This developmental study provides some normative data on the
distribution of depressive symptoms in 210 children and adolescents in
three different age groups (8, 12, and 17 years) from a nonclinically
referred sample. The Child Assessment Schedule and other instruments were
used. Studying depression from a dimensional point of view, the authors
found withdrawal, pessimism, horrible dreams, and suicidal ideation and
tendency in the different age groups to be closely related to depressive
symptoms.Abstract Teaser