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Childhood and Adolescent Depression

II: Research in Clinical Populations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Adrian Angold
Adrian Angold*
Affiliation:
MRC Child Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF
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Abstract

The tremendous increase in interest in childhood and adolescent depression that has occurred since the early 1970s has resulted in a large and contradictory literature. Development of the concept of childhood depression, and the many clinical studies of depression and its concomitants, both psychosocial and biological, are critically reviewed. A number of methodological and theoretical problems are discussed.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 153 , Issue 4 , October 1988 , pp. 476 - 492
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988 

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