In Canada and the U.S., doctors are increasingly being encouraged to try to identify depression in children and adolescents - even if they do not have obvious indications of the disease. In order to ...

Although depression in teenagers is common, primary care clinicians have lacked a reliable screening test to identify the disorder until now. Richardson and colleagues from the University of ...

In Canada and the U.S., doctors are increasingly being encouraged to try to identify depression in children and adolescents - even if they do not have obvious indications of the disease. In order to ...

The scoring results of widely used depression-screening tools should be carefully adjusted to better detect the condition in teenagers with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D), according to a new study ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Universal screening helped identify high school students at risk for suicide and made them more likely to engage ...

Our mood is influenced by many factors, including stress, illness, and even the weather. But what’s the difference between a bad case of the blues and the mental disorder known as depression?

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The PHQ-9M for teens includes four additional questions about depression and suicidal ideation. The extra ...

(Reuters Health) - Adolescents between 12 and 18 years old in the U.S. should be screened for depression, according to guidelines reaffirmed by a government-backed panel of prevention experts. "From a ...

Teens are known to be moody. For parents and doctors, it can be tricky to tell the difference between normal adolescent emotions and depression. “I think it’s harder to detect depression in ...

In the ever-evolving landscape of youth mental health, a revolutionary paradigm is emerging, centered on adolescent screening and prevention within a public health approach (Moran, M., 2022; Stiffman, ...