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Prevention of childhood depression: recent findings and future prospects

Beardslee, William R, Gladstone, Tracy R.G·2001·Biological Psychiatry
DOI 10.1016/s0006-3223(01)01126-x
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Traditionally, research on childhood mood disorders has focused on clinical trials and longitudinal course and outcome studies, rather than on prevention. Recently, however, advances in the design, methodology, and evaluation of prevention approaches and progress in understanding what factors predispose children to depression have made possible the development of theoretically driven, empirically justified approaches to the prevention of depression in youngsters who are at high risk, either because of elevated symptom levels or parental mood disorder. In this review, we outline recent empirical findings on risk factors for depression in nonreferred samples of youngsters and also in children of depressed parents. Additionally, we review three trials of preventive interventions for childhood depression that yield promising initial findings. We emphasize the need to understand both risks for depression and factors that protect youngsters at risk from succumbing to depression in guiding the development of prevention programs. We also argue that consideration of prevention of depression requires addressing broader social adversity influences that lead to poor mental health outcomes in children, even beyond the effects of parental mood disorder. We conclude with an emphasis on the importance of a developmental-transactional perspective that highlights opportunities for intervention at different points across the lifespan.

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Authors
Beardslee, W. R., & Gladstone, T. R. G.
Affiliations
Boston Children's Hospital (US)
Corresponding author
Beardslee, William R
ORCID
Venue
Biological Psychiatry
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2001-06
Volume
49
Issue
12
Pages
1101-1110
ISSN
0006-3223 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/s0006-3223(01)01126-x
OpenAlex
W1980816767
Cited by
100
References
70
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 15
FWCI
1.04
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
Locations
  • Biological Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • William T. Grant Foundation
  • National Institutes of Health (RO1 MH48696-02)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Keywords
childhood depression, depression prevention, risk factors, parental depression, children of depressed parents, preventive interventions, social adversity, protective factors
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Adult, Child, Depression, Humans, Parents, Preventive Health Services, Risk Factors

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