Depression in Children and Young People

Last updated 6 October 2021

This collection of Research Digests about Depression contains content from ACAMH’s two main academic outputs the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

You can download a PDF of these Digests from the September 2018 edition of The Bridge.

Individual digests are presented below in date order, with the most recent first.

Which perinatal exposures confer a risk of offspring depression?
What role does genetic risk play in shaping the developmental patterns of depressive symptoms?
Chronic illness may present barriers to engaging in CBT for depression
Insufficient sleep during adolescence might pose a risk for later depression and anxiety
Utilization of peer-supported youth hotlines is on the rise
A machine learning approach identifies unique predictors of borderline personality disorder
Depressed mothers and their offspring differ in terms of health risk profiles and allostatic load
PCIT-ED seems to improve parenting behaviour and affect towards children with depression
Interventions for reducing loneliness seem effective in young people
Young people’s ‘neural fingerprints’ might permit a precision-medicine approach to depression
Depressed young people have lower vitamin B12 and vitamin D levels than their peers
Depressed mood, inattention and worry might influence the risk for other symptoms in youth
Are school-based interventions for depression and anxiety symptoms effective?
Presenting as ‘in control’ may mask risk for alcohol misuse in adolescents with symptoms of BPD
Persistent peer victimization is associated with differential effects on cortisol production between boys and girls
Boys and girls show different vulnerabilities to maternal postnatal depression
Are social networking sites contributing to depression and anxiety symptoms in young people?
Is parental educational status to blame for academic problems in children?
Mindfulness-based interventions improve depression and anxiety outcomes in youths
Sleep problems in preschoolers predict depression and anxiety severity
Clinical characteristics of adolescents referred for treatment of depressive disorders
Social connectedness and suicidal thoughts and behaviors among adolescents
mHealth ineffective for depression prevention
Moving towards prevention as the intervention of choice for depression in children and adolescents
The overlap between low self-esteem and anxiety/depression in CAMHS
Determining the “IMPACT” of therapeutics for depression requires an adaptive trial design
The trajectories of depressive symptoms expressed in early childhood differ between boys and girls
Genetic factors influence the relationship between the home environment and onset of depressive symptom
Offspring of mothers with depression show asymmetric frontal brain activity
Depression is highly prevalent but under-reported in children with ADHD
Accelerated cortical thinning correlates with early signs of depression
Reporting of depression symptoms in children with ADHD: do parents know best?
Children’s Understanding of Depression

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