depression (psychology)

Offers advice to parents and other adults on how to recognize the difference between ordinary teenage angst and depression in adolescent girls,identifying some of the reasons why girls are especially vulnerable to depression and suicide in the early teen years, and including case studies and activities.

The author uses his own experiences with depression to examine the illness in personal, cultural, and scientific terms.

Offers parents, educators, and health-care professionals advice for identify adolescent depression and discusses how it can be treated, controlled, and prevented.

Explores depression from the point of view of the friends and family of the person who is suffering, focusing on their needs and feelings. Discusses therapy options for those who are close to the sufferer, and ways they can help the sufferer without becoming depressed themselves.

Presents practical information and further resources on depression, covering its types and causes, the experience of depression, treatment, co-occurring disorders, suicide, and depression-related research.

Presents information for parents on depression in adolescents, covering symptoms, syndromes, diagnosis, the DSM, medications, psychotherapy, causes, related disorders, the role of the family, and planning for emergencies. Includes an annotated resource list.

Emily, a little girl with childhood depression, explains how it feels to be depressed, and discusses what she and others are doing to help her manage her feelings.

Through time travel, a high school student has the opportunity to relive a day and stop a friend from going on a killing spree at school.

Discusses depression and suicide, offering options and showing positive actions teens can take to alleviate or at least better understand their negative emotions.

Shy eleven-year-old Nita feels lost when her mother returns from a visit to their home country Thailand and plunges into depression, but then Nita miraculously begins to blossom and her shyness disappears.