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What are the Risk Factors for Childhood and Adolescent Depression?
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What are the Risk Factors for Childhood and Adolescent Depression? PS51010a Extended Essay Name: Jackie Tilston Date: 30 March 2001 Popular psychology tends to blame childhood and adolescent depression on factors such as experience of divorce. In reality however the risk factors for depression across these ages are much more complicated. There are many perspectives that have been used to address childhood and adolescent depression, including developmental, psychobiological, and psychodynamic approaches. There are therefore a number of different levels of explanation and many specific explanations within each level. Although not all explanations can be discussed here, it is the aim of this essay to extract as many of the risk factors as possible that overlap at least one of these levels. To arrive at as full a description as possible it is necessary to ask why it is useful to analyse what causes depression in children and adolescents, both theoretically and practically....
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