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Clinical Depression In Adolescents: A Case Study

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Depression can happen among anyone, however, is very common in adolescent. According to the Mayo Clinic depression “is a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. Also called major depression, major depressive disorder or clinical depression, it affects how you feel, think and behave and can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems” (Staff, 2014). Conflicting consequences of depression in pregnant adolescents include threats to a mother’s well-being, such as suicidal behavior.
One study showed that Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) during pregnancy in adolescent mothers and to determine its affiliation with socio-demographic characteristics, obstetric history and psychosocial variables in Brazil. …show more content…

One study found that to determine pregnancy planning and emotional readiness, participants only needed to respond to four questions ‘‘When did you want to get pregnant?’’, ‘‘I have been trying to get pregnant’’, ‘‘How did you feel emotionally?’’, and ‘‘I am ready to have a baby’’. These four questions are very important to find if adolescents is emotionally ready. (Phipps, 2012)
The study also looked into risk factors “we examined the following potential risk factors: inadequate prenatal care, delayed first prenatal care visit, no prenatal vitamin use prior to first prenatal care visit, recent smoking, drinking since pregnant, recent drug use, and self-reported depression” (Phipps, 2012, p. 1822). A majority of these adolescents missed their first prenatal care appointment and went between thirteen and twenty weeks, and a majority smoked, and used alcohol and/or drug use. However, a majority of adolescent’s according to the study are ready to be parents. (Phipps, …show more content…

Research can always use more research, seeing as how the world is changing every day. I do not think that adolescents realize what they are doing to their bodies when they become pregnant and the stress on the fetus as well. Depression and stress both set in from not only themselves for becoming pregnant, the people around them such as family, friend, the father and his family and so on. Being an adolescent is hard enough, more research needs to be done on not only how adolescents stress during pregnancy, but depression especially, and stress leads in to

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