Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Historical aspects of mood and its disorders in young people
- 2 The development of emotional intelligence
- 3 Developmental precursors of depression: the child and the social environment
- 4 Physiological processes and the development of childhood and adolescent depression
- 5 Childhood depression: clinical phenomenology and classification
- 6 The epidemiology of depression in children and adolescents
- 7 Family–genetic aspects of juvenile affective disorders
- 8 Life events: their nature and effects
- 9 Adolescent depression: neuroendocrine aspects
- 10 Suicidal behaviour in adolescents
- 11 Psychopharmacology of depressive states in childhood and adolescence
- 12 The psychotherapeutic management of major depressive and dysthymic disorders in childhood and adolescence: issues and prospects
- 13 Natural history of mood disorders in children and adolescents
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Historical aspects of mood and its disorders in young people
- 2 The development of emotional intelligence
- 3 Developmental precursors of depression: the child and the social environment
- 4 Physiological processes and the development of childhood and adolescent depression
- 5 Childhood depression: clinical phenomenology and classification
- 6 The epidemiology of depression in children and adolescents
- 7 Family–genetic aspects of juvenile affective disorders
- 8 Life events: their nature and effects
- 9 Adolescent depression: neuroendocrine aspects
- 10 Suicidal behaviour in adolescents
- 11 Psychopharmacology of depressive states in childhood and adolescence
- 12 The psychotherapeutic management of major depressive and dysthymic disorders in childhood and adolescence: issues and prospects
- 13 Natural history of mood disorders in children and adolescents
- Index
Summary
This, the second edition of The depressed child and adolescent, incorporates the latest clinical and research findings.
The resurgence of interest in emotion psychology is addressed in chapters dealing with the development of affect regulation and evaluation of self and others.
A major recent advance is the discovery that comorbid disorders at presentation and over the life span are of crucial importance for delineating depressive subtypes. A precise clinical characterization results in the development of more homogeneous groupings of depressive disorders that will improve the search for genetic as well as environmental aetiologies and enhance the specificity of neuroimaging studies.
Since the first edition, a number of treatment studies have been published in psychological therapies, and psychopharmacology has also established a scientific basis for the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) medication. These findings remain focused on adolescents, with much still needing to be determined regarding the treatment of depression in prepubertal children. There is an increased understanding that there are aetiological pathways that involve much greater interplay between brain, mind and physiological and social environments than considered hitherto.
Whilst much remains to be done, including determining the processes and mechanisms by which genes exert their effects on the environment, it seemed timely to record the progress and achievements that have been made in the last five years by scientists and clinicians alike.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Depressed Child and Adolescent , pp. xiii - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001