Understanding Teenage Depression: A Guide to Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management

A comprehensive guide to the diagnosis & treatment of teenage depression (TD). If ignored or poorly treated, clinical TD can be a devastating illness for adolescents & their families. Drawing on her many years of experience as a psychiatrist working with teenagers, Empfield answers the questions that parents & teens have about depression, providing detailed information on: how depression is diagnosed; identifying the different types of depression; which teenagers are most at risk; assessing the risk of suicide; the drugs used to treat TD -- what they are & how they work; when a teenager needs to be hospitalized for depression; & the effect of depression on other teenage problems. Includes case studies as well as first-person accounts from teenagers.