Depression in adolescent girls : science and prevention /

"Compared to boys, adolescent girls face an increased risk of depression and repeated recurrences throughout adulthood. This unique volume presents a comprehensive multidisciplinary framework for understanding how girls become vulnerable to mood disorders and how that vulnerability might be red...

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Other Authors: Strauman, Timothy J., Costanzo, Philip R., Garber, Judy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Guilford Press, ©2011.
Series:Duke series in child development and public policy
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Table of Contents:
  • Depression in adolescent girls : challenges for basic science and prevention / Timothy J. Strauman, Philip R. Costanzo, and Judy Garber
  • Contributions from epidemiology / E. Jane Costello and Adrian Angold
  • New behavior-genetic approaches to depression in childhood and adolescence : gene-environment interplay and the role of cognitions / Helena M.S. Zavos ... [et al.]
  • Integrating affective, biological, and cognitive vulnerability models to explain the gender difference in depression : the ABC Model and its implications for intervention / Amy H. Mezulis ... [et al.]
  • The public costs of depression in adolescent girls / E. Michael Foster, Brigitt Heier-Leitzell, and the Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group
  • The role of rumination in promoting and preventing depression in adolescent girls / Katie McLaughlin and Susan Nolen-Hoeksema
  • A contextual model of gender differences in the development of depression after the death of a parent / Michelle Little ... [et al.]
  • Stress, coping, socialization, and goals : a self-regulation perspective on gender and depression in adolescence / Alison A. Papadakis and Timothy J. Strauman
  • Prevention of depression in youth : sex differences in effects / Judy Garber and Lindsay E. Downs
  • Primary prevention of secondary depression : indirect prevention of depression in girls by treating or preventing primary obesity or insomnia / Greg Clarke, Lynn DeBar, and Bobbi Jo Yarborough
  • Preventing girls' depression during the transition to adolescence / Jane E. Gillham and Tara M. Chaplin
  • Preventive intervention in families of depressed parents : a family cognitive-behavioral intervention / Bruce E. Compas, Gary Keller, and Rex Forehand.