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Depression across the Early Life Span

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This chapter is concerned with depression throughout the early life span; that is, the infancy, preschool, grade school, and adolescent age ranges. Among the issues to be discussed are the following: the differentiation between depressive symptoms; a depressive syndrome and a depressive disorder; the clinical picture and subtypes of depressive disorders across the early life span; developmental issues of the assessment of the depressive syndrome from infancy through adolescence; etiologic theories of depression; and links between depression in infancy, preschool, grade school, and adult life. Finally, the chapter will conclude with some directions for future research in this area.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatrie Institute, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 90024, USA

    Dennis P. Cantwell

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Cantwell, D.P. (1990). Depression across the Early Life Span. In: Lewis, M., Miller, S.M. (eds) Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7142-1_23

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