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For years, debate existed concerning whether it was possible for preadolescent children to experience depression. Thought to be primarily a mood dysfunction that manifested in late adolescence to adulthood, children were viewed by experts to be incapable of experiencing many of the phenomena associated with clinical depression. Symptomatic markers, such as mood disturbance, were viewed as being part of the normal progression of childhood development and, therefore, were attributed to “childhood moodiness” or “adolescent turmoil” (Baker, 2006; Rochlin, 1959). In the 1980s, enough substantial evidence had accumulated to suggest that young children can indeed suffer from this problem. It was also determined that children who evince depression exhibit symptoms paralleling those experienced in adolescence and adulthood. Thus, the myth that depression is “masked” in the juvenile population was refuted (Milling, 2001). Since then, research in the area of childhood depression has flourished; however, questions about its nature, causes, and treatment remain.

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Fodstad, J.C., Matson, J.L. (2010). Major Depression. In: Matson, J. (eds) Social Behavior and Skills in Children. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0234-4_12

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