title: [Depression in adolescents].
abstract: After having believed that depression is a normal feature of adolescence, most practitioners discriminate between the moderate, transient, depressive feelings, which are indeed part of the normal process of adolescence, and the various forms of true depression that may occur at this age. The problem of "depressive equivalents" is probably the most studied. Our opinion, based on a clinical and psychodynamic viewpoint, is that four types of depression can be distinguished in adolescence: anxious-depressive reactions, inferiority depression, abandonment depression and melancholic depression. These four conditions share a basic depressive reaction typified by a psychomotor slowness and "freezing" of feelings, ideas and motions.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Les dépressions à l'adolescence.