| Depression
is a serious health problem that impacts feelings, thoughts
and actions, and can appear as a physical illness. It is
a mood disorder that involves a child’s body, mood,
and thoughts. It can affect and disrupt eating, sleeping,
or thinking patterns. Treatment is necessary and many times
crucial to recovery. On this Informed Choices special, kid’s
behavioral health will be explored, focusing on depression
in adolescents and the often-controversial use of antidepressant
medications in treatment. Kids over 10 years of age will
be the primary focus of this discussion. Topic areas will
include signs and symptoms of depression, determining if
a child is depressed, treatment options, causes, and finding
the right therapist and/or physician for behavioral health
problems. The panel consists of a child therapist, a child
and adolescent psychiatrist, and two parents whose children
have been diagnosed with depression.
KIDS AND DEPRESSION RESOURCE GUIDE
(973) 233-9886
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