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Efficacy and safety of SSRIs in the treatment of childhood depression Background: Just as our concepts of childhood have changed, so have our concepts of childhood problems. It was only in the late 1980s that our understanding of childhood depression began a far reaching transformation. Before this, childhood depression was viewed as very rare, different from adult depression, and not amenable to treatment with antidepressants. A shift in theory, and consequently practice, then took place as Influential academics claimed that childhood depression was more common than previously thought (8-20% of children and adolescents), resembled adult depression, and was amenable to treatment with antidepressants (often resulting in antidepressants Becoming a first line treatment). Childhood depression has become a popular Notion, reflecting the broader cultural changes that have taken place in our view of childhood and its problems. "These days we are as likely to use medicalised terminology to describe children's feelings (such as depressed)...

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