The Causes, Prevention and Treatment of Adolescent Depression: A Review

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10.2991/assehr.k.211220.009How to use a DOI?

Keywords

adolescent depression; factors; disorders; treatment

Abstract

Depression is an increasingly common phenomenon among adolescents, and it is a serious mental health problem for adolescents. The objective of this study was to systematically review the causes, prevention, and treatment of adolescent depression. This study was based on a computerized search of the published articles and made a comprehensive literature summary. In particular, this review first summarizes the definition, characteristics, and prevalence of adolescent depression. The next part reviewed potential causes of adolescent depression. This part of the review focused on on predicting causes of adolescent depression from family factors, stressful negative life events, genetic vulnerability, and gender differences. Last, clinical aspects of adolescent depression are reviewed, including treatments and prevention of depression in adolescence. In short, effective treatments and prevention have been found already in treating adolescent depression. Adolescents suffering from depression become more common with different causes. Still, as long as clinicians use early intervention in adolescents with depression, the long-term burden of disease could be reduced.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jiacheng Li
AU  - Shenyu Zhou
AU  - Meifan Zhu
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/24
TI  - The Causes, Prevention and Treatment of Adolescent Depression: A Review
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 48
EP  - 54
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.009
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.009
ID  - Li2021
ER  -