Sentences with phrase «whether adolescent depression»

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For most of the participants, mid-life depression was assessed using a single question on a single questionnaire, and the researchers had no information on whether an individual had been depressed as a young adult or adolescent.

The original position taken in structural family therapy was that in enmeshed families, whether it's a toddler testing out the safety of a three - metre distance from her mother's knees early in the family life cycle, or an adolescent daughter struggling later with the depression of a rejected love affair, the capacity of each to tolerate anxiety or despair may be threatened.

It is difficult to compare our findings with studies of general population youth because rates vary widely, depending on the sample, the method, the source of data (participant or collaterals), and whether functional impairment was required for diagnosis.50 Despite these differences, our overall rates are substantially higher than the median rate reported in a major review article (15 %) 50 and other more recent investigations: the Great Smoky Mountains Study (20.3 %), 56 the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development (142 cases per 1000 persons), 57 the Methods for the Epidemiology of Child and Adolescent Mental Disorders (6.1 %), 32 and the Miami — Dade County Public School Study (38 %).58 We are especially concerned about the high rates of depression and dysthymia among detained youth (17.2 % of males, 26.3 % of females), which are also higher than general population rates.51,56 - 61 Depressive disorders are difficult to detect (and treat) in the chaos of the corrections milieu.

The second study is examining whether the addition of an exercise component to a CBT protocol will improve depression outcomes in overweight adolescents treated with CBT.

Whether you are struggling with relationship issues, anxiety, depression, or a difficult life transition, I have a wide range of experience helping individuals, adolescents, couples and families dealing with life's challenging issues.»

Based on data provided by the 90,000 adolescents in the in - school survey of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this paper investigates whether adolescents who claim mixed ancestry report more adjustment problems (higher levels of depression, substance use, health problems) than their peers who claim a single ancestry.

However, study results are conflicting as to the relative rates of depression in prepubertal boys and girls, and it is not clear whether the rates in adolescent boys rise, fall, or remain steady.