Childhood and adolescent depression
Source 1: Bhatia, Shashi K., and Subhash C. Bhatia. “Childhood and adolescent depression.” Depression 100 (2007): 53.
The authors of the article are S.K Bhatia and S.C. Bhatia. S.K Bhatia is a professor of psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry. S.C. Bhatia is professor and vice chair of the department of Psychiatry, Creighton university. This affirms that the authors are credible hence the article is credible.
According to S.K Bhatia and S.C Bhatia, major depression affects 3 to 5% of children and adolescents. This negatively affects growth and development, school performance, and interpersonal relationships. When unmonitored, depression can lead to suicide. Biomedical and psychosocial factors are some of the risk factors for childhood and adolescent depression. Juvenile depression may present itself in various different forms. Children younger than 7 years may not be able to describe their internal mood state. They may express distress through unclear symptoms anger, hostile behavior, poor concentration and anxiety (pg. 74-78).
Source 2: Hamilton, Max. “A rating scale for depression.” Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 23.1 (1960): 56.
This is a publication by max Hamilton from the Department of Psychiatry, University of Leeds. The author is therefore credible.
There is a room for improvement in scales used for measuring symptoms of mental disorder.it is important to put into consideration the variables such as depressed mood, suicide, work and loss of interest, retardation, agitation, Gastro-intestinal symptoms and general somatic symptoms. It is important to have two assessors independently evaluating a patient at the same interview so as to obtain the data for calculation inter-physician reliability (Hamilton, pg. 58).
Source 3: “NIMH » Depression Basics”. Nimh.Nih.Gov, 2018, https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/depression/index.shtml. Accessed 7 Dec 2018.
This is a publication by the National Institute of Mental Health under the U.S Department of Health and Human Services. The source is therefore credible.
Depression is a mood disorder that brings about symptoms affecting how one feels, thinks, and handles daily activities. The different types of depression are major depression, persistent depressive disorder, perinatal depression, seasonal affective disorder, and psychotic depression. The treatment of depression can be done by medication such as antidepressants, psychotherapy and brain stimulation therapies.
Clark, Hilary, ed. Depression and narrative: Telling the dark. SUNY Press, 2008.
According to Clark, portrayals of the relationship between self and psychological symptoms in first person narratives and clearly varied. These variations are attributed to the symptoms themselves .This does not only depend on their severity but also the nature by which they occur (pg. 15). Some of the factors influencing how illness narratives portray the relation between self and symptoms have been explained. These are not obviously attributable to variations in the kind of symptoms experienced.