DEPRESSION IN CHILDHOOD

摘要: It is my intention in this paper to examine some of the literature which bears upon nature depression childhood, that period life between infancy and adolescence includes neither. No new facts are presented, for manuscript based neither on empirical research nor clinical study. The essential lack definition "childhood depression" focus attention, if indeed such a disorder exists. In interest clarity, term "depression," when used unqualified form, refers those behavioral manifestations, inferred or reported affects, dynamics typically applied adult psychopathology.' Hence, depression," as below, differs from "depression" only with respect age occurrence. This convention one convenience does not imply childhood has fact been observed. A survey yields two indisputable facts. First, disorders represent it emulate rarely discussed. recent series articles In-