Open AccessA study of depression, externalizing, and internalizing behaviors among adolescents living in institutional homes
Author(s) -
Archana Vinnakota,
Ravneet Kaur
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of applied and basic medical research/international journal of applied and basic medical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2248-9606
pISSN - 2229-516X
DOI - 10.4103/ijabmr.ijabmr_333_17
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , psychology , clinical psychology , prosocial behavior , descriptive statistics , association (psychology) , psychological intervention , psychiatry , subclinical infection , medicine , statistics , mathematics , economics , psychotherapist , macroeconomics
Adolescence, a psychologically vulnerable stage of life, when coupled with stressful environment such as institutional homes, may result in high psychiatric morbidity. These psychiatric disorders including depression are detrimental to the psychological development in adolescents.