Prevention of Depression in Children and Adolescents

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The articles included in this supplement to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine1 Garber J. Depression in children and adolescents: linking risk research and prevention. Am J Prev Med 2006;31(6S1):S104–25. Google Scholar , 2 Avenevoli S, Merikangas KR. Implications of high-risk family studies for the prevention of depression. Am J Prev Med 2006;31(6S1):S126–35. Google Scholar , 3 Flannery-Schroeder EC. Reducing anxiety to prevent depression. Am J Prev Med 2006;31(6S1):S136–42. Google Scholar , 4 Lynch FL, Clarke GN. Estimating the economic burden of depression in children and adolescents. Am J Prev Med 2006;31(6S1):S143–51. Google Scholar , 5 Schmiege SJ, Khoo ST, Sandler IN, Ayers TS, Wolchik SA. Symptoms of internalizing and externalizing problems: modeling recovery curves after the death of a parent. Am J Prev Med 2006;31(6S1):S152–60. Google Scholar , 6 Rao U. Links between depression and substance abuse in adolescents: neurobiological mechanisms. Am J Prev Med 2006;31(6S1):S161–74. Google Scholar , 7 O’Connor TG, Cameron JL. Translating research findings on early experience to prevention: animal and human evidence on early attachment relationships. Am J Prev Med 2006;31(6S1):S175–81. Google Scholar were developed from presentations made at a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)–supported meeting entitled: Workshop on the Prevention of Depression in Children and Adolescents, held in June 2004. NIMH, in collaboration with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), sponsored this meeting to consider extant research on prevention of depression in children and adolescents, and to discuss new opportunities for expanding the empirical base for preventive interventions. In contrast to the state of the science on prevention of aggression and externalizing behaviors in youth, 8 Barlow J. Parsons J. Group-based parent-training programmes for improving emotional and behavioural adjustment in 0–3 year old children. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2003; PubMed Google Scholar , 9 Durlak J.A. Wells A.M. Primary prevention mental health programs for children and adolescents: a meta-analytic review. Am J Community Psychol. 1997; 25: 115-152 Crossref PubMed Scopus (621) Google Scholar , 10 Greenberg M.T. Domitrovich C. Bumbarger B. The prevention of mental disorders in school-aged children: current state of the field. Prevention and Treatment. 2001; 4: 1-63 Google Scholar , 11 Webster-Stratton C. Taylor T. Nipping early risk factors in the bud: preventing substance abuse, delinquency, and violence in adolescence through interventions targeted at young children (0–8 years). Prev Sci. 2001; 2: 165-192 Crossref PubMed Scopus (362) Google Scholar with few recent exceptions, 12 Merry S. McDowell H. Hetrick S. Bir J. Muller N. Psychological and/or educational interventions for the prevention of depression in children and adolescents. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2004; PubMed Google Scholar , 13 Horowitz J.L. Garber J. The prevention of depressive symptoms in children and adolescents: a meta-analytic review. J Consult Clin Psychol. 2006; 74: 401-415 Crossref PubMed Scopus (547) Google Scholar , 14 Commission on Adolescent Depression and Bipolar DisorderPrevention of depression and bipolar disorder. in: Evans D.L. Foa E.B. Gur R.E. Treating and preventing adolescent mental health disorders What we know and what we don’t know. Oxford University Press, New York2005: 55-67 Google Scholar the evidence base for approaches to prevention of depression and/or anxiety symptoms and disorders in children and adolescents is sparse. Prevention of Depression in Children and AdolescentsAmerican Journal of Preventive MedicineVol. 32Issue 5PreviewThe articles included in this supplement to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine1–7 were developed from presentations made at a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)–supported meeting entitled: Workshop on the Prevention of Depression in Children and Adolescents, held in June 2004. NIMH, in collaboration with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), sponsored this meeting to consider extant research on prevention of depression in children and adolescents, and to discuss new opportunities for expanding the empirical base for preventive interventions. Full-Text PDF