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Pediatric bipolar disorder and major depression are topics which have received a marked increase in attention by the mental health community in recent years. This group of disorders, when present, is very serious and debilitating. Also, symptoms can wax and wane for many years. Thus, identification and treatment are very important. One of the greatest concerns regarding this mental health condition is misidentification, often through the application of symptoms that do not truly represent pediatric mood disorders . A variety of symptoms have been reported in the literature. A brief review of the behaviors which have been described in the literature to characterize pediatric mood disorders follows. This section is followed by relevant topics in diagnosis and methods used to identify major depression and bipolar disorder.

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Matson, J.L., Burns, C.O. (2018). Assessing Bipolar Disorder and Major Depression. In: Matson, J. (eds) Handbook of Childhood Psychopathology and Developmental Disabilities Assessment . Autism and Child Psychopathology Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93542-3_10

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