Preventing Symptoms Of Depression By Teaching Adolescents

Depression in general is an extremely damaging illness and can, of course, become even worse when disregarded. Thus, adults brushing aside behavioral changes and problems in teenagers lead many of them to attempting suicide. In fact, the third leading cause of death for fifteen to twenty-four-year-olds, according to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), is suicide. For almost the entirety of their childhood, adolescents are expected to trust in adults, such as teachers or parents, to recognize their hardships. Teaching them about their own mind and surrounding them in a supporting environment would likely have a positive effect on adolescents. ("7/5 Mental

Throughout the article the author gives adequate examples to support his ideas, his use of studies and research that were performed by other psychologists was one of the strong points. Because his research was conducted efficiently it allowed him to focus on developing a section to talk about individuals who were diagnosed as a child allowed the article to be more interesting to read. My reasoning for believing his research was done well is that he gave both his side of the argument as well as others. For instance, when he states how people don 't grow out of ADHD they grow out of the structured environment that they once had. He supports this by bringing in information from Stephen Faraone a clinical psychologist and psychiatry professor at the State

For the first article, the hypothesis of the experiment is that people will become more conscientious, emotionally stable, and agreeable as they grow older, but there will be temporary dips in agreeableness to experience, conscientiousness, and agreeableness during adolescents. This experiment consisted of two different samples, one consisting of mostly people from the USA and the other consisting of mostly people from Russia. The American sample had around 16,000 children aged 3-20 years old, the participants were chosen because their parents anonymously volunteered on the website “personalitylab.org.” The Russian sample consisted of 1996 children aged 2-18 years old (48% of them were female), the participants’ parents

The program that will be implemented is the Resourceful Adolescent Program (RAP). The RAP is characterized as a universal prevention of depression program that when implemented under real-world conditions in a school setting, has been found to be beneficial for high-school students (Harnett & Dadds, 2004). In addition, the RAP is designed to foster psychological resilience and prevent depression in adolescents aged 12-16 years (Shochet & Ham, 2012). By fostering psychological resilience and prevention of depression in adolescence, helps youth to develop coping mechanisms and resilience that will help to mitigate against the onset or severity of

However, from examining the text, I have learned that there are ways to test for depression. From this, my reaction was very surprised. This article definitely opened my eyes to more information on the topic of teenage depression. The article has given me the impression that depression is even worse than I thought, which would be agreeable between Dr. Chung and Dr. Frances. It makes me wonder how many ways one can discover they have the mental illness, and how they can benefit from screening or other different methods. I actually greatly admire this piece or literature, as it is very informing. As mentioned before, I, the reader, am left wanting to gather more information about the subject and I found myself researching on my own. This insightful article has given me excellent knowledge that I will be able to use even in the

One of the programs specifically targeted for adolescents in school is The Penn Resiliency program (PRP). It is a Cognitive Behavioral (CB) intervention for young adolescents that in is intended for delivery in schools. PRP found that the program significantly reduces depressive symptoms for at least 12 months post intervention (Gillham et al., 2012). The study for this program was successful in showing that the program can be delivered in a group setting lead by educators or regular people from the community. “PRP includes 2 major components. The first component is based on CB therapy for depression, students learn about connection between interpretations and feelings and behaviors” (Gillham et al., 2012). In the second component, students

This book provides a good understanding of the teenage mind, how so many parents assumes that their children are definitely facing a psychological disorder when it can just be adolescences and their hormones are giving them mixed signals and they are not behaving the way they are supposed to. This novel also helps us figure out that there can be so many other psychological disorders that are faced by many teenagers and they never speak about it. This book is very helpful for the adulthood as well as the teenagers.

The good news is also that the increasing societal awareness and research has developed effective treatment options that can be implemented into a school setting. Cognitive-behavioral therapy provides the basis for most of these intervention style treatments, based on the assumption that “dysfunctional thinking can be changed and, in turn, lead to symptomatic relief and improvement in functioning” (Craske, 2010, p. 49). Cognitive-behavioral therapy focuses on overriding the automatic mal-adaptive pathways of depressed thought, or “functions at the conscious level to effect changes in the preconscious level” (Craske, 2010, p. 49). Essentially, it gives the depressed person strategies to counter the initial processing of the depressed brain

Lifespan psychology involves the study of changes that take place over the course of a human’s entire lifespan by examining how people change and how they may remain the same throughout the various stages of life. One of the most interesting aspects of our development occurs during the time of adolescence as it defines the transition between childhood and adulthood. While progressing through adolescence, we develop physically, cognitively, emotionally, and socially. Most people may be able to move through adolescence with little to no disruptions along the way, however, for others it’s not quite as simple. As it stands, statistics show that there are also a fair number of individuals who encounter major disruptions during their adolescent development

Studies that evaluate universal school-based programs, have been known to provide effectiveness in determining proper treatments (Tomyn, Tyszkiewicz, Richardson, and Colla, 2016). Up to 50% of all depression cases had signs in their adolescence. (Kessler et al.,2007 as cited in Tomyn et al., 2016) Depression is a problem world-wide. In many cases people are not treated for depression until adulthood making it more difficult (Gladstone and Beardslee 2009). The purpose of universal interventions is to gain knowledge to strengthen protective factors and reduce risk factors (Tomyn et. al.,2016). In this study, they are trying to measure how the program will positively or negatively affect adolescents. As well as to see the effectiveness of the program for adolescents already experiencing symptoms of depression (Tomyn et al.,2016).

The results of the study came from the school mental health program (SMHP), a valuable part of the educational system worldwide. For more accurate results, the selection of schools was random. “According to their self-report, the students in the program in comparison to those not in the program were significantly better adjusted to the school and teachers; opined that they were capable of coping with issues with better self-esteem” (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov).

In this scenario, hundreds of researchers conducted a study on the transition of women’s mental health as they advance in age. Since 1996, these researchers have checked in on the recruited sample of women every two years and solicited crucial data from their personal records. As a result, the researchers found that mental health gets better from the age of 16 years to 20 then 37 years. Development psychology studies how people change and grow over a given period of time. This growth can be emotional, physical, social, perceptual or intellectual. In this case, the study revolved around the emotional development that meant women became more self-aware as they grew older and learnt from experiences like poor relationships. Professor Lee said “Women develop a lot more self-confidence as they get older and a greater belief that 'stuff happens, but I can cope with

The “Adolescent Depression Knowledge Questionnaire” was administered to 4,299 students as a pretest for the program. Two years later, they took the same test to evaluate the effectiveness of it. Although the study was deemed inconclusive due to some of tests being lost in the mail as well as the number of absences at school, there was a small test grade increase between the pretests and posttests. However, this number was not statistically significant (Cox et al., 2007). Since the primary intervention aims to prevent the disease before it occurs, being equipped with knowledge through these programs would be the most effective tool in decreasing risks of

Adolescence is a stage of maturation between childhood and adulthood that denotes the period from the beginning of puberty to maturity. However, many conflicting opinions are raised about weather such a stage of childhood is influenced by stress, depression, and suicide rate. Some people support the optimistic view that says that adolescence is not a period of storm and stress. Others, including me, support an opposite pessimistic view which characterizes adolescence as a period of stress and inner turmoil. Unfortunately, it has been recently proved that depression is a growing problem in today 's society and a major contributing factor for a multitude of adolescent problems. This is because , as research indicates, adolescent depression

Depression a word we’re familiar with especially when it comes to adults, we know adults get depress and we understand the reasons, with the high demands in life it’s not uncommon to get lost in the shuffle. Depression in adult is something we have known for many years, but what has surprised many of us is that adolescents also get depressed. I myself still don’t fully understand the reasons why or how this happens. I see it very often adolescent coming in to the ER because they are depressed and want to hurt themselves, and each and every single time I’m shock. What could be so bad in their lives that would make them think they have no way out? This is the reason why I choice this topic, I want to learn more of how this disease affects so many children and teens and what we can do to stop it.