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Assessment of Childhood Depression
Author(s) -
Chrisman Allan,
Egger Helen,
Compton Scott N.,
Curry John,
Goldston David B.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
child and adolescent mental health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1475-3588
pISSN - 1475-357X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-3588.2006.00395.x
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , psychiatry , childhood depression , medicine , depressive symptoms , psychology , pediatrics , clinical psychology , anxiety , macroeconomics , economics
Background: Depression as a disorder in childhood began to be increasingly recognised in the 1970s. Epidemiologic community and clinic‐based studies have characterised the prevalence, clinical course, and complications of this illness throughout childhood and adolescence into adulthood. This paper reviews two instruments for assessing depression in prepubertal children – the Dominic Interactive and The Preschool Age Psychiatric Assessment. Both instruments are useful in screening for psychiatric disorders and reliably identifying the presence of depressive symptoms in young children.