Amazon.com description: Product Description: Depression in children and adolescents can be a chronic, debilitating condition, with major impact on family, social and intrapsychic life. Early detection facilitates early treatment, a key to preserving a child's continued growht and development. The presentation of depression can be complicated by co-morbid diagnoses, psychosocial stressors within the family, developmental differences and medical illnesses. This volume seeks to span the current research in etiology, biology, phenomenology and treatment of depression in children and adolescents. With contributions from several experts in this field, this book covers topics such as theories of development and etiology of depression, medical illness and depression, depression and other psychiatric conditions and treatment approaches to depression.