Assessment of Depression in Children and Adolescents by Parents, Teachers, and Peers

Abstract

parents, teachers, and peers play a significant role in the assessment of depression in children and adolescents need for significant others as informants / advantages and disadvantages / assessment by parents [general psychopathology scales, adaptations of self-report, adaptations of peer report] / assessment by teachers [teacher-rated scales] / peer ratings [Peer Nomination Inventory of Depression (PNID)] (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved). (chapter)