Is there an epidemic of child or adolescent depression?

By E. Jane Costello, Alaattin Erkanli, A. Angold. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 2006

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Psychological Distress in Refugee Children: A Systematic Review (2011, background): “of diagnostic interviews for depression in the USA and the United Kingdom reported a 5.7% prevalence rate among a representative sample of children aged up to 18 years ( Costello et al. 2006 ).”
Time Period and Birth Cohort Differences in Depressive Symptoms in the U.S., 1982–2013 (2015, background): “2010 of the MMPI) have shown greater prevalence of mental health issues in the 2000s compared to the 1980s while others (Costello et al. 2006) have not.”
Computerised Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for the Prevention and Treatment of Depression and Anxiety in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review (2010, background): “Costello et al. (2006) reviewed 26 epidemiological studies and concluded that at any one time 2.8% of children under the age of 13 suffer from depression, rising to 5.9% for girls and 4.6% for boys aged 13–18.”
Peer Contagion in Child and Adolescent Social and Emotional Development (2011, background): “Peer contagion of emotional distress in children and adolescents is an especially important topic of research, given that the experience of depression is increasing (Costello et al. 2006), and its observed continuity from adolescence through adulthood is relatively high (Garber 2000).”
Positive education: positive psychology and classroom interventions (2009, neutral): “…of depression, increased awareness of depression, or methodological problems such as memory biases (see Costello et al. , 2006), virtually all investigators are dismayed by how much depression there is now and how mostly it goes untreated (Twenge & Nolen-Hoeksema, 2002; Costello et al. , 2006).”