Depression

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    JCPP Editorial: Volume 58, Issue 07, July 2017

    “The conundrums of human development – implications for the study of child and adolescent disorder” by Alice M. Gregory

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    CAMH Editorial: Volume 22, Issue 2, May 2017

    “Pharmacotherapy and adolescent depression – an important treatment option” by Bernadka Durbicka & David Brent.

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    CAMH – Volume 22, Issue 2, May 2017 – Editorial: Pharmacotherapy and adolescent depression – an important treatment option

    Bernadka Dubricka, David Brent

    Abstract
    Over the past decade, rates of depression and of suicide in adolescents have been increasing (Collishaw, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 56, 2015, 370; Bor et al., The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 48, 2014, 606). At the same time, there is some evidence that rates of diagnosis and, in the US at least, referral for depression in adolescents has been declining (Libby et al., Archives of General Psychiatry, 66, 2009, 633; John et al., Psychological Medicine, 46, 2016, 3315).

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    CAMH – Volume 22, Issue 2, May 2017

    Martino Belvederi Murri, Gabriella Ferrigno, Simona Penati, Caterina Muzio, Giulia Piccinini, Marco Innamorati, Federica Ricci, Maurizio Pompili and Mario Amore

    Background
    Increasing evidence supports that mentalization deficits may have a role in the genesis of young age depression; however, few studies examined this issue in clinical populations.

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