Abstract
Investigations of many types of psychiatric disorders in infants and children begin with the convenient assumption that the condition under scrutiny exists as a distinct clinical phenomenon. The study of depression in infants and children enjoys no such position. As its relatively brief history attests, childhood depression has almost constantly found itself in the throes of a debate about whether or not it exists as a clinical syndrome at all, and if it does, how it relates to depression in adulthood.
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Trad, P.V. (1986). Developmental Psychopathology. In: Infant Depression. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8663-6_1
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