Adolescent Depression: A Guide for Parents (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)
Description
Until recently, psychologists and psychiatrists believed that adolescents did not experience true depression in the way that adults do. Medical experts now realize that young people can and do get seriously depressed, and that depression and bipolar disorder may be more serious and more difficult to treat in adolescents than in adults. Depression may also be harder to recognize as an illness, both because moodiness is considered universal among teenagers and because parents often resist having their child treated for a psychiatric illness that they think―and often hope―will be "just a ...
ISBN(s)
0801870658, 9780801870651
