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Pyschology
Adolescent Depression
Depression is a disease that afflicts the human psyche in such a way that the afflicted tend to act and react abnormally toward others and themselves. Adolescent depression is greatly under diagnosed, and leads to serious difficulties in school, and personal adjustment.
The reason why depression is often overlooked in children is because children are not always able to express how they feel. ... Learning disabilities or conduct disorder can put a child in greater risk of depression. ... Until the last decade, the commonly held view has been that depression affected persons in their middle years, and did not occur in childhood or adolescence. ... Due to systematic followup studies of children under treatment, and depressed parents, the onset of depression occurs during adolescence, and must be treated during adolescence.
Depression has a wide range of symptoms, from being sad or mad to withdrawal from others, or lashing out at others. Symptoms of youth depression are often masked. ... Other emotional problems make it hard to recognize depression in a child, but usually overlap with depression. ... Depression and learning disabilities have a strong link to each other. If the learning problem is not accurately detected, it snowballs up, and these negative experiences lead to emotional problems for the child thus, depression. ... Other underlying symptoms of depression are eating disorders, hyperactivity, and substance abuse. ... The best hope to prevent depression is to teach resilience training in schools. ... In addition, they can be alert to the warning signs of depression, and take remedial action. ... Family dynamics also contribute to depression in a child, such as physical or emotional abuse, substance abuse, criticism, idealizing, not enough reaction to the child’s actions, and depressed parents themselves. ... No one can prevent these events from happening, but what parents can do to protect their children from depression is to raise them to be resilient. ...
Good communication between adolescents’ and parents’ is the key factor to the prevention of depression later on in a child’s life. ... Good communication between kids and parents also prevents children from feeling that they have to keep troubling emotions bottled up inside which can make a child feel overwhelmed, and vulnerable to depression. ... Allowing children to experience frustrations, upsets, ad disappointments gives them important practice in coping with life’s may challenges, and helps children build a healthy, natural resistance to emotional difficulties like depression.
Approximate Word count = 1938
Approximate Pages = 7.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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