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Depression in Infants

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Handbook of Depression in Children and Adolescents

Part of the book series: Issues in Clinical Child Psychology ((ICCP))

Abstract

Since 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) (American Psychiatric Association, 1980) has included criteria for diagnosing depression in infants. These criteria are substantially the same as the criteria used to describe depression in adults. If the editions of the DSM reflect an accurate evolution in the nosology of psychopathology, the merging of diagnostic criteria in infants and adults may be construed to mean that depression in these two widely disparate age groups is now viewed as being fundamentally the same disorder.

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