Am J Psychiatry 1989; 146:871-875
Copyright © 1989 by American Psychiatric Association
Developmental perspectives in child and adolescent depressive symptoms in a community sample
JH Kashani, TK Rosenberg and JC Reid
Department of Psychiatry, University of Missouri-Columbia 65201.
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.
