title: Treatment for depression in children and adolescents.
abstract: In the management of depressive states in children and adolescents a distinction should be drawn between: General antidepressive treatment, as exemplified by the attitude and approach adopted by the physician and by close reference persons towards the depressive child. Indirect antidepressive treatment consisting in: counselling of the parents or treatment for them (psychotherapy, psychotropic medication), family therapy, or admission of the child to a home; learning and teaching hygiene: preventing the child from becoming overtaxed as a result of his difficulty in learning and his impaired performance, recourse to conditioning procedures, demotion to a lower class at school, or transference to another school; initial and follow-up psychotherapy or cognitive therapeutic procedures in cases of 'endogenous' depression. Direct antidepressive treatment (sleep deprival, phototherapy, antidepressants).
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000928:Antidepressive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D002648:Child; D003071:Cognition; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003376:Counseling; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy; D006801:Humans; D010290:Parents
chemical_list: D000928:Antidepressive Agents