title: Developmental perspectives in child and adolescent depressive symptoms in a community sample.
abstract: This developmental study provides some normative data on the distribution of depressive symptoms in 210 children and adolescents in three different age groups (8, 12, and 17 years) from a nonclinically referred sample. The Child Assessment Schedule and other instruments were used. Studying depression from a dimensional point of view, the authors found withdrawal, pessimism, horrible dreams, and suicidal ideation and tendency in the different age groups to be closely related to depressive symptoms.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Missouri-Columbia 65201.
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Kashani
authors.forename: T K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Rosenberg
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Reid
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010552:Personality Assessment; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D002666:Psychology, Child; D013732:Test Anxiety Scale