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Depression in adolescence raises risk of low academic and employment status
Publication year - 2019
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.30371
Subject(s) - psychosocial , mental health , depression (economics) , psychology , psychiatry , child and adolescent psychiatry , adverse childhood experiences , clinical psychology , medicine , economics , macroeconomics
Adolescents who are depressed have many adverse psychosocial outcomes as adults, which can be long‐term, researchers have found. Their results, published in the January issue of the Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry , show that targeted mental health care should be provided early in life to improve outcomes.