Current views on the development of anxiety-depressive disorders in adolescents

Depression is currently one of the most common affective disorders. For many years, child psychiatrists dismissed the idea that depression occurs in childhood. The symptoms of depression were thought to be normal and temporary manifestations inherent in certain stages of childhood development. However, depression is as much of a problem for children and adolescents as it is for adults. It is now known that reduced mood disorder in childhood and adolescence is a frequent, not always recognisable, severe disorder with an ever-increasing prevalence of between 20% and 85%

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