The Depressed Child and Adolescent

• List of contributors; Preface Ian Goodyer; 1. Historical aspects of mood and its disorders in young people William Ll. Parry-Jones; 2. The development of emotional intelligence Mark Meerum Terwogt and Hedy Stegge; 3. Developmental precursors of depression: the child and the social environment Elizabeth McCauley, Karen Pavlidis and Kim Kendall; 4. Physiological processes and the development of childhood and adolescent depression Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Jessica J. Auth, Anne C. Petersen and Bruce E. Compas; 5. Childhood depression: clinical phenomenology and classification Israel Kolvin and Hartwin Sadowski; 6. The epidemiology of depression in children and adolescents Adrian Angold and Elizabeth J. Costello; 7. Family-genetic aspects of juvenile affective disorders Michael Strober; 8. Life events: their nature and effects Ian M. Goodyer; 9. Adolescent depression: neuroendocrine aspects Stephen Sokolov and Stan Kutcher; 10. Suicidal behaviour in adolescents Erik Jan de Wilde, Ineke C. W. M. Kienhorst and René F. W. Diekstra; 11. Psychopharmacology of depressive states in childhood and adolescence Eberhard Schulz and Helmut Remschmidt; 12. The psychotherapeutic management of major depressive and dysthymic disorders in childhood and adolescence: issues and prospects Maria Kovacs and Joel T. Sherrill; 13. Natural history of mood disorders in children and adolescents Richard Harrington and Bernadka Dubicka; Index.

'Ian Goodyer has assembled an internationally recognized group of researchers as authors … In the resulting tour de force, we are taken from an exposition of the development of emotional behavior and understanding, through the contributions of temperament, attachment and personality development, to depressive vulnerability. … Each chapter contains a depth of information not found in usual textbooks and a subtlety of understanding that only experts of international standing who are reviewing the areas of their own research can provide ... this book documents, with references, the great strides child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology have made in the past 30 years.' The New England Journal of Medicine