TOPIC: Childhood and Adolescent Depression

The following reflects our most recent response for technical assistance related to this topic. This list represents a sample of information to get you started and is not meant to be exhaustive.
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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Continuing Education

• Addressing Barriers to Learning: New Directions for Mental Health in Schools

Introductory Packet

• Assessing to Address Barriers to Learning
• Affect and Mood Problems related to School Aged Youth

Newsletter

• Youth Suicide/Depression/Violence (Summer, '99)

Quick Training Aid

• Suicide Prevention
• School Interventions to Prevent and Respond to Adolescent Affect and Mood Problems

Practice Notes

• Grief and Loss
• When a Student Seems Dangerous to Self or Others
• Countering the Over-Pathologizing of Students' Feelings & Behavior: A Growing Concern Related to MH in Schools

Resource Aid Packets

• Screening/Assessing Students: Indicators and Tools
• Student Psychotropic Medication: The School's Role
• School Helping Students Deal With Loss

Policy & Program Reports & Briefs

• Suicide Prevention in Schools

General Depression

• Behaviors May Indicate Risk of Adolescent Depression
• Brighter Futures: Improvements in Depression Care Pay for Themselves
• Child and Adolescent Depression and Anxiety tool Kit, Center for Children with Special Needs
• Cost-effectiveness of an intervention to prevent depression in at-risk teens
• The Depressed Child
• Depression
• Depression and the Initiation of Alcohol and Other Drug Use among Youths Aged 12 to 17 (from the National Survey on Drug Use and health)
• Depression in Children and Adolescents
• Difference in Early Childhood Risk Factors for Juvenile- and Adult-onset Depression
• Emergency Treatment of Young People Following Deliberate Self-harm (2005) M. Olfson, et al, Archives of General Psychiatry, 62:1122-1128.
• FDA Public Health Advisory on Antidepressant Medications
• General and Specific Childhood Risk Factors for Depression and Drug Disorders by Early Adulthood
• The Hopelessness Theory of Depression: A Test of the Diathesis--Stress and Causal Mediation Components in Third and Seventh Grade Children [1].(Statistical Data Included)
• Initiative for decreasing disparities in depression, National Center for Cultural Competence
• Major depressive episodes among youths aged 12 to 17 in the United States: 2004-2006
• Major Depression in Children and Adolescents
• Mental Health, Education, and Social role outcomes of Adolescents with Depression
• Mood Disorders (including Bipolar) (Schoolbehavior.com)
• National Trends in Outpatient Treatment of Depression (pdf document)
• Negative Behavior Can be a Depression Smokescreen (from NASBHC)
• Obesity, shame and depression in school-aged children: A population-based study
• Prevalence of depression by race/ethnicity: Findings from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III
• QuickStats: Rate of hospitalization for depression among persons aged 5-19 years, by sex- United States, 1990-1992 and 2002-2004. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Review, 55(26) 731.
• Reporting on Suicide: Recommendations for the Media
• Screening for Depression: Recommendations and Rationale
• State estimates of depression, 2004 & 2005
• Teen Homicide, Suicide, and Firearm Death
• Toward Guidelines for Evidence-Based Assessment of Depression in Children and Adolescents, 2005
• "The Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study Team" (2003) Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 42(5), 531-542
• What to do When a Friend is Depressed: A Guide for Students

Bipolar

• A Story of Bipolar Disorder
• "Educator's Guide to Receiving Bipolar Students After Hospitalization"
• Treatment of Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Patients and Families
• Toward an Evidence-Based Assessment of Pediatric Bipolar Disorder, 2005

• Applying the Criteria for Empirically Supported Treatments to Studies of Psychosocial Interventions for Child and Adolescent Depression
• Assessment and Treatment of Depression in Children and Adolescents
• Depression in Childhood
• Handbook of Depression in Children and Adolescents: Ch 24: Suicide and Suicidal Behavior in Children and Adolescents
• Interviewing the Suicidal/Depressed Child
• Practitioners' Corner: Manualized Treatments for Youth Depression: Suggestions for Practitioners in Managed Care Era
• Promoting Resilience: Helping Young Children and Parents Affected by Substance Abuse, Domestic Violence and Depression in the Context of Welfare Reform
• Should we Screen for Depression? Caveats and Potential Pitfalls
• Treating Depression in Children and Adolescents

• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Bipolar Disorder (NIMH)
• The Center for Mental Health Services
• The Child & Adolescent Bipolar Foundation
• Depression (NIMH)
• International Foundation for Research and Education on Depression
• Mental Health America
• The National Association of School Psychologists
• National Foundation for Depressive Illnesses
• SAVE: Suicide Awareness
• Suicide Prevention Resource Center
• Teens-Depression and Suicide Prevention

• A review of pharmacotherapy of major depression in children and adolescents. Ambrosini, Paul J. Psychiatric Services. 2000 May. 51 (5): p. 627-633.
• A developmental psychopathology perspective on the cognitive components of child and adolescent depression.  Kaslow, Nadine J.; Adamson, Lauren B.; Collins, Marietta H. In: Arnold J. Sameroff, Ed; Michael Lewis, Ed; et al. Handbook of developmental psychopathology (2nd ed.). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: New York, NY, US, 2000. p. 491-510 of xxxi, 813pp.
• Assessment and treatment of adolescent depression and suicidality. Stanard, Rebecca; Powell, Ed . Journal of Mental Health Counseling. 2000 Jul. 22 (3): p. 204-217.
• Childhood and adolescent predictors of major depression in the transition to adulthood. Reinherz, H.Z. et al. (2003). the American Journal of Psychiatry December 2003 160:2141-2147
• Development and depression.  Garber, Judy. In: Arnold J. Sameroff, Ed; Michael Lewis, Ed; et al. Handbook of developmental psychopathology (2nd ed.).. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: New York, NY, US, 2000. p. 467-490 of xxxi, 813pp.
• Evidence-Based Psychosocial Treatments for Child and Adolescent Depression. Corinne David-Ferdon and Nadine J. Kaslow.(2008). Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Vol 37, No. 1
• Preventing depression: A review of cognitive-behavioral and family interventions. Gillham, Jane E.; Shatte, Andrew J.; Freres, Derek R. Applied & Preventive Psychology. 2000 Spr. 9 (2): p. 63-88.
• Scale-based protocols for the detection and management of depression. Lynch, S. Clarkson, P. Blenkiron, P. & Fraser, J. (2003). LibraPharm, Primary Care Psychiatry, 8(3):77084
• Should we screen for depression? Caveats and potential pitfalls. Coyne, J.C. et al. (2002). Applied & Preventive Psychology, 9, 101-121
• Social skills deficits associated with depression. Segrin, Chris. Clinical Psychology Review. 2000      Apr. 20 (3): p. 379-403.
• The treatment for adolescents with depression study team. (2003). Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 42(5), 531-542.
• Treating adolescent depression: A review of intervention approaches. Finn, Cindy A. International Journal of Adolescence & Youth. A B Academic Publishers: United Kingdom, 2000. 8 (4): p. 253-269.

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