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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
The Guilford Press ,
c2011
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| 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