Childhood Depression: Interpersonal Interactions and Depressive Phenomena

Irving Philips, M.D.Authors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 136, Number 4B

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4b.511

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The author discusses the impact of parental disability, particularly parental depression, on children. Depression in children, which takes differentforms according to the child’s developmental level, may mirror or be a response to similar affect in a parent. Clinicians need to take note of the relationship between child and caretaker and of the various manifestations of childhood depression in order to avoid underdiagnosing this disorder.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 136 • Number 4B • April 1979

Pages: 511 - 515

PubMed: 426133

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Received: 17 October 1977

Revised: 23 January 1978

Accepted: 21 March 1978

Published in print: April 1979

Published online: 24 April 2020

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Irving Philips, M.D.

Dr. Philips is Professor of Psychiatry and Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, Calif. 94122.

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Childhood Depression: Interpersonal Interactions and Depressive Phenomena

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