Depression in adolescent girls : science and prevention

"Compared to boys, adolescent girls face an increased risk of depression and repeated recurrences throughout adulthood. This unique volume presents a comprehensive multidisciplinary framework for understanding how girls become vulnerable to mood disorders and how that vulnerability might be red...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Costanzo, Philip R. (Author), Garber, Judy (Author), Strauman, Timothy J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : The Guilford Press , c2011
Series:Duke series in child development and public policy
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Depression in adolescent girls: challenges for basic science and prevention
  • 2. Contributions from epidemiology
  • 3. New behavior-genetic approaches to depression in childhood and adolescence: gene-environment interplay and the role of cognitions
  • 4. Integrating affective, biological, and cognitive vulnerability models to explain the gender difference in depression: the ABC Model and its implications for intervention
  • 5. The public costs of depression in adolescent girls
  • 6. The role of rumination in promoting and preventing depression in adolescent girls
  • 7. A contextual model of gender differences in the development of depression after the death of a parent
  • 8. Stress, coping, socialization, and goals: a self-regulation perspective on gender and depression in adolescence
  • 9. Prevention of depression in youth: sex differences in effects
  • 10. Primary prevention of secondary depression: indirect prevention of depression in girls by treating or preventing primary obesity or insomnia
  • 11. Preventing girls' depression during the transition to adolescence
  • 12. Preventive intervention in families of depressed parents: a family cognitive-behavioral intervention