Depression rates are rising and researchers and clinicians now say that depression often begins in childhood. Kathleen P. Hockey is a licensed social worker who has also suffered from depression.

A commonly used screening tool, the Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI), is caregiver-administered and can also be used to track changes in symptoms over time, making it useful for evaluating ...

Ongoing research is examining whether timing of menarche is a causal risk factor for depression in adolescence. Other work focuses on the role of individual factors in childhood (e.g. early ...

Only children, those without any siblings, were 42% more likely to have anxiety and 38% more likely to have depression ...

We no longer stunt our children’s bodies. Yet our new cultural norms stunt their curiosity and competence via excessive adult ...

In a cross-sectional study, about one third of adult survivors of childhood cancer reported clinically significant or high ...

Besides answering questions concerning their exercise habits and perceived health and fitness, the participants also completed the Beck Depression Inventory ... Ten-Year-Old Children The present ...

and the Children Depression Inventory – Second Edition. Shyness was assessed as a temperamental trait characterized by wariness and self-consciousness in social situations. Unsociability ...

Depression is also increasingly common in children. Even in the most severe cases, depression is highly treatable. The condition is often cyclical, and early treatment may prevent or forestall ...

I should have been thrilled to be pregnant; I had wanted to have a child for years. Why did I feel so awful? Prenatal ...

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Unemployment, neurological deficit, and some treatments increase the likelihood adult survivors of childhood cancer retain a fear of recurrence or SMN.