Phenomenology and Epidemiology of Mood Disorders in Children and Adolescents

Abstract

[focuses] on the phenomenology and epidemiology of mood disorders in children and adolescents historical attitudes / assumption of equivalence of the phenomenology of mood disorders across the life span / phenomenology of mood disorders in diagnostic criteria: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV (DSM-IV) epidemiology of depression and depressive disorders / epidemiology of mania and bipolar disorders / issue of comorbidity / psychopharmacological treatment (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)