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On the edge
- Authors:
- MIND. Hull and East Yorkshire, (Producer)
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- (10 mins.), DVD
- Place of publication:
- London
This film tells the story of Phil how is in his final year of university and has become depressed after splitting up from his girlfriend. The short film aims to raise awareness amongst young people about what depression is, what you can do to help yourself if you are experiencing symptoms and how to help friends in distress.
Young adult depression and anxiety linked to social media use: assessment and treatment
- Authors:
- BETTMAN Joanna E., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Clinical Social Work Journal, 49(3), 2021, pp.368-379.
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Place of publication:
- New York
... with depression and anxiety and utilize a case study to illuminate the relationship between young adult depression, anxiety, and social media use. The article provides clear recommendations for the assessment and treatment of social media use in depressed and anxious young adults. (Edited publisher abstract)
Young people's narratives of depression
- Authors:
- ISSAKAINEN Mervi, HANNINEN Vilma
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Youth Studies, 19(2), 2016, pp.237-250.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article reports on findings from a study, which aimed to gain insight into young people's depression as a part of their life course by analysing written accounts of 81 young Finnish people who self-identified as having been depressed. The participants’ accounts were seen as reflecting both their actual life and their narrative interpretations of it in relation to the prevailing normative conceptions regarding youth. The accounts can be grouped into four main story types. The story type referred to as growing up on a sidetrack depicts depression as having its origins in childhood adversities that hinder the realisation of normative goals. Falling off the track depicts how a young person's life can be derailed as a result of experiences that cause or exacerbate depression. In the story missing the track, depression is intertwined with one's experience of failure in meeting normative expectations, whereas the story questioning the track features the problematisation of such expectations. The results underscore the importance of tackling different adverse conditions in childhood, adolescence and young adulthood in a timely fashion, as well as the importance of therapy, counselling and guidance, which help young people to manage difficulties and depression in their life. (Publisher abstract)
Adolescent depression as a contributing factor to the development of substance use disorders
- Author:
- TAYLOR Ozietta D.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 21(6), August 2011, pp.696-710.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This study aimed to investigate adolescent depression as a contributing factor to substance abuse. The participants were a convenience sample of African American adolescents, aged 12 to 18 years, who reside in a public housing community in Baltimore, Maryland. This sample population is characterised as adolescents from impoverished and under-served communities. An exploratory investigation of the variables linking adolescent substance abuse and depression was conducted using the ‘grounded theory’ qualitative research approach. Data collection comprised 2 phases: focus group discussions and group interview; and clinical and structured in-depth interviews. The results revealed that approximately 5% of the sample openly admitted to using drugs because they are sad, feel like a failure, lack energy
Adolescent depression and future smoking behavior: a prospective study
- Authors:
- MOON Sung Seek, MO Bonnie Choi, BASHAM Randy
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 27(6), December 2010, pp.405-422.
- Publisher:
- Springer
The aim of the study was to examine the associations between depressive symptoms and smoking in adolescents in America. The participants were 2,735 boys and 2,890 girls from the Add Health data set. The prospective analysis indicated that participants with higher depressive symptoms in Wave I were more likely to start smoking and become regular smokers in Wave II. Moreover, regression analysis found that depressive symptoms in both Waves I and II predicted current smoking status. Findings are discussed within the context of the empirical and theoretical review and implications for social work practice are considered.
Vulnerability to depression in adolescents with intellectual disabilities
- Authors:
- KIDDLE Hannah, DAGNAN Dave
- Journal article citation:
- Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, 5(1), January 2011, pp.3-8.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This paper provides a selective review of developmental risk factors relating to depression in typically developing adolescents and considers how the life experiences and the social context of adolescents with intellectual disability may increase their sensitivity to identified risk factors for depression. A number of factors are highlighted as important in the development of mental health problems including attachment, child temperament and parenting behaviour, and a number of risk factors specific to depression, including genetic vulnerability, parental depression, negative life events and peer relations. Many of these experiences are particularly prevalent in the lives of young people with intellectual disabilities. These include experience of the social stigma attached to intellectual disability, increased exposure to negative life-events, social and emotion recognition deficits, and increased rates of parental stress and associated depression. These life experiences and consequent increased susceptibility to risk factors may help explain the higher rate of depression in adolescents with intellectual disability. The authors suggest that a consideration of developmental factors
Brief report: excessive alcohol use negatively affects the course of adolescent depression: one year naturalistic follow-up study
- Authors:
- MERIRINNE Esa, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adolescence, 33(1), February 2010, pp.221-226.
- Publisher:
- Academic Press
In this study, the researchers aimed to clarify the impact of the core alcohol use phenomenon of drunkenness-oriented drinking, in terms of weekly drunkenness, on the course of adolescent unipolar depression and psychosocial functioning, in a 1 year follow-up study of depressed adolescent patients referred from schools, health care centres and social and family counselling services to adolescent psychiatric outpatient clinics in Finland. The authors conclude that excessive alcohol use (defined as weekly drunkenness) seems to negatively affect the course of depressive symptoms and, even after a year, psychosocial functioning, and that treatments designed to reduce alcohol use seem to be justified along with depression treatment, but that intervention studies are needed to evaluate the best approach.
Efficacy of antidepressants in juvenile depression: meta-analysis
- Authors:
- TSAPAKIS Evangelia M., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 192(7), July 2008, pp.10-17.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) were use in comparing responses to antidepressants, overall and by type, v. placebo in young people with depression. Thirty drug–placebo contrasts in RCTs lasting 8 weeks (median) involved 3069 participants (512 person-years) of average age 13.5 years. Meta-analysis yielded a modest pooled drug/placebo response rate ratio (NNT=8). Antidepressants of all types showed limited efficacy in juvenile depression, but fluoxetine might be more effective, especially in adolescents. Studies in children and in severely depressed, hospitalised or suicidal juvenile patients are needed, and effective, safe and readily accessible treatments for juvenile depression are urgently required.
Examining the association between parenting and childhood depression: a meta-analysis
- Authors:
- MCLEOD Bryce D., WEISZ John R., WOOD Jeffrey J.
- Journal article citation:
- Clinical Psychology Review, 27(8), December 2007, pp.986-1003.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Theoretical models argue that parenting plays a causal role in the development and maintenance of child psychological problems, but meta-analytic findings indicate that it accounts for only a minor part of the variance in child internalising and externalising problems. This meta-analysis of 45 studies extends the analysis to childhood depression and finds that parenting accounts for 8% of the variance. Various sub-dimensions of parenting have different effects, with parental hostility the most strongly associated with childhood depression. Methodological factors, particularly how parenting and childhood depression were conceptualised and measured, moderated the parenting-depression association and were partly responsible for inconsistencies in the findings. Closer attention to the precise
Cognitive-behavioral therapy for adolescent depression: a meta-analytic investigation of changes in effect-size estimates
- Authors:
- KLEIN Jesse B., JACOBS Rachel H., REINECKE Mark A.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 46(11), November 2007, pp.1403-1413.
- Publisher:
- Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
- Place of publication:
- Baltimore
Meta-analytic procedures were used to investigate whether methodological characteristics influenced mean effect sizes among 11 randomised controlled trials of cognitive behavioural therapy for adolescents suffering from unipolar depression. Cumulative meta-analyses show that the effects of CBT have declined from the large effects shown in early trials, and confidence intervals have narrowed.