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There is now convincing evidence that children and adolescents can develop various forms of depressive disorders (e.g., Kovacs, Feinberg, Crouse-Novak, Paulauskas, Polluck, & Finkelstein, 1984; Ryan et al., 1987), although there is still some debate concerning whether or not there is variation in the expression of depressive symptomatology over the course of development (e.g., Carlson & Garber, 1986; Digdon & Gotlib, 1985; Weiss & Garber, 1989). The rates of diagnosable depressive disorders among children in the community range between 2 and 10 percent depending upon the age of the children considered (e.g., preschoolers versus adolescents) (Kashani, Ray, & Carlson, 1984; Kashani et al., 1983; Kashani & Simonds, 1979), and the rates of syndrome depression are even higher (between 15 and 20 percent), depending upon the criterion measure used (Kashani et al., 1983). Depression in children and adolescents is often associated with problems in academic (Fauber, Forehand, Long, Burke, & Faust, 1987; Tesiny, Lefkowitz, & Gordon, 1980) and social functioning (e.g., Altman & Gotlib, 1988; Faust, Baum, & Forehand, 1985; Puig-Antich, Lukens, Davies, Goetz, Brennan-Quattrock, & Todak, 1985), and it also may be accompanied by suicidal ideation and attempts (Brent et al., 1988;Carlson & Cantwell, 1982; Shaffer, 1986). Finally, there is increasing evidence from follow-up studies that individuals who had experienced depression during childhood or adolescence are very likely to have episodes of depression and associated dysfunction in the future (Garber, Kriss, Koch, & Lindholm, 1988; King & Pittman, 1969; Kovacs et al., 1984; Strober & Carlson, 1982). Thus, this growing literature suggests that childhood and adolescent depression is a topic of considerable clinical concern.
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