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Cognitive depression prevention for at‐risk teens found effective
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30079
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , intervention (counseling) , psychology , cognitive impairment , cognition , history of depression , clinical psychology , functional impairment , psychiatry , medicine , economics , macroeconomics
Can adolescent depression be prevented? Possibly, given the fact that if adolescents' parents have a history of depression, they are at greater risk for the disorder — and for functional impairment. That means these teens can be selectively targeted for an intervention.