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Luby, Joan L.; Heffelfinger, Amy; Koenig-McNaught, Amy L.; Brown, Kathy; Spitznagel, Edward – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2004
Objective: Childhood depression is widely underrecognized in primary health care settings. This phenomenon appears to increase with younger age. Evidence has been provided for a valid depressive syndrome among preschool children. Based on the need for the earliest possible identification of depression, the development of a brief screening measure…
Descriptors: Primary Health Care, Psychiatry, Psychopathology, Identification