Depression across the Early Life Span

Abstract

concerned with depression throughout the early life span; that is, the infancy, preschool, grade school, and adolescent age ranges among the issues to be discussed are the following: the differentiation between depressive symptoms; a depressive syndrome and a depressive disorder; the clinical picture and subtypes of depressive disorders across the early life span; developmental issues of the assessment of the depressive syndrome from infancy through adolescence; etiologic theories of depression; and links between depression in infancy, preschool, grade school, and adult life (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)