This timely, authoritative volume provides an integrative review of current knowledge on child and adolescent depression, covering everything from epidemiology and neurobiology to evidence-based treatment and prevention.

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This timely, authoritative volume provides an integrative review of current knowledge on child and adolescent depression, covering everything from epidemiology and neurobiology to evidence-based treatment and prevention. From foremost scientist-practitioners, the book is organized within a developmental psychopathology framework that elucidates the factors that put certain children at risk and what can be done to help. Proven intervention models are discussed in step-by-step detail, with coverage of cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, and pharmacological approaches, among others. Special topics include sex differences in depression, understanding and managing suicidality, and the intergenerational transmission of depression.

"Abela and Hankin have produced a superb volume on models of vulnerability and intervention in child and adolescent depression. Leading scholars cover key topics in a field that has exploded in the past decade. Each chapter not only critically reviews current knowledge, but also presents a developmental psychopathology perspective, making the volume unique among edited books in the field. All of the major topics in etiology, treatment, and prevention are addressed, as are such special issues as gender differences and youth suicide. Many of the chapters present original, integrative models. This highly readable book is an excellent resource for practitioners, scholars, and students alike."
-Constance Hammen, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles

"This comprehensive text is written and edited by leading experts on the etiology and treatment of depression in youth. The book provides an interdisciplinary developmental perspective, and will serve as an excellent text for graduate or advanced undergraduate seminars. Both students and research scientists at all levels will find this an invaluable resource. The editors are to be congratulated on this outstanding, major contribution to our understanding of child and adolescent depression."
-Judy Garber, PhD, Department of Psychology and Human Development, Peabody College of Vanderbilt University

Pages: 511, Size: 7" x 10"

I. Introduction and Epidemiology of Depression

1. Depression in Children and Adolescents: Causes, Treatment, and Prevention, John R. Z. Abela and Benjamin L. Hankin

2. Epidemiology of Depression in Children and Adolescents, Shelli Avenevoli, Erin Knight, Ronald C. Kessler, and Kathleen Ries Merikangas

II. Etiology of Depression

3. Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression in Children and Adolescents: A Developmental Psychopathology Perspective, John R. Z. Abela and Benjamin L. Hankin

4. A Developmental Perspective on Interpersonal Theories of Youth Depression, Karen D. Rudolph, Megan Flynn, and Jamie L. Abaied

5. Biological Vulnerability to Depression, Amélie Nantel-Vivier and Robert O. Pihl

6. New Behavioral Genetic Approaches to Depression in Childhood and Adolescence, Jennifer Y. F. Lau and Thalia C. Eley

7. Emotion Regulation and Risk for Depression, C. Emily Durbin and Daphna M. Shafir

III. Treatment of Depression

8. Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Depression during Childhood and Adolescence, Mark A. Reinecke and Golda S. Ginsburg

9. Psychopharmacological Treatment of Depression in Children and Adolescents, Eric Fombonne and Suzanne Zinck

10. Treatment of Childhood Depression: The ACTION Treatment Program, Kevin D. Stark, Jennifer Hargrave, Brooke Hersh, Michelle Greenberg, Jenny Herren, and Melissa Fisher

11. Positive Psychotherapy for Young Adults and Children, Tayyab Rashid and Afroze Anjum

12. Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Treatment and Prevention of Adolescent Depression, Jami F. Young and Laura Mufson

IV. Prevention of Depression

13. Preventing Depression in Early Adolescence: The Penn Resiliency Program, Jane E. Gillham, Steven M. Brunwasser, and Derek R. Freres

14. Integrating Individual and Whole-School Change Approaches in the Prevention of Depression in Adolescents, Susan H. Spence

15. Positive Youth Development Programs: An Alternative Approach to the Prevention of Depression in Children and Adolescents, Chad McWhinnie, John R. Z. Abela, Nora Hilmy, and Ilyan Ferrer

V. Special Populations

16. Sex Differences in Child and Adolescent Depression: A Developmental Psychopathological Approach, Benjamin L. Hankin, Emily Wetter, and Catherine Cheely

17. Children of Depressed Mothers: Implications for the Etiology, Treatment, and Prevention of Depression in Children and Adolescents, Sherryl H. Goodman and Erin Tully

18. Suicidal Behavior in Youth, Kimberly A. Van Orden, Tracy K. Witte, Edward A. Selby, Theodore W. Bender, and Thomas E. Joiner, Jr.

19. Child Abuse and Neglect and the Development of Depression in Children and Adolescents, Kate L. Harkness and Margaret N. Lumley

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