoretical shift occurred in the mid-1990s with advances in brain imaging

Signs and Symptoms of Depression in Children
Raising Depression-Free Children : A Parent's Guide to Prevention and Early Intervention
by Kathleen Panula Hockey
Diagnosing children with clinical depression can be a difficult task for physicians and mental health professionals. Part of the process is to gather information from parents, teachers, and if possible, friends.

Diagnosis and Treatment
The Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood's Most Misunderstood Disorder
by Demitri F. Papolos, M.D., Janice Papolos
In 1992 Tomie Burke, a young mother in Pullman, Washington, developed a listserv (called BPParents) for parents of children with bipolar disorder. She was motivated to do so because when her six-year-old son first began experiencing the baffling

Diagnosis: Depression
by Harold S. Koplewicz, M.D.
One of the nation's most distinguished child and adolescent psychiatrists shows parents the warning signs, risk factors, and key symptoms that offer important clues about depression. He also illustrates a broad range of treatment options including SSRI

Chapter 1
Acquainted with the Night : A Parent's Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children
by Paul Raeburn
It is the spring of 1996, after Alex's first hospitalization. He is 11 years old and in the fifth grade. He has left the hospital with no diagnosis. No one has told us what treatment he needs, or how we should proceed.

Children and Antidepressants
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Experts give advice on the safe use of antidepressants in children. Concerns about a possible risk of suicidality in children taking antidepressants emerged from an FDA analysis of a May 2003 report on pediatric studies of the antidepressant drug Paxil

How To Tell if Your Child Is Depressed
by SAMHSA
Recent studies show that, at any given time, as many as 1 in every 33 children may suffer from depression. The rate of depression among adolescents is closer to that of depression in adults, and may be as high as one in eight.

Causes of Depression
by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Women experience depression about twice as often as men. Many hormonal factors may contribute to the increased rate of depression in women particularly such factors as menstrual cycle changes, pregnancy, miscarriage, postpartum period, pre-menopause.

Childhood Depression Awareness Day May 6
by SAMHSA
Childhood Depression Awareness Day is an annual observance that brings attention to a childhood mental illness that is becoming increasingly more common. The National Mental Health Association and its affiliates have observed Childhood Depression Awarenes